Phu Phra Bat Buabok ( th, วนอุทยานในภูพระบาทบัวบก) is a

forest park A forest park is a park whose main theme is its forest of trees. Forest parks are found both in the mountains and in the urban environment. Examples Chile * Forest Park, Santiago China *Gongqing Forest Park, Shanghai * Mufushan National Fores ...

Ban Phue District Ban Phue (, ) is a district (''amphoe'') in the northwestern part of Udon Thani province, northeastern Thailand. Geography Neighboring districts are (from the north clockwise) Sangkhom, Pho Tak, Tha Bo, and Sakhrai of Nong Khai province, Phe ...

Udon Thani Province Udon Thani province ( th, อุดรธานี, ) is one of Thailand's seventy-six provinces (''changwat'') which lies in Isan#Administrative divisions, upper northeastern Thailand, also called Isan. It is bordered by the provinces of Nong K ...

, northeast

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

. Named after two Buddha footprints carved into rocks in the

Lan Xang existed as a unified kingdom from 1353 to 1707. For three and a half centuries, Lan Xang was one of the largest kingdoms in Southeast Asia. The meaning of the kingdom's name alludes to the power of the kingship and formidable war machine of the ea ...

style, the park is on a disconnected

sandstone Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains. Sandstones comprise about 20–25% of all sedimentary rocks. Most sandstone is composed of quartz or feldspar (both silicates) ...

hill in the western area of the

Phu Phan mountains The Phu Phan mountains ( th, ทิวเขาภูพาน, , ) are a range of hills dividing the Khorat Plateau of the Isan region of Thailand into two basins: the northern Sakhon Nakhon Basin, and the southern Khorat Basin. The silhouette ...

. The hill tops at elevation, and extends in the north–south direction and in the east–west direction. Three major kinds of forest are found at the hill: dry

dipterocarp Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 16 genera and about 695 known species of mainly tropical lowland rainforest trees. The family name, from the type genus ''Dipterocarpus'', is derived from Greek (''di'' = two, ''pteron'' = wing and ''karpos'' = fru ...

forest at the foothills, mixed

deciduous In the fields of horticulture and Botany, the term ''deciduous'' () means "falling off at maturity" and "tending to fall off", in reference to trees and shrubs that seasonally shed leaves, usually in the autumn; to the shedding of petals, aft ...

forest in the plain surrounding the hill, and dry evergreen forest on the hill itself. The park covers an area of of the Pa Kua Num Forest Reserve. It was officially gazetted on 20 February 1996. of the area form the

Phu Phra Bat Historical Park Phu Phra Bat ( th, ภูพระบาท, ) is a historical park in Ban Phue District, Udon Thani Province, Thailand. The park's distinguishing feature is its unusual rock formations around which religious shrines have been constructed. Some f ...

, established in 1981, covering the 81 cultural sites on the hill at the rock outcrops. The forest park together with the historical park have been on the tentative list of future

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s since 2004.UNESCO World Heritage tentative list entry
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National Park, Wildlife and Plant Conservation Department
Forest parks of Thailand Phu Phan Mountains Protected areas established in 1996 Tourist attractions in Udon Thani province 1996 establishments in Thailand {{UdonThani-geo-stub

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