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The important and burgeoning city of KHON KAEN , 188km northeast of Khorat, has a good museum, markets and shops, and makes a decent resting point on the Bangkok-Nong Khai rail line. Crucially, it also has both a Laos consulate and a Vietnamese consulate, the only ones outside Bangkok. In keeping with its status as a university town, Khon Kaen has several fine collections in its museum (daily 8.30am-4.30pm; B10), including Bronze Age pots from Ban Chiang, Buddha sculptures, and local folk art. The museum is two blocks north of the bus station on Thanon Lung Soon Rachakarn. The cavernous Prathamakant Local Goods Centre (daily 8am-8.30pm) at the southern end of town at 81 Thanon Ruen Rom stocks hundreds of gorgeous mut mee cotton and silk weaves ( mut mee is the northeastern method of tie-dying bundles of cotton thread before hand-weaving which produces geometrical patterns on a coloured base), as well as clothes, furnishings, triangular axe pillows, khaen pipes and jewellery. To get to Prathamakant from the north part of town, take green local bus #6 from anywhere on Thanon Na Muang.
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