Champasak Palace
The Champasak Palace is a magnificent building in the south Lao city of Pakse , which is now used as a hotel .
The architecturally unusual palace is located on the northern edge of the city on the banks of the Xedon River near the Russian Bridge and Wat Tham Fai (Wat Phabat) and is the largest building in Pakse.
The building was built from 1968 by order of Boun Oum , last prince of the dissolved Kingdom of Champasak and Laotian Prime Minister 1960 to 1962, in the French-Southeast Asian colonial style. Prince Boun Oum planned a residence with more than 1000 rooms, but had to flee to France before the building was completed due to the Communist Pathet Lao coming to power in 1974/75, where he died a few years later. The palace became state property and was largely completed by the ruling Lao People's Revolutionary Party to be used occasionally for state and party events.
In the 1990s, the building was sold to a Thai tourism company, which completed the palace , carried out extensive renovations and renovations, including the installation of a glass exterior elevator , and finally opened the Champasak Palace Hotel .
literature
- Daniel White: Frommer's Cambodia & Laos. P. 311.
- Jock O'Tailan: Footprint Laos. P. 221.
Coordinates: 15 ° 7 ′ 20 ″ N , 105 ° 48 ′ 22 ″ E