Ragunda Valley has the only Royal Thai Pavilion of its kind outside Thailand!

The Royal Thai Pavilion in Utanede, Ragunda is amazingly unique. Nearly 100 years after the visit by the Thai King Chulalongkorn Rama V in 1897, Thai representatives decided together with Ragunda to honour the king’s visit through erecting a spectacular memorial building right in the Swedish birch tree forest.

Together with representatives from the Thai Embassy in Stockholm, Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) and other Thai participants, Ragunda Municipality and Tourism Board (Destination Ragundadalen) would like to continue to jointly work together to promote the relationship between Sweden and Thailand here in Ragunda.

- Our vision is to take the next step together with Thai participants and the local people to discuss and promote further development of the area around the Thai Pavilion. The close cooperation between the persons living here and our Thai participants, (such as the Association for the memory of King Chulalongkorn (FCM)) is of utmost importance as it is precisely through local knowledge that we can know and keep this history alive. Says Åsa Lind Chong, CEO- Destination Ragundadalen.

On Friday 23 October 2015 King Chulalongkorn will be honoured in many places around the world. The municipality of Ragunda together with Destination Ragundadalen and FCM arrange a memorial ceremony and invite the public to attend. We would be particularly pleased to see attendance from persons who have participated from the beginning in the development of the area and hereby invitate such persons to attend the  ceremony and following lunch.

- Increased participation can strengthen the local area and the cooperation between not only members of the various organisations but also with the local inhabitants can further meaningful development in the area. I believe that there are a number of people locally who would welcome the invitation to participate through sharing of their knowledge and in combination with Thai participants we can accordingly offer the visitor an experience out of the ordinary”. Says Gun Marie Persson, Destination Ragundadalen.