Kalasin

         Known as the "Land of Black Soil   and Abundant Water "

    Fa Daet Song Yang

        This large ancient town  of the Dvaravati period (9 th -11th centuries), surrounded by an earth embankment and double moats, is located at Ban Sema in Tambon Nong Pan,Komalasai district,19 km. from the provincial town.

        The  town's  plan as photographed from the air is similar in shape to a sema or a boundary marker  so it  is   sometimes called Muang Sema. Fifteen ancient monuments have been excavated by Fine Arts Department ,the most important of which is Phra That Yaku  where the old Dvaravati -style base can be seen. However , the monument itself has been renovated in a new style.

        A large number of stone  boundary markers  have been discovered. they bear carvings of Buddha's life  story and others.  some of them have been removed to the Khon Kaen National Museum; others are kept at Phochai Semaram Temple in Fa Daet Song Yang, and the rest have been left buried where they were found.