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Great Wall
 Street address: National Highway 13 South, Muang Thakhek, Khoueng Khammouane, Laos
Mailing address: Khammouane Provincial Service of Information and Culture, Ban Laophoxay, Muang Thakhek, Khammouane Province, Laos
Telephone: 856 (0) 51 213022, 856 (0) 51 250748
Fax: 856 (0) 51 212269, 856 (0) 51 250748
Contact: Inpone Sengmany Director
Telephone: 856 (0) 20 995 0021 (mobile)
Opening hours: Open access at all times
Stretching nearly 15 kilometres from Ban Phosy north of Thakhek, to the Sebangfai River and occasionally reaching 15 metres in height, the Great Wall remains something of a mystery. In some parts clearly of natural origin and in others apparently built by human hand, the wall is believed by some local people to have been the main protective wall of the ancient Mon city of Sri Gotapura, the capital of which was located in the area of today’s That Sikhottabong. As yet no excavations have been conducted to investigate definitively the origins of the wall. The largest sections of the wall lie immediately to the west of National Highway 13, four kilometres north of Thakhek.
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