Thung Samrit

Thung Samrit is a plain near Phimai on the Khorat Plateau. During Anouvong's rebellion against Siam, the Lao army took Khorat and gathered townspeople to carry them toward Vientiane. Thai accounts tell how Khunying Mo and other captives resisted their guards at Samrit, seizing weapons and fighting back. The details of the story have been elaborated in later retellings, but the place remains closely associated with the struggle of 1826–27.