Huai Bong Windmill Field

About 90 wind turbines stand across the hills of Huai Bong subdistrict in Dan Khun Thot district, Nakhon Ratchasima — Thailand’s first large-scale wind farm, and, when it went up, the highest-capacity wind project in Southeast Asia. Each turbine runs 120-135 metres to the hub, with blades stretching over 50 metres, spread across more than 10,000 rai of open, rolling farmland. It’s worth being clear about the geography: this sits roughly 85 km north of Khao Yai National Park, in a different corner of the province entirely — despite showing up in some itineraries tacked onto a Khao Yai trip, it’s really a Korat-area detour.

There’s no admission gate and no formal visitor centre — the turbines sit on open land, visible from Highway 2256 as you approach from the Lam Phaya Klang direction, with several unofficial pull-offs where people stop to look and take photos. A roadside coffee shop near the turbines has become the informal gathering point, serving the steady trickle of visitors who stop for a look on the way through. The scale is the main draw: standing at the base of a turbine that’s taller than most of Bangkok’s mid-rise buildings, with the blades turning slowly overhead, is a genuinely different kind of Thai countryside scene from the temples and rice paddies most itineraries run on.

Watch out: The turbines only turn when there’s wind, and on still days they can sit completely motionless — check conditions aren’t dead calm before making a special trip out here for photos.

Early morning or late afternoon gives the best light for photography, and the breezier months (roughly November to March) give you the best odds of catching the blades actually rotating. From Korat city, the drive runs northwest via Highway 2 toward Sung Noen, then local roads through Dan Khun Thot district — there’s no public transport directly to the site, so a car or motorbike is necessary. Wat Ban Rai and the Luang Pho Koon Museum, both in the same Dan Khun Thot district, make sensible stops to combine with the turbines on a day out from Korat city.