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A. The Thai Pavilion at Utanede
King Chulalongkorn, Rama 5th, of Siam (Thailand) is now standing as a statue inside the Thai Pavilion at Utanede. Who could believe that his journey through our district should result in these investments in a memorial buildning at a small village? If you want more information, please click on the History-button. The pavilion has been designed in Thailand, built in Sweden, except the decoration, which in made in Thailand and mounted at Utanede by Thai peoples.
King Chulalongkorn Memorial Building, which is the official name of the building, was visited the first year (1998) by 100 000 peoples, and then by 60 000 every year. The Thai Pavilion is the best tourism attraction in the region of Jämtland outside the city Östersund. Celebration Every year King Chulalongkorn is celebrated in Thailand and of course at Utanede July 19th, the day he travelled through. The pavilion is open for guided walks during the summer (May - September). Other time,please call Ragundadalen Tourism +46-696-68 20 90 or visit their website www.rdt.se or www.ragunda.se
Only 8 km west Bispgården is The Dead Falls, one of Sweden's most unusual tourist attractions, with 30 000 visitors per year. When the latest glacier disintegrated about 9000 years ago it left its wake a large gravel ridge where the river originally ran. On the ridge developed a several miles long river with a water level 30 meters above the original water level. The river was forced to take another path over a mountain ravine, which resulted in the origin of "Storforsen" (The Great Waterfall) as high as a ten-storied building. Salmon were unable to travel up the river and timber was destroyed. Farmers above the waterfall and forest owners on the coast tried to find the solution. They asked Magnus Huss, alias "Vildhussen" to dig a canal along the side of the fall. To his help he took water from a brook with help of a cute. On the 6th of June 1796 the spring thaw was very powerful and broke through the high gravel ridge. Within a few hours the Ragunda Lake was emptied of millions of liters of water and the river returned to its original path. Mills, barns and everything in the path where flushed away with the tidal wave. This mistake caused Sweden's largest natural disaster in modern time.
The Great Fall became silent and became the Dead Falls - a Nature Reserve
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