Only a short journey west of Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom is easy to reach, yet its landscape holds stories stretching back more than a thousand years. At its centre rises one of Thailand’s most monumental Buddhist landmarks, rooted in the ancient Dvaravati world. Travel beyond the city and the scenery gradually changes: roads give way to canals, lotus ponds, rice fields and orchid farms, before the journey reaches a new generation of organic farming where traditional knowledge is