4 Books, One Thailand: Temples, Nagas & Hidden Villages

 

Welcome, readers from around the world! This blog introduces a book series that dives deep into Thai culture, faith, and philosophy. All 4 books are now available on Amazon KDP.

Book 1: Spirit & Stone Discover the mystical world of Thai sacred stones, deep faith, and spiritual energy. This book unveils the secrets and legends hidden within Thailand's spiritual culture.

About the Author & This Book 

A Real Pilgrim's Journey: Written by Yuttapoom Abseenak, who personally drove from Phetchaburi to explore the spiritual heart of Thailand. 

Inside Book 1: Follow a profound 9-temple pilgrimage, exploring 7 sacred temples in Ayutthaya and 2 mystical temples in Saraburi. 

The Living Spirit: Discover why these ancient structures are more than just stone—they are vessels of a living, breathing faith.

Get your copy on Amazon KDP here: https://www.amazon.com/author/yuttapoom-abseenak

Book 2: The Road That Listened Discover a profound journey into the quiet spirit of Thai faith and devotion to the Naga. This book is not just a travel guide, but a record of what happens when we stop rushing and start listening to the ancient whispers within our hearts.

About the Author & This Book 

The Guardian of Waters: Explore a deep connection to the Naga, who are not just mythical creatures, but the ancient protectors of our rivers and the sacred bridge to the divine. 

Into the Hidden Cavern: Journey deep inside a mountain cave temple to witness the majestic White and Gold Naga, stretching silently through the dark over a glowing underground stream. 

Sacred in the Ordinary: Discover that true faith isn't just hidden inside statues or deep caves, but lives within the quiet endurance and hearts of ordinary people.

Get your copy on Amazon KDP here: https://www.amazon.com/ROAD-THAT-LISTENED-Spiritual-Encounters-ebook/dp/B0GZ66W6YG

Book 3: Thailand After Rain (The Sequel to "The Road That Listened")

Discover a soulful journey through the rain-soaked roads of rural Thailand, where the rush of the modern world fades into charcoal smoke, empty tables, and ordinary miracles. This book is an invitation to slow down and listen to the landscape, proving that healing begins when we finally stop rushing through the driving.

About the Author & This Book 

The Unplanned Road: This book is born from a profound exhaustion that a planned life could no longer fix. I got in my car and let the unnamed roads lead me into a different Thailand—one that doesn't pose for photographs, but breathes in the quiet space between destinations.

The Heartbeat of Slower Things: True healing did not arrive through grand answers, but inside the sacred ordinary. It was found in a simple village feast of dark chili paste and fried mackerel, and in the rare, timeless grace of children practicing ancient Khon movements beneath high wooden stilts.

The Wisdom of the Road: This is a journey through a landscape of vanishing patience—where mothers weave bamboo by hand and life moves with the soft pop of a broken engine. It is a raw reminder that the road doesn't fix you; it simply shows you that the world is far too beautiful to carry alone.

Get your copy on Amazon KDP here:  https://www.amazon.com/Thailand-After-Rain-Beyond-Lights-ebook/dp/B0H317CMF5

Book 4: Lablae The Hidden Village (The Sequel to Thailand After Rain)

Venture beyond the map into northern Thailand's rain-soaked mountains, where roads disappear, forests fall silent, and a legendary city refuses to be found. This book is not an attempt to explain the unexplained — it is a quiet record of a journey through wet asphalt and drifting fog, through forgotten towns and the thin, unsettling space between belief and coincidence.

About the Author & This Book

The Unseen Pull : It did not begin with a plan, but with a feeling — 4:17 AM, a cold kitchen floor, coffee growing warm, and car keys beneath pale morning light. Learn why Laplae reveals itself only to certain travelers, and only when it chooses to, with the quiet certainty that "some places do not need to announce themselves. They simply wait."

The Realm Beyond the Veil: this final pilgrimage follows the whispers left from Books 1–3. Discover why some northern roads do not appear on any official map — not because they are hidden, but because places like Laplae simply do not wish to be remembered by everyone.

The Disappearing Road: Stand before a letterless wooden sign while the road behind disappears into mist. Travel through unnatural silence, distant bells with no temple in sight, and toward Laplae — the City of True Speech — where time flows differently.

Get your copy on Amazon KDP here: https://www.amazon.com/Laplae-Realm-Beyond-Thailand-After-ebook/dp/B0GX32KNQ6

Author's Note

Thank you for making it to this last page with me.

These four books didn't start at a writing desk. They started when I turned to my partner and said, "Let's go to Ayutthaya." We spent two days planning a pilgrimage to nine sacred temples, and left Phetchaburi at four in the morning. The first book, Spirit & Stone, came from that road. I drove it myself, took every photo myself, and felt the real hunger and the real heat.

The three books that followed did not come from my tires. I did not walk those village lanes myself. I imagined them, through characters I created and images I generated, but I built them from things that are real: the old beliefs, the merit makings, the small ceremonies, the games, and the quiet ways of life on back roads that most foreign eyes never see.

From the sacred stones of Ayutthaya and Saraburi, I learned that faith isn't something you see. It's something warm in your palm.

From the sound of the Naga's water, I learned how to listen without rushing to answer. 

From the road after rain, I learned that beauty isn't at the destination. It's in the wet tire marks on a dirt track. 

And from Laplae, the City of True Speech, I learned that some doors don't open with keys. They open with the words we keep.

I don't have a perfect map to give you.

I only want to invite you to try, just once, what I did at 4:17 a.m.

Turn off the navigation.

Roll the window down.

Listen for the sound that isn't the engine.

And keep the words you speak.

In the end, we don't have to go searching for Laplae.

When we are ready, Laplae parts its mist and finds us.

Travel safely.

I came back from those first roads with nothing to bring home, except this way of writing. Not from a textbook, but from the silence between first gear and second.

These four books exist not to make you believe me, but so you can hear your own voice more clearly, without even trying.

The rest, I leave to be your road.

— Yuttapoom

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