Thursday, June 08, 2023

Sorry to have missed this when I was in Thailand

Kids must love this. We went to a lot of temples but nothing like this. From: Interesting Facts "Away from the typical Thai tourist trail and scarcely mentioned in guidebooks is the extravagant Wat Samphran Temple. Also known as the Dragon Temple, it has an exotic dragon sculpture that curls all the way up a 17-story cylindrical pink tower. The 80-meter height (262 feet) of the tower is symbolic of the age that Buddha died, while the dragon’s five claws stand for the five precepts of Buddhism. Perhaps best of all, the dragon doubles as a tunneled walkway that lets visitors walk to the top of the tower, where panoramic views await."