Suphan Buri

For our final stop today we visit Sam Chuk Market which is a 100-year-old traditional water market that has remained an antique community while being surrounded by an evolution of modern influences. This Chinese community and old-fashioned market, complete with wooden shop houses, has retained its authentic Thai style, dating …

This royal temple believed to have been built some 800 years ago houses a 23 meter tall sitting Buddha statue and is surrounded by a traditional Thai-style house known as Khum Khun Chang. The house’s construction and design carefully follow descriptions in a piece of classic literature, “Khun Chang-Khun Phaen”, …

For part 2 of the visit to Wat Phai Rong Wua, we take a look around at some of the other points of interest including the giant Buddha statue which is said to be the largest here in Thailand Map reference for the Temple Here are some pictures I took …

For this day’s adventure, we head north to Supun Buri to visit a temple which could be said to be one of the most bizarre temple complexes in Thailand. Part of the temple grounds is a simulation of the Buddhist idea of heaven and hell and what happens when you …