On Sunday, we hired the Hotel driver for the day to take us to some tourist stops. We planned on seeing a local Buddhist Temple and Terry wanted to visit "King Cobra Village" for their snake display.
Jody was MIA ... maybe she's still in that massage chair. So we headed off to the lobby and found our driver. We pointed out our sites on the map and headed off.
First stop, the Royal Buddhist Temple in Kohn Kaen, Wat Nong Waeng, the highlight of which is the 9 story tall stuppa, Phra Mahathat Kaen Nakhon. According to the sign, the original temple was built in 1793, around the time the city of Kohn Kaen was founded. The temple was elevated to Royal status in 1984. The stuppa was built around 1994-1996 (for the city's bicentennial and the 50th anniversarry of the King's corronation). The stuppa contains "relics of the Lord Buddha and important Buddhist scriptures."
--Photos Coming Soon--
We arrived at the Temple in the middle of a Buddhist service but were allowed to walk the grounds and were shown the staircase to walk to the upper levels of the temple. From the top of the 9 story pyramid, we could see the City of Kohn Kaen and the surrounding countryside.
-- More Photos Coming Soon --
Our second stop was the Temple at Phrathat Kham Kaen. The Phrathat is a spire that is built ag ground level and there is a building adjacent that holds more relics of Buddha.
-- Photos coming soon --
The last stop on our trip was King Cobra Village. I'll write more on that when I can get the photos uploaded. In the mean time, I'm getting ready to board QF-2 from Bangkok to Sydney.
Jody was MIA ... maybe she's still in that massage chair. So we headed off to the lobby and found our driver. We pointed out our sites on the map and headed off.
First stop, the Royal Buddhist Temple in Kohn Kaen, Wat Nong Waeng, the highlight of which is the 9 story tall stuppa, Phra Mahathat Kaen Nakhon. According to the sign, the original temple was built in 1793, around the time the city of Kohn Kaen was founded. The temple was elevated to Royal status in 1984. The stuppa was built around 1994-1996 (for the city's bicentennial and the 50th anniversarry of the King's corronation). The stuppa contains "relics of the Lord Buddha and important Buddhist scriptures."
--Photos Coming Soon--
We arrived at the Temple in the middle of a Buddhist service but were allowed to walk the grounds and were shown the staircase to walk to the upper levels of the temple. From the top of the 9 story pyramid, we could see the City of Kohn Kaen and the surrounding countryside.
-- More Photos Coming Soon --
Our second stop was the Temple at Phrathat Kham Kaen. The Phrathat is a spire that is built ag ground level and there is a building adjacent that holds more relics of Buddha.
-- Photos coming soon --
The last stop on our trip was King Cobra Village. I'll write more on that when I can get the photos uploaded. In the mean time, I'm getting ready to board QF-2 from Bangkok to Sydney.
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