Day 20: The Story of the White Elephant
November 3rd 2009 Today we visited the most famous wat in northern Thailand.
Wat Phrathat Doi Suthep sits up on a mountain (Doi Suthep) in a national park (Doi Suthep-Poi). People come from all over Thailand to worship here for two reasons:
- First is the chedi. As we now know, the chedi houses a piece of a bone from the Buddha. This bone sits in the very top of a very tall gold spire on top of the impress
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