Doi Suthep Elephant

Doi Suthep

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December 12th 2015
Geo: 18.8, 98.98Today we visited the Doi Suthep temple up on a hill, about 16km from the city center. It's the most important tempel in Northern Thailand. The reason why they built it up here is pretty funny. A holy shrine needed a new home so it was put on a white elephant, also considered holy here in Thailand. He climbed up the mountain, when he reached the place were the tempel is n ... read more

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A unified Thai kingdom was established in the mid-14th century. Known as Siam until 1939, Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country never to have been taken over by a European power. A bloodless revolution in 1932 led to a constitutional monarchy.... ... read more