Wat Traimit - The Temple of the Golden Buddha

The Buddha at Wat Traimit was discovered by accident when it was accidentally dropped as it was being moved, revealing, under a casing of plaster, a beautiful solid gold Sukhothai style Buddha. Pieces of the plaster are still kept on display.

Golden Buddha

June 24th 2012
Geo: 13.7308, 100.521We got up, dressed and went down to breakfast and, for possibly the first time ever, we beat Nana and Pa down. Even if it was only by five minutes we were still happy.We caught a tuk-tuk (a bit like a golf buggy) from outside our hotel to the Golden Buddha (Wat Traimit Wittayaram), as Pa was taking photos of us in the tuk-tuk another driver came and roped them into having ... 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

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