My first thought today...why is the temple name so long. Who the heck can remember the name! Off at 8:30am for our tour of the temple in the mountains close to Chiang Mai. It is a very popular destination for tourists and many Thai's from nearby villages come with their children in traditional clothes hoping to get donations from visitors. And the temple also is inundated with donation boxes. It was rather overwhelming the number of donations expected. But you can see why. It is a large beautiful temple that has a high maintenance cost. Our guide also let us know that excess revenue is disbursed to other needy temples.
Julie preparing to enter the temple
Our guide Owch explain the significance of the various statues
A donation station
A monk throwing holy water.
People put their family remains around the tree for a few months.
306 steps down/up
Local village children in traditional clothes
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