Laos Vientiane Wat Sisaket

[dirtydog]

Wat Sisaket or Vat Sisaket as they spell it in Laos is the oldest surviving temple in Vientiane, the King Anouvong got them started on it in 1818, in 1828 when the Thais invaded Vientiane they didn't destroy this temple due to it looking like a Thai temple, in 1924 and 1930 the French restored the temple.

I should mention that the nasty evil Laos xenophobes charge dirty foreigners 5,000kip to get in and Laos people 2,000kip, although if you pay in baht it is 10baht, quite often in Vientiane it is best to ask the price in kip and baht as you quite often get better deals paying in different currencies, they also say it is a museum, a museum of what I have no idea, the main building in the middle of the compound you are not allowed to take photos in, only has a Buddha shrine in it but the walls do have some nicely painted murals on, trouble is the Lao guy that was guarding it wouldn't leave so I couldn't get any pictures of the inside

The main building.



Part of the surrounding compound.



All in the surrounding compound are rows and rows of buddha images.



A window of the main building.



Nice doors on the main building.



Rows of Buddha images.



Detail work on the outside concrete.



Obviously didn't have bars to go to in the old days.



Some of the painting taken up real close.



More Buddha statues.



I wonder how long it took them to make each of those tiny little alcoves for the small Buddha images...

[dirtydog]

Supposedly Wat Sisaket was first built in 1551 by King Phothisararat, not sure how true this is as nothing about him was mentioned at the Temple, anyway a few more pictures including one I stole of the inside of the main building.

The one I stole.

[sunderlandstephen]

Nice thread , shame on your light fingers