Thread: Pattaya Temple Wat Khao Sao Tung Torng

This Temple is heading out of Pattaya towards Jomtien, turn off at Sukhumvit Soi 87 and follow the road till you see a big mountain on your left, most mountains in Thailand have Buddhist Temples on top and they all look pretty much the same so it doesn't really matter if you get lost or go to a different one, Buddha will forgive you, anyway as you can see from the pictures it is out in the wild countryside of Pattaya, there really weren't a lot around here apart from cassava fields.

Anyway the only reason I stopped here was they had a stairway leading up the mountain, now to spend all that time and money building a massive stairway up the side of the mountain from the monastery means there has to be something pretty smart up there, and this Temple did look quite wealthy, so I got to admit my expectations were high, the lowest I expected was some massive Buddha statues covered in gold leaf, alas I was wrong.

The Temple is set out over quite a large area so me being lazy just drove round it first time to get the pictures, all the buildings were locked, not a monk to be seen anywhere, God knows where they had all gone as it was about 1pm, they seem to like chickens as they had loads of them all over the place, personally I would be a bit concerned about bird flu if I was a monk living there.

The main building for the parties and that sort of stuff.



Quite a nice entrance but the gate was locked, must be a lot of theft in this area.



Something like this would help make any bland terraced house in Manchester stand out a bit and make the neighbors jealous.



The band stand where the drums and that are kept.



The big bass drum.