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Wat Traimit (Temple of the Golden Buddha)
A temple people come back to · Bangkok, Thailand
Photo: Ian Gratton from Sutton-n-Craven, North Yorkshire, England · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
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The experience
Wat Traimit, at the western gateway to Chinatown, houses a Sukhothai-style Buddha cast in roughly 5.5 tonnes of solid gold. The image spent centuries hidden under a plaster coating and its true nature was only discovered in 1955 when the covering cracked during a move. It now sits in the Phra Maha Mondop, a marble pavilion completed in 2010 that also holds a small Chinatown heritage museum.
The world's largest solid-gold Buddha, with a hidden-treasure backstory, right at the mouth of Chinatown.
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Where it is
Bangkok, Thailand · Samphanthawong (Chinatown). Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
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Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.
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