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Wat Phu Tok
A temple people come back to · Si Wilai, Thailand
Photo: Erwannjacquin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
4.7★Rating
2,200Reviews
$Price level
Nov–MarBest time
The experience
A meditation monastery built into a lone sandstone mesa, climbed via seven levels of hand-built wooden staircases and cliff-hugging plank walkways — monks built them by hand as an act of devotion.
No other temple in Thailand asks you to circle a cliff face on bare wooden catwalks.
vertiginousmeditativeremoteraw
It's only worth the detour Nov–Mar. Turn up outside that window and you're looking at a different place; we'd rather say so than sell you the photo.
Where it is
Si Wilai, Thailand · Bueng Kan Province. Coordinates from the listing we sourced it from.
DirectionsWhat a membership adds.
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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