Lampang Life

Wat Phra That Lampang Luang: Lampang's Great Lanna Temple, Honestly Explained Most famous Thai temples are famous for one thing — one great Buddha image, one tall chedi, one view. Wat Phra That Lampang Luang, about twenty kilometres southwest of Lampang city in Ko Kha district, is different. What survives here is not a single monument but a whole temple, almost complete: the fortress wall, the great open viharn, the golden chedi, the small painted halls, the footprint chapel with its strange upside-down image, the museum rooms and the old trees, all still standing together on their sandy mound the way a Lanna temple was meant to be. Scholars of Thai architecture regularly call it one of the finest and most complete surviving examples of Lanna temple building anywhere in the north. Having walked a lot of northern temples from our base in Phuket over the years, we are not going to argue with them. We are Scott and Jay. We run a small family condo business in Patong, Phuket, and we ...