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TravelPod Member ReviewsWat Si Saket Vientiane
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Many Mini Buddhas
adventureday 10 contributions Pueblo, United States Mar 13, 2012
I wasn't too impressed with the temple, probably because of the unusually high entrance fee. The inside is not too spectacular. The best part were the hundreds of niches filled with mini Buddha statues. Be sure to see the Buddha graveyard where all of the broken Buddha statues are piled behind a fence.
This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
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Wat Si Saket
worldcitizen83 8 contributions Chicago, United States Aug 5, 2011
This site is located relatively close to the Presidential Palace and to another temple, Haw Phra Kaew. There is a very small admission fee and considering the weakness of the Lao Kip, it should pose absolutely no great expense to any traveler.
Since it is a holy site, pictures are not allowed in the main temple but you can photograph the exterior and open galleries which are filled with thousands of small Buddhas in wall niches and a couple hundred large sitting Buddhas.This review is the subjective opinion of a TravelPod member and not of TravelPod.com.
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Visited this Attraction Wat Si Saket Vientiane
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A Colonial Capital-Vientiane
The rickety bus jolted to a halt and spit us out onto the street in the middle of downtown Vientiane, allowing us to avoid going all the way to the bus station and then backtracking. The road from Vang Vieng to here was the worst major highway that we have experienced in Asia. We were completely covered in a layer of red dust which took two showers …
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Recorriendo el corazón de Laos
Llegamos a la capital de Laos y nos llevamos una grata sorpresa, la ciudad estaba limpia, con bonitos restoranes, sin congestión, poco ruido, que alivio.
El bus que tomamos, que era un bus con "cama doble" finalmente nos resultó fatal, ya que no pude dormir considerando el espacio…claro, están hecho para la gente de acá y los … -
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Vientiane
De aankomst op het vliegveld in Laos ging gepaard met de te verwachten klimaatsverandering. Met een graadje of 25 in de avond kon ik de overkleding die ik zo'n beetje constant had gedragen vanaf Lhasa vaarwel zeggen en die tijden gaan gezien mijn verdere reisplanning ook niet meer terugkomen. Dat wil zeggen: TOT ik weer naar Nederland afreis :-). …
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A day of the Laos capital
Free breakfast, the friend egg on toast was a good start to the day. April, Helen and Zoe had booked a ticket to go to The Kaeck but I was unsure if I wanted to go with them, might need another day in Vientiane just to figure out what I want to do next...
April struck a good deal with a tuk-tuk driver. For him to take us to see the Wat Si … -
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Un autre rythme
Me voici donc depuis hier à Vientiane, capitale du Laos. C'est une ville de 200'000 habitants, mais elle a plus un air de petit bourg de province. Les rues y sont souvent étroites, le trafic pas très dense. Les passants sont un joyeux mélange de locaux, de moines (reconnaissables à leur tunique orange) et de touristes, même si cette dernière caté …
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Wat Si Saket, Pha That Luang. the Lao Army Museum
Since it was my last day in Laos, I was determined to see as much as I possibly could.
The first place I went to was Wat Sisaket. This is a Buddhist Temple relatively close to the Presidential Palace. The interesting thing about this temple is that the entrance leads into an open courtyard with a main temple in the center. All around the …
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Laos, Buses and Vientiane
... and today walked around the city. We managed to navigate around despite there being no street names and saw 5-6 Wats and monuments. One Wat (Wat Si Saket) was very impressive as it had over 3000 Buddhas inside. So up to Vang Vieng next for a few days as ...
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Quick stop off.....
... ! First of all was Wat Si Saket which was a walk from where we arranged to meet. Built nearly 200 years ago, Wat Si Saket contains over 2,000 Buddha images. Don't want to sound disrespectful, but i've been hundreds of thousands of buddhas - how ...
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Capital Stop
... replica, which dominates the commercial district. We walked down the road about ½ of mile or so until we came to the "Wat Si Saket. This temple was built in 1818 by King Anouvong and is the oldest in the capital. The King was educated in Bangkok and ...
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Not quite what I expected
... a glimpse of something uniquely Lao. These pagoda's were totally unlike those I'd seen in Cambodia. In fact one of them, Wat Si Saket, was actually the only pagoda that survived the Siamese invasion of 1828. I thought about it a little more, and ...
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Visa time!
... to phonsovan, and after riding to the bus station in the morning (and getting thoroughly lost on the way) i checked out Wat si saket, which wasn't really anything that special (feeling templed out, and the heat makes it even harder to appreciate them.) ...
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Ever southwards
... of the government they replaced, as the park surrounding it is a bit of a better job. We checked out yet another wat, Wat Si Saket, which had the distinction of not getting trashed by the Thais when they invaded in the 1800's (like the rest of ...
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Sabaidee in the capital
... wir einen Treffpunkt um gemeinsam einen Bus zu nehmen. Montag spazier ich noch ein wenig durch die Stadt und seh: - Wat Si Saket (aeltester Tempel Vientianes, seh ihn aber nur von Aussen, da ich keine Lust auf Eintritt, um tausende Buddha Statuen zu ...
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Vientiane, Laos
... at different Wats, eating at different places and enjoying the relative peace and quiet. I guess the highlight would be between Wat Si Saket and Pha That Luang. Wat Si Saket because of it's obvious age and the way all these different Buddhas were around ...
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Bugs in my Bed
... us cradling his prize cockrel! So a few days in Vientiane, seeing the sights * Pha That Luang - massive golden stupa * Wat Si Saket - old cloistered temple with 7000 buddha figurines * Haw Pha Kaeo - museum of religious art * Patuxai - arc de ...
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Vientiane is a very nice place
... out if the deceased was in the pyre. Lao people love their temples even more than the Thais, so we took a look at Wat Si Saket, which was old and full of Buddha images rescued from all over the country when other empires (basically every one else in ...
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- Great Sacred Stupa (Pha That Luang)
- Wat Xiengthong
- Ho Pra Keo
- Whisky Village
- Kouang Si Waterfall
- Wat Pa Phon Phao
- Kuang Si Falls
- Lao National History Museum
- LAO PTM Travel
- Lotus Spa
- Mount Phousi
- Patuxai
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