Wat Suan Dok Chiang Mai

On Suthep Road, west of the Old City, Chiang Mai , Thailand
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    Attraction Type:

    Cemetery, Religious site

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    21of 85 attractions in Chiang Mai

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  • 1

    On to Thailand! :-)

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    Entry containing 69 photos titled: Master Thai Chef Fritz Kuhn, Master Thai Chef Vienna Kuhn, Fun restaurant near our hotel, First night in Thailand, Old and new combined, A city gate (photo of King everywhere), Fun to ring bells at hilltop temple, The entrance to our wonderful hotel

Related BlogsWat Suan Dok Chiang Mai

  • 1

    Chatting and Cooking

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    ... eating, drinking, sleeping and shopping in lots of different markets. There have been three highlights though. On monday night we went to Wat Suan Dok to experience the Monk Chat. It is literally what it says it is, you go in and sit and chat to a ...

  • 2

    Trekking North

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    ... monastery a few kilometers west of the city (technically it's not a forest anymore, but definitely idyllic), and Wat Suan Dok right near Chiang Mai University.  They were both amazing and I did a little sitting meditation in the main temple at Suan ...

  • 3

    Leaving Chiang Mai

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    ... early dinner with my friends, Matt and Maddie, who were just married last week in Ko Samui.  I took one last trip to Wat Suan Dok to have some amulets blessed and made a quick jaunt to the train station to purchase my ticket for the sleeper train to ...

  • 4

    Why am I in Chiang Mai?

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    ... the sights and smells, and make an attempt at putting one foot in front of the other. I visited a meditation/retreat at Wat Suan Dok, and spent an entire afternoon chatting with young Buddhist monks from Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Laos and Italy. ...

  • 5

    A Chatty Monk

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    ... . Travis wanted to go to Wat Phra Singh, but it was being outfitted for Songkran, so we eventually decided to go to Wat Suan Dok and have ourselves a monk chat.  Naturally, the reason we knew so much about monk chat was due to the fact that ...

  • 6

    From temples to tigerkingdoms

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    ... I spent one day exploring and documenting (see photos) some of the temples - all magnificent constructions. Watch a video of Wat Suan Dok: http://www.openchiangmai.com/Wat_Suan_Dork__1739.html Watch a video of Wat UMong: ...

  • 7

    Getting high in Chiang Mai

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    ... . Next stop was the Monk Chat I had read about. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 5:00 and 7:00p.m at the back of Wat Suan Dok you can go and have a free chat to some Buddhist monks about whatever you want really (although I imagine it's beneficial ...

  • 8

    Cooking, trekking, eating, relaxing, sightseeing

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    ... , wo ich nicht mehr weiss, welches wie ausgesehen hat (Wat Phra Sing, Wat Phan Tao, Wat Chedi Luang, Wat Suan Dok, Wat U Mong, Wat Chiang Man). "Fun"-Street, wo eine offene Bar nach der anderen ist, man reinsieht und lauter ungustige, alte Westerner die ...

  • 9

    Still in Chiang Mai

    ... about Chiang Mai, but I don't think I would do it justice. All I'll say is...IF YOU GO TO THAILAND, MAKE SURE YOU GO TO CHIANG MAI! I finished my massage course, and received my certificate. I'm on the fence about taking the ADVANCED massage course. ...

  • 10

    Kantoke Dinner

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    ... tribes of Thailand. Today was Wat and Snack day. We would go see a Wat then go get a snack. Wat Suan Dok, Wat Ged yod, Wat Chedi Luang and Indian Lamb tiki masala, fried whole fishes topped with chilies as bright as strawberries and crab ...