December 17th, 2016
This morning it was off to see Wat Chalong, a Buddhist temple in Chalong on the Southern end of Phuket. It took over an hour to get from the hotel which is in the North part of the Island to Chalong wich is in the south part of the Island. Not sure why, but I thought Phuket would be about the same size as Ko Phi Ph, but it isn’t, Phuket is many times larger.
We arrived at Wat Chalong to hear a lot of loud pops and sea of smoke. Many Thai locals as well as tourists light firecrackers inside large beehive shaped clay ovens whenever a prayer is answered as a way of celebrating good fortune. It is very loud and a little bit startling. I think I heard it four or five times in the 45 minutes I was there.
The main temple is quite beautiful with three floors that you can go up inside. The inside is colorfully decorated with different religious themes. On the top level there is a sacred relic of a fragment of a bone of the Buddha.
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