Wat Umong Suan Putthatham
Forest temple of brick tunnels dug into an ancient mound, once built to shelter a wandering monk.
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This guide to Wat Umong Suan Putthatham in Chiang Mai tells of Chan, a young monk whose mountainside devotion earned him a forest spirit's gift of brilliant wisdom and the curse of restless wandering. In the thirteen hundreds, King Kuena ordered a maze of brick tunnels dug through an earthen mound so Chan could pace for hours without leaving the temple grounds, its walls once covered in painted murals of birds and flowers. Look up as you walk the tunnels, past the small shrines glowing in the dark.
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