Place of worship
Wat Ratchathammaram Red Temple
Terracotta-red hall carved floor to roof with mythological reliefs above a fishing shore.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Red Temple, Wat Ratchathammaram, above the fishing village of Hua Thanon on Koh Samui follows the local carvers who rebuilt it about a century ago and covered nearly every surface in myth. It lingers on the fanged eclipse demon Rahu set over the entrance, the Ramayana battles and naga serpents guarding the stairway to the sea, and what those carvings meant to the fishermen below. It also traces how a Buddhist temple came to watch over one of Samui's oldest Muslim fishing communities.
This audio guide was created using AI.