Place of worship
Wat Samret
Off-beat Buddhist temple with an unmarked hall of gathered statues and disputed centuries-old roots.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Wat Samret on Koh Samui centers on the temple's Secret Hall of Buddhas, an unmarked room where dozens of statues sit gathered with no plaques and no explanations. It follows what is known and unknown about a giant seated Buddha said to have come from India, and about a temple whose own age nobody on the island can agree on. Just outside, generations of Hua Thanon fishing families rest in the gravestones lining the temple walls.
This audio guide was created using AI.