Wat Sai Thai
Cliffside cave shrine of ancient clay Buddha images beside a giant reclining Buddha statue.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Wat Sai Thai in Krabi opens inside a crevice in the limestone cliff behind the temple, where surveyors found roughly molded clay Buddha images alongside Hindu deity figurines, left by traders who once cut across this peninsula between the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Thailand. You'll hear how much of that carved history quietly went missing before anyone understood what it was. Outside, a reclining Buddha some fifteen meters long rests at the cliff's base beside a tree easily a century old that visitors still reach out to touch.
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