Wat Tham Suea
Cave-mouth shrine below a limestone peak, reached by a punishing staircase of over a thousand steps.
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This guide to Wat Tham Suea in Krabi starts with the macaques lining its stairway, adept enough at reading tourists to know an unzipped bag from a resealed one. It traces back to 1975, when the forest monk Ajahn Jumnean Seelasettho climbed into the cave at the hill's foot to meditate, and to the paw-shaped marks in the rock that gave the Tiger Cave Temple its name. Along the way it climbs all 1,260 steps to the golden Buddha shrine above. Zip your snacks away and don't meet a monkey's eyes.
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