Wang Sam Sien

This guide to Wang Sam Sien in Pattaya traces one collector's private vision, Mongkol Mahakitpaisarn, who filled a hilltop above the sea with an imagined China of his own devising. You'll pass a towering statue of Guanyin, a bronze bell cast in the style of old Beijing, a mural of twenty-four stories on duty to one's parents, and Confucius seated as if in his ancient classroom. Further on stands Sun Yat-sen, oddly folded into the same hillside. Listen for how the sea breeze off Jomtien meets the incense and the ring of that bell.