Wat Phra Thong
Buddhist temple sheltering a half-buried golden Buddha that has defied all excavation attempts.
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This guide to Wat Phra Thong in Phuket opens with a boy who tied his buffalo to a wooden post jutting from a muddy field after a storm, centuries ago, and both were dead by nightfall. You'll hear about his father's dream of a spirit revealing what the post really was, and the Governor of Thalang's order to excavate the ground, which brought swarms of locusts and wasps boiling up at the workers. The guide also follows the temple through the 1785 Burmese invasion of Phuket, when these same walls became a fort.
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