The Lam So Pagoda is the largest pagoda on Samui. Most tourists too literally reproduce Latin transliteration The Laem Sor Pagoda is like the Laem Sor Pagoda, but you now know that this is Lam Soe. Big, beautiful, golden, exotic – everything, like like a man who first visited Thailand. That is why about Lam So pagoda is known by many tourists, and almost no one knows about Rattanakosin Pagoda, and yet it stands next door.
This is a common thing when tour companies pick up routes so that vacationers see only the main attractions that should be easily accessible scale and bright. Approach reasonable and understandable, but sorry those people who would like to see more, but clamped in the frame tours.
The content of the article
- 1 Lam So Pagoda
- 2 baby buddha
- 3 Information to visit
- 4 On the map
Lam So Pagoda
The Lam So Pagoda (Laem Sor Pagoda) is impressively huge. golden, beautiful building on the very edge of the shore. Down front parts of the pagoda there is a glass booth with a statue seated inside monk, and the entrance to the pagoda is guarded by terrible rakshasis. Next to the pagoda there is a building in which monks live, they can always be found there – a place popular even among Thais. Therefore, it is especially important here. observe the dress code for visiting Buddhist shrines.
If you accidentally forget about propriety, the monks will not say anything, but there are still constantly revolving assistants monks and parishioners, which does not rust you to scold. Parking near the pagoda is enough spacious, here constantly comes aunty who sells coconuts for drinking and coconut oil. Be careful with her hand a little monkey – she doesn’t like being teased and hurt to bite. This is especially true of children.
By the way, before the Lam So Pagoda stood on a nearby hill, but then it was moved down. Transferred because it twice lightning struck, and twice destroyed the holy structure. Thais planned to transfer as a temporary measure, but in the end Lam So and left standing on the shore, and now she suffers from marine waves that regularly bring down the site behind the pagoda.
The Lam So Pagoda and on the right are the monks houses.
House with a boat and a statue of a monk
There were almost no people on my visit, although I was in the midst season in the month of January. Apparently, because a lot of people happen only during excursions. As I wrote above, the pagoda is straight on the beach and near it there is a beach. He is dirty with natural and artificial garbage. But you know this is a combination of “pagoda + sea + lack of people “creates a special atmosphere, at least for me. I find it difficult to explain why, but it is. Either because that I’m not really used to seeing a Thai temple right on the beach, I do, because during my visit there were strong waves and elements I tried to wash this pagoda into the sea (a kind of struggle between nature and man). Or maybe I just trite hooked on this corner of Samui, because what I love most about beautiful nature and poor people attractions. By the way, there also casuarinas grow on shore, which I also love.
In the glass house to the left of the pagoda (facing the sea) inside there is a boat and a monk statue. This is a statue, not mummy. More on mummified monks in my other post
Baby buddha
Rattanakosin Jaidee, she is Rattanakosin Chedi, she is Buddha Chedi (Buddha Jaidee), she is – Baby Buddha Chedi, Baby Buddha or Little buddha Pagoda is not popular with Russian tour operators, but I regularly noticed there tourists from Asia. Situated it is on top of a hill that stands next to the Lam So pagoda. This is exactly the hill on which lightning twice destroyed the gold pagoda, after which it moved down.
A holy place is never empty – the Thais have built a pagoda here Smaller size, painted it white and put power inside Buddhas brought from Sri Lanka. On the area around the pagoda Rattanakosin is a place for meditation, monks’ houses, sculptural ensemble of Buddhas: lying, sitting, and even baby Buddha with a raised sky with your finger.
Since this is a hill, then consider that, besides the pagoda, you still will visit the viewing platform. From the top there is a nice view of east and south as well as a great place to meet here sunset
Parking on the hill Rattanakosin Chedi
View of Naha and Lamai
Top of the Lam So Pagoda Below
Baby Buddha Pagoda behind a reclining Buddha
I highly recommend visiting Baby Baby too, she’s really there beside. Not that the views were stunning, but without a visit. this would be my personal trip would not be complete.
Information to visit
Observe the dress code, that’s all you need to know about the visit. both pagodas. Access is open around the clock, but at nightfall there is absolutely nothing to do, except to run away from dogs. Parking free Entry to the hill with Baby Buddha is very, I repeat – very very cool. Dangerous cool. And what is bad – he is also not straight, but with a turn of 90 degrees in the middle, in short – I recommend to call in only to experienced drivers, people fighting there with regularly.
On the map
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