14th Century Temple in Chiang Mai

Video Transcript

So Haelee is year of the goat I myself am ear of the pig and this is my favorite temple maybe in all of Chiang Mai it’s not super huge but it just has a really nice feeling it’s called Wat Chedi Luang (วัดเจดีย์หลวง) and it’s right in the center of old town Chiang Mai I guess what I love about it most is that it’s not full of gold like shiny gold so many temples are like just so shiny and gold and those ones are nice to see but this one I mean we’re about to see here when I show you uh behind what I’m looking at because this one to me this is the craziest feature of this whole place this is like centuries old all crazy old stone it just gives you a super cool feeling when you see it.

So as you’re choosing which temples to go to here in Chiang Mai I’m gonna definitely recommend that you come and just spend some time with this this is the center piece of it this as Haelee just said as we’re walking around man if these bricks could talk they’d have some stories to tell this is a started to get built in the 14th century then there was a delay in the building it got finished in the 15th century so we’re talking 600 years old like a lot of the temples in Chiang Mai but this one feels old and it just the camera can’t do it justice so let me just show you some images of this place you enjoy it and then click that map icon and come down and see it for yourself!

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