Chak Phra festival, Surat Thani 2024Wat Bang Kluai

See this boat in 360°

Thai name

วัดบางกล้วย

Location

Village 3, Bang Sai Subdistrict, Mueang Surat Thani District, Surat Thani

Background

Said to have begun about 300 years ago as a monastic residence set up by Luang Pho Noei, a wandering Karen monk from Burma. It became a legal temple on 18 February 1913 under Phra Athikan Hit. After a period of abandonment, Phra Khru Yokhathikan Winit of Wat Thammabucha restored it in 1921, and it has been Dhammayut since.

What to see

• Ordination hall, sermon hall and wooden monks' quarters with diamond-pattern tile roofs
• Canal-side temple on Khlong Bang Kluai Yai and Bang Kluai Lek, on the "Khlong Roi Sai" (hundred canals) tourist route
• Site of the first school in Nai Bang Subdistrict (opened 1917)