Chak Phra festival, Surat Thani 2024Wat Tham Wararam

See this boat in 360°

Thai name

วัดถ้ำวราราม

Location

Village 4, Khlong Sok Subdistrict, Phanom District, Surat Thani

Background

Also called Wat Tham Pla, this Maha Nikaya cave temple is in the Khlong Sok area; the registry gives 1905 as the founding year. The limestone cave has four chambers of archaeological interest. A 1986 Fine Arts Department survey found that prehistoric people lived here, leaving coarse potsherds, stone tools, shell bracelets and sharpened animal bones and teeth.

What to see

• Buddha images inside the cave
• Landing in front of the cave teeming with pla taphian daeng, a barb fish locally called pla lampam, which gives the temple its name Wat Tham Pla (fish cave)
• Prehistoric archaeological site with four chambers