Bangkok Temples

Bangkok has around 400 temples. A Thai temple is open to everybody – so you are free to enter any temple, as long as you have common courtesy and follow a certain dress-style (no mini-skirts, etc. – you don’t want to make the monks horny!).

Some temples charge you to enter them, but these are the main tourist destination temples where there really are high maintenance costs because of the massive influx of tourists – the Grand Palace with the Emerald Buddha and the Wat Poh temple. Most of the temples are done in the modern Thai-style and they are pretty fancy, not like the zen-style Japanese temples. Thai temples are full of colors, mirrors, golden buddhas, colored glass.

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