Wat Phra Yai / Big Buddha Temple
Sight in Ko Samui, Surat Thani, Thailand
Wat Phra Yai, known in English as the Big Buddha Temple, is a Buddhist temple on Ko Phan (also spelled Koh Fan or Koh Faan), a small island offshore from the northeastern area of Ko Samui, Thailand, connected to that island by a short causeway 3 kilometres (1.9 miles) north of Samui International Airport. As its name indicates, it is home to a giant, 12-metre-high (39-foot) gold-painted Buddha statue. Since being built in 1... (read more on Wikipedia)
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Other locations nearby
- Plaza the Green (530 m)
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- Samui International Airport... (1,940 m)
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