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Wat Suan Dok (Flower Garden Temple), west of old Chiang Mai, just off the airport road. There are dozens and dozens of small white chedi,
about three metres (10 feet) to six metres (20 feet) high. These house the ashes of many of the Chiang Mai Royal Family but the largest one, just to the south, a Buddhist relic chedi.
The Viharn is enormous --the largest in Chiang Mai-- it is not very colourful, having a grey tiled roof, through the pillars and eaves are highly decorated and hung with
trembling wind bells. The altar displays Buddha images of various sizes with a large sitting Buddha facing and a tall standing Buddha image behind.
The bot has an orange-tiled roof and is famous among Thais for housing the Phra Chao Kao Tu Buddha image, a very large bronze image cast in the 16th century.
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