Kamphaeng Phet - Wat Phra Kaeo

Wat Phra Kaeo next to the Wat Phra That stands in what was the precinct of the royal palace. The royal temple, as opposed to a monastery, it has a number of very striking Buddha figures, standing in solitary splendor amidst the ruins. The features of the colossal figure on the high terrace of the former bot in front of a collapsed bell-shaped chedi have been totally weathered away, and another enormous Buddha in the center of the wiharn has suffered the same fate. The serried ranks of the smaller figures around this statue have been eroded into Giacometti-like shapes, their head, limbs and body assuming abstract lines as the stucco has broken off to leave just the slender laterite torso. One reclining Buddha in particular is worth seeking