Wat Phaya Phun

Leave the town of Nan in a southerly direction to reach Wat Phaya Phun on the other side of Road 101. Standing on a hill, this wat's chedi has been built in the shape of a pointed, stepped pyramid with niches. It remains unclear whether it dates, like the Buddha statues, from the second half of the 14th c. (when, after years of Hinayana-Buddhism, Theravada-Buddhism was reintroduced and civilized Animismus was renounced) or from the 18th c.