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Wat Phaya Wat

This is a temple which is located on the outskirts of Nan. The Mon-style chedi is a copy of the one at Wat Ku Kut in Lamphun. During our first visit in 2004 there wasn't much of a building around the main Buddha image, which had changed quite a bit in 2007, when the entire  building had been finshed with nice paintings above the windows. We spoke with a painter from Chiang Mai who just painted the windows with gold leaves. The only Buddha image here is Phra Chao Naikong in Haripunchai-style, which is sitting inside a beautifully decorated altar (the iron bars were gone in 2007). Behind the chedi are other ruins of old structures as well as parts of the old Nan city wall. 

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