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Wat Traimitr Wittayaram Woraviharn

 The most famous of all golden images in Thailand is the Golden Buddha in Wat Traimitr, located in Bangkok‘s Chinatown. The official name of the image is Phra Buddha Mahasuwan Patimakorn or Phra Sukhothai Traimitr. Three meters high and weighing five and a half tons, it was covered in stucco to protect it from the invading Burmese in the eighteenth century. When it slipped while being moved by a crane the stucco cracked, revealing the gold underneath. While Wat Traimit is a temple, it is very touristy and hords of people stream through the Phra Viharn. One also has to pay an entrance fee for paying respect to the Buddha image which would be more appropriate for a museum.

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