WAT ARUN (TEMPLE OF DAWN)
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Wat Arunratchawararam Ratchaworamahavihara, or Wat Arun more simply, is named after the goddess Aruna, goddess of the Dawn in the Hindu pantheon. Built during the Ayutthaya period, King Tasksin enlarged a small Buddhist temple that occupied the site, and Kings Rama II and Rama III expanded it. The main prang, which is an imposing 82 m high, is decorated with fragments of porcelain and a hundred statues of demons that protect it, and the seven-pointed trident of Shiva can be seen at its top. Around the main prang, four smaller ones house deities on horseback, the Nayu. Further down, statues of lions and Chinese soldiers stand guard. The roofs of the Wat are decorated with kinaries, the bird-women, with their hands joined in a position of meditation. On the banks of the river are 6 small Chinese pavilions, housing representations of Buddha during different episodes of his life. But more than the visit itself, which is quite quick, it is the sunset on this temple that is worth seeing. For that you can sit at the end of the day on the opposite bank of the Chao Phraya, and wait for the prang to be illuminated. Wat Arun, also known as the Temple of Dawn, after three long years of restoration entrusted to the direction of the Thai Department of Fine Arts, was restored to its full glory in 2018. One of the most emblematic monuments of Thailand.
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