OneThaiFlower (Thailand)
Entry from the park Kamchanod / คำชะโนด
Kamchanod (sometimes spelt Kamchanot) is believed to be the home and entrance to the underground world of a mythical Nāga, a giant serpent who legend says breathed fireballs into the sky to form steps for Lord Buddha to descend from heaven.
The great Nāga, so rumour goes, lives deep in the waters of the lake which surround a densely forested island called Wang Nakhin (Nāga Palace) which is connected to the temple grounds by a long ‘snaking’ bridge guarded on each side by two seven-headed serpents. It’s shoes off at the entrance… and then a 100 metre or so stroll across the bridge to a small temple and sacred well.
Inside the temple is a shrine of Chaopu Sisuttho and on either side of the Wat are smaller tin-roofed shrines where Thais kneel and offer incense sticks, flower garlands and prayers to the great Nāga and Lord Buddha. The whole area is not too big and trying to get a good full photographic shot of the temple proved very difficult and made even more challenging by the bright sunlight filtering through the forest’s chanot trees.
Entry from the park Kamchanod / คำชะโนด
Kamchanod (sometimes spelt Kamchanot) is believed to be the home and entrance to the underground world of a mythical Nāga, a giant serpent who legend says breathed fireballs into the sky to form steps for Lord Buddha to descend from heaven.
The great Nāga, so rumour goes, lives deep in the waters of the lake which surround a densely forested island called Wang Nakhin (Nāga Palace) which is connected to the temple grounds by a long ‘snaking’ bridge guarded on each side by two seven-headed serpents. It’s shoes off at the entrance… and then a 100 metre or so stroll across the bridge to a small temple and sacred well.
Inside the temple is a shrine of Chaopu Sisuttho and on either side of the Wat are smaller tin-roofed shrines where Thais kneel and offer incense sticks, flower garlands and prayers to the great Nāga and Lord Buddha. The whole area is not too big and trying to get a good full photographic shot of the temple proved very difficult and made even more challenging by the bright sunlight filtering through the forest’s chanot trees.