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  • thep [ Location ]
    About 102 km from Korat city. On the highway No. 2.
    About 22 km from Pak Chong city.

    [ Outline ]
    A big Buddha sculpture come in sight on the halfway a mountain when traveling on the highway No.2.

    The height from the stairs to the sculpture's plinth: 112 meters
    The height of the sculpture: 45 meters
    The width of the plinth: 27 meters
    The weight of the sculpture: 3,000 tons
    The capacity of a image's nostril: over 200 liters
    To get to the sculpture, visitors must climb the stairs for 112 meters.
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    There are three other Buddha statues on the top of the big stairs.
    The present "naga" gods is decorated on the edges of balustrades.
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    There are two small stairs at the right and left side on the top of big stairs to go to a image.
    The stairs are very steep, it is hard to go up the stairs about 100 meters at a stretch.
    It is better to go up the right side stairs.

    Three bells are hung on the top so as to pat in memory of climbing.
    (Please pat a bell one time gently.)
    The view is very good from here.
    If you stand here, you will understand why we explained a capacity of a image's nostril.
    On the right of big stairs,there is a building which is enshrining Buddha images.
    And on the left of it, there is a shop which is selling the big Buddha image's pictures and talismans.
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    On the side of a building, the other god images and the images from a Buddha's episode are displayed.

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