Buddhist Temple Built Out of One Million Beer Bottles

Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as Wat Lan Kuad or "the Temple of a Million Bottles," is in Sisaket province near the Cambodian border, 400 miles from the capital Bangkok.

The Buddhist monks began collecting bottles in 1984 and they collected so many that they decided to use them as a building material.

They encouraged the local authorities to send them more and they have now created a complex of around 20 buildings using the beer bottles, comprising the main temple over a lake, crematorium, prayer rooms, a hall, water tower, tourist bathrooms and several small bungalows raised off the ground which serve as monks quarters.

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February 20, 2009

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