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The world’s largest solid gold statue is a Golden Buddha that weighs…

The world’s largest solid gold statue is a Golden Buddha that weighs 5.5 tons. It resides at Traimit temple in Bangkok, and was made some time during the 13th-14th centuries. The Golden Buddha was hidden for hundreds of years covered in plaster to prevent it from being stolen. In an attempt to move the statue […]

During a ceremony that lasted for 9 days and 9 nights, these bats mysteriously disappeared and…

Thousands of Lyle’s flying foxes (Perouse Vampires) can be heard and seen from every corner of “Pho-Bangkla” temple (100km from Bangkok). Back in 1957, during a ceremony that lasted for 9 days and 9 nights, these bats mysteriously disappeared and returned once the ceremony completed without disturbing the monks. And in 1966, when the temple […]