If I ever get to Thailand, this temple is on the top of my list. I had never heard of the Wat Samphran Temple until it showed up on my Instagram feed with this amazon drone pic.

The whole building is a temple with a dragon wrapped around it. You can get to the roof in an elevator (when it’s working) or climb your way up inside the dragon. It kinds of looks like a Vegas tourist trap, but it’s a legit Buddhist temple.

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@la_nena__emilin_ and I made it to the top! I’m sure this can be the location of Wes Anderson’s next film🐉 To get here -2 hours of driving – 100 renditions of Despacito because the radio wasn’t working -We climbed through the dark inside of the dragon -scaled 1 very rickety ladder at the top of the tower in the rain -the drone nearly didnt work in the rain and i panicked it was going to fall in either the power lines or the lake just underneath -the way down was a lot quicker because we I thought I saw a ghost and we basically fell down the dragon (it was a 🐦) . Life’s all about the journey not the pic right? 😆 #accidentallywesanderson

A post shared by Emma Lauren (@emma_lauren) on Jul 4, 2019 at 3:53am PDT

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