| Visual Index of Chiang Rai Sites (Site name and description) | |||
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Wat Chet Yot (age unknown) A seven-spired chedi similar to its namesake in Chiang Mai. |
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Wat Ming Muang (age unknown) A wat at the intersection of Trairat and Banphapakan roads. |
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Wat Phra Kaeo (c. 1434) The site where the Emerald Buddha was first discovered. |
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Wat Phra Non (age unknown) Chiang Rai's Temple of the Reclining Buddha. |
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Wat Phra Singh (1385) One of the city's oldest wats. |
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Image credits: All images copyright 2008 Timothy M. Ciccone. Photographed early March, 2008.
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