One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster. But what about the rest of Thailand? Journey with me, if you please, 370 miles to the north-east of Bangkok to the Wat Pa Maha Chedio KaewSisaket temple (nicknamed Wat Lan Kuad, or “Temple of a Million Glass Bottles”).
Wat Lan Kuad monks started collecting discarded glass bottles way back in 1984 so they could decorate their buildings. Apparently, their creativity with how they reused the glass bottles inspired tourists to start bringing bottles to the temple. Today, their seemingly fragile (yet actually pretty sturdy) temple is infused with over a million reused glass bottles! Hot dang!
I’ll leave you with some pictures of this magnificient temple. It’s purty cool how they used the glass bottles and even the metal caps of the bottles. ¡Disfrute los fotos!
I found out about this from good ol’ Been-Seen, who in turn found out about it from some Yahoo page that don’t exist no more.
Monk Temple built from Reused Glass Bottles
Written on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 11:53 am by ecojoeFiled under green construction, reusing.
December 27th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
amazing! I was close to there, 3 yrs. ago…sorry I missed it. I'm saving orange juice cans, now…
February 21st, 2009 at 1:12 pm
I have been there! Its beautiful and cool in there but its not quite finished so you could go back and see it for yourself. Leave a donation if not money take some bottles.
March 5th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Wow have you actually been there?
It seems to be a trend at the moment.. check out http://bit.ly/3FSDX
Pretty cool hey!?
March 6th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Nay, I have not been there, not yet at least. That is cool. It'd be awesome to have a whole city made of recycled/reused mess…
March 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Perhaps we should start it… you in the States – me in England.. meet in the middle??? Hmmm interesting blog piece! haha
March 6th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
I've started, I have a hut made of old cardboard boxes so far. Every journey has to begin with a first step, yeah?
March 6th, 2009 at 4:52 pm
Ha true, I'll start with the beer bottles.. seem to have a lot of them in our recycling bin for some reason?
Question is – what to build?
March 6th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
A glasshouse made out of beer bottles would be awesome; I ain't sure if it'd let enough sun through, though. It's worth a shot to try!
March 6th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
On to it.. Will let you know when have pictures!!
March 6th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
[...] Of course, I am not the only one to have taken a practical stance what I call “Recyclo Art” as shown in the recent coverage of the Monk’s Temple in Thailand. [...]
March 6th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
Attempt one.. check.. Tea party! http://goldie27.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/recyclo-...
March 7th, 2009 at 12:26 am
Wow, that was fast. That's some speedy tea-cup-making.
April 3rd, 2009 at 10:47 am
This is never easy.
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