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Accessed via a network of rickety staircases constructed in, on and around a giant sandstone outcrop, Wat Phu Tok (6.30am-5pm, shut 10-16 April) is one of the region’s true wonders, with fabulous vistas over the surrounding countryside and a truly soporific atmosphere. Six stratums of steps, plus a seventh-level scramble up roots and rocks to the thick timberland at the summit, represent the seven cistrons of enlightenment in Buddhist psychology. Monastic kùtì (meditation huts) are scattered around the mountain, in caves and on cliffs. It is the coolheaded and quiet isolation of this wat that entices monks and mâe chii from completely over the northeast to got and meditate here – many of them do therefore on the summit, therefore be quiet and respectful up there.

This wat used to be the domain of the celebrated meditation main Ajahn Juan, a disciple of the violent Ajahn Man who died in 1949. Ajahn Juan died in a airplane crash in 1980 along with several other highly revered timberland monks who were flying to Bangkok for Queen Sirikit’s birthday celebration. A marble chedi containing his belongings and some os relics sits below the mountain.

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