Wat Pho

Wat Pho, which is located just outside the Grand Palace enclosure, is a great addition to your palace tour if your feet are up for more walking. It is one of the oldest wats in the nation, which was built in Bangkok before the city became the kingdom's capital.

The Wat Pho grounds are over 80,000 square meters in size and contain numerous chedis (stupas holding relics), praying halls, pavilions, formal gardens, and numerous life-size stone statues guarding the temple gates. The Temple of the Reclining Buddha, which holds a Buddha figure that is so large that is 45 meters long and 15 meters high, is today what gives Wat Pho its greatest notoriety. Wat Pho is also highly known for being the site of Thailand's first public university. However, the temples still run a school for massage and natural medicine, even if science and literature are no longer taught here. That makes Wat Pho the ideal location for tourists to get a traditional Thai massage.

Address: 2 Sanamchai Road, Grand Palace Subdistrict, Pranakorn District