Taking a Field Trip to Bang Sue and Ending up Conveniently Lost (Wat Phaiton)

Evan Guerra

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Walking the Path

4 min readJan 28, 2016

Winter in Bangkok is super brutal.

27-JANUARY-2016

Hi Evan Guerra here and Welcome to another entry of Explore Bangkok. Recording my journey to visit every Buddhist Temple in Bangkok. See map.

Temples in order of walk.

Wat Thamma Phi Rata Ram ✔
Wat Phaiton ✔

Despite the numbing Bangkok winter conditions begging me to stay in bed I set off at 7.30 am. Destination. Bang Sue MRT station. End of the line.

I always peruse Google Maps before embarking on foot to a new temple to prevent ending up lost. 20% of the time I completely cock up and end up walking in the opposite direction. I got lost in Bangkok on foot without a coffee in the winter time. Dreadful.

A triple glance at my phone I was quickly on track and found the khlong (canal) I needed to walk adjacent too in order to find my first Temple, Wat Thamma Phi Rata Ram.

Here it was only to be a brief stop. A decent morning market was taking place and I was gawked at like I was an escaped convict, so this temple was rushed. My excitement for the morning was reserved however for Wat Phaiton the only Temple located in the Phayathai district. Believe it or not.

Morning merit making runs beside the Viharn until midday.

I used too many “I’s in this blog. I promise to do better next time.

Below is the remainder of my temple walk in photos.