This impressive Wat can be found behind The Princes Royal College which lies on Kaewnarawat rd, the main road out to Arcade Bus Station, Chiang Mai. Just turn left down the soi immediately before the college(coming from the river), and then right and you will see the entrance.
The compound contains extensive accommodation buildings for its Monks and Novices as well as equally extensive school buildings.
Immediately on your right as you come in is home to a well respected Thai massage training course for local Thais.
There is a large courtyard with many trees offering plenty of shelter from the sun.
The Temple itself is quite large.
Inside there are many scenes from Buddhas story adorning the walls in that splendid traditional painting to be seen in so many of Chiang Mais temples.
To the left of the main temple is a large wooden Vihara.
My visit here was short, just dropping of my partner somboon who was trying the massage course.
Should i have reason to return I will be sure to get more photos and hopefully more info.
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Yet another trip into Chiang Mai. This time it was back to the second hand motorcy market to get the registration book for the bike we bought last week.
Finally meeting him there, we went to Mee Mee Cafe for ice coffee before going to check out the bikes.
As we searched around for something in the 5-6000 bracket for Marc, we bumped into a few old faces we had got to know as customers in The Brick Road Cafe; Roger , Sam and Bill.
Then it was in to The Brick Road to say ‘hi’ to the staff , chill with a cold drink and watch the Sunday Walking Street Market set up. We actually hung out for a couple of hours, and I couldn’t resist ordering a plate of those great British Chips, still the best in town. After saying hello to a few of our old market stall friends we headed back home at around 5.30pm as it began to threaten rain.
Coming back to the house first, to find the Honda registration book for Marc, we then rode over to the Childrens Home. Marcs only just learning on a motorcy, having had a couple of lessons from Guy at the home, so it was a slow ride over with me and Boon leading the way.
We had no mad rush so relaxed here in the morning, taking a late breakfast at the local cafe and heading into Chiang Mai at around midday.
Wat Chetupon is not such a big Temple but has some extensive ‘school’ buildings and its compound contains many trees, facilitating a very relaxing atmosphere.
On the way out we came across the Saturday walking street market that is also located behind The Prince Royals College. We saw all sorts for sale there, from hotdogs, to motorbikes; t-shirts to exhaust pipes.
Chompoo really is a delightful village, centred around the local Temple and canal.
It looked like it would be quite a while before the market really got going and we decided to head home.
