SUPERMODEL AMBER CHIA VISITS WORLD FAMOUS WHITE TEMPLE OR WAT WHITE (?) IN CHIANGRAI . THIS WHITE TEMPLE IS THE TALK OF THE RELIGIOUS BUDDHIST WORLD AS IT IS A PURE, SHEER LABOUR OF LOVE AND DEDICATED TO THE LATE AND GREAT KING BHUMIBOL OR KING RAMA 9 BY THAILAND'S MOST FAMOUS AND ACCOMPLISHED ARTIST CHALERMCHAI KOSITPIPAT WHO DREAMED, CONCEIVED, CONSTRUCTED AND DECORATED THIS WHITE TEMPLE FROM SCRATCH ON A PIECE OF LAND N CHIANGRAI WHICH IS NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE MORE WELLKNOWN CHIANGMAI SOME 4 HOURS DRIVE AWAY. THOUGH THE MAIN TEMPLES AND STATUES ARE PAINTED WHITE, THERE ARE SOME STRUCTURES IN GOLD AS IT CAN BE VERY DREARY AND MONOTONOUS IF EVERY SINGLE STATUE, STAND AND STRUCTURE IS PAINTED WHITE. THE ARTIST CHALERMCHAI KOSITPIPAT TOLD ME WHEN I MET HIM SOME 7 YEARS AGO HE ACCEPTS DONATIONS IN CASH AND KIND PROVIDED THE DONOR DOES NOT TELL HIM WHAT TO DO OR INTERFERES WITH HIS WORK. HE SAYS "IF THE DONOR SAYS I WILL GIVE YOU THIS MUCH MONEY PROVIDED YOU USE IT TO DO THIS OR THAT THEN I SAY TAHNK YOU BUT NO THANKS I WILL NOT ACCEPT. I HAVE MY OWN VISION AND I WANT TO BUILT THIS WHITE TEMPLE BASED ON MY VISION. SO I PREFER USE MY OWN RESOURCES AND MONEY SO I CAN DO WHAT I WANT! THIS TEMPLE MAY TAKE ANOTHER 20 OR 50 YEARS TO COMPLETE. I WILL NOT BE ALIVE TO SEE THE COMPLETION BUT WE THAIS THINK IN TERMS OF GENERATIONS!" CHALERMCHAI KOSITPIPAT IS 63 SO THERE IS PLENTY OF TIME TO LIVE TO SEE THE COMPLETION OF HIS DREAM CAST IN WHITE!

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PHOTOS BY CANON POWERSHOT SX 720 HS 
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WAT RONG KHUN IS THE THAI NAME FOR WHITE TEMPLE THOUGH I THINK THE NAME 'WAT WHITE' IS BETTER AS 'WAT WHITE' IS SO COOL.

WAT RONG KHUN IS LAVISHED WITH WHITE GLASS PIECES PAINSTAKINGLY EMBEDDED INTO WALLS TO SYMBOLISE THE TEACHINGS OF BUDDHISM WHILE WHITE DENOTES THE PRISTINE PURITY OF THE HISTORICAL BUDDHA WHO ONCE LIVED AND WALKED AMONG MEN.

IT IS WORTH A TRIP TO CHIANGRAI JUST TO MARVEL AND GAWK AT THIS SPECTACULAR VISION IN WHITE CONCRETE!

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 SUPERMODEL AMBER CHIA AND SUPERBLOGGER DATO KEE HUA CHEE IN FRONT OF A GOLDEN BUILDING WHICH HAPPENS TO CONTAIN THE TOILETS! AND VERY CLASSY AND CLEAN ONES TOO! 

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PHOTOS BELOW ARE IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FROM WHEN WE DISEMBARKED FROM OUR LUXURY COACH TO BIDDING FAREWELL TO WHITE TEMPLE WHERE WE SPENT A TRULY DIVINE TIME AND I AM SO BLESSED TO RETURN HERE AGAIN AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE.