There are hundreds of wats in Chiang Mai, and everyone has a personal favorite, Wat Umong was not mine. It was chosen to practice low-light photography, and because it has a very creepy Buddha graveyard. A damaged Buddha statue may not be disposed of in any old garbage can, it must be reverently brought to a wat and buried. So, this place has hundreds of broken Buddha statues of every conceivable shape and size, staring out at the visitors. Actually, some were not staring, because they were headless, others had no bodies – it was unsettling. Some of our group were fascinated by the Buddha graveyard, and couldn’t get enough. I was not as inspired, but after seeing what they captured, I should probably give it another go… next trip.
The building itself is 700 years old, and mostly submerged and accessed by a maze of tunnels, which usually ended at a shrine of some kind. We visited three wats that day, and I wanted to submit one image from each. The picture of the chedi is more of a documentation shot, so I chose this one:
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