Wat Tham Seua; the 'Temple of the Tiger Cave' is built into a cave set in a limestone cliff.

Surrounded by individual monk's residences; this is one of southern Thailand's best-known forest temples.

The main viharn or assembly hall extends into a long; shallow limestone cave displaying various grim reminders of mortality as a counterbalance to worldly desires. At the back of the cave a flight of marble stairs lead up to the 'tiger cave' itself. Within there is a venerated Buddha footprint on a gilded platform and a life-size figure of Ajaan Jamnien; the temple's enigmatic abbot.

The sprawling temple grounds are partly landscaped; and there are two separate stairways leading to a large Guan Yin image (the Mahayana Buddhist version of the Indian sage Avalokitesvara; known generally as 'the Chinese Goddess of Mercy'); and to another Buddha footprint.

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