Monk Temple built from Reused Glass Bottles

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One night in Bangkok and the world’s your oyster. But what about the rest of Thailand? Journey with me, if you please, 370 miles to the north-east of Bangkok to the Wat Pa Maha Chedio KaewSisaket temple (nicknamed Wat Lan Kuad, or “Temple of a Million Glass Bottles”).


Wat Lan Kuad monks started collecting discarded glass bottles way back in 1984 so they could decorate their buildings. Apparently, their creativity with how they reused the glass bottles inspired tourists to start bringing bottles to the temple. Today, their seemingly fragile (yet actually pretty sturdy) temple is infused with over a million reused glass bottles! Hot dang!

I’ll leave you with some pictures of this magnificient temple. It’s purty cool how they used the glass bottles and even the metal caps of the bottles. ¡Disfrute los fotos!





I found out about this from good ol’ Been-Seen, who in turn found out about it from some Yahoo page that don’t exist no more.

Posted in green construction, reusing on Saturday, December 6th, 2008 at 11:53 AM.

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bombaymom · 849 weeks ago

amazing! I was close to there, 3 yrs. ago...sorry I missed it. I'm saving orange juice cans, now...
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Ann Ellis · 841 weeks ago

I have been there! Its beautiful and cool in there but its not quite finished so you could go back and see it for yourself. Leave a donation if not money take some bottles.
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Georgie · 839 weeks ago

Wow have you actually been there?
It seems to be a trend at the moment.. check out http://bit.ly/3FSDX

Pretty cool hey!?
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ecojoe 69p · 839 weeks ago

Nay, I have not been there, not yet at least. That is cool. It'd be awesome to have a whole city made of recycled/reused mess...
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Georgie · 839 weeks ago

Perhaps we should start it... you in the States - me in England.. meet in the middle??? Hmmm interesting blog piece! haha
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ecojoe 69p · 839 weeks ago

I've started, I have a hut made of old cardboard boxes so far. Every journey has to begin with a first step, yeah?
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Georgie · 839 weeks ago

Ha true, I'll start with the beer bottles.. seem to have a lot of them in our recycling bin for some reason?

Question is - what to build?
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ecojoe 69p · 839 weeks ago

A glasshouse made out of beer bottles would be awesome; I ain't sure if it'd let enough sun through, though. It's worth a shot to try!
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Georgie · 839 weeks ago

On to it.. Will let you know when have pictures!!
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Georgie · 839 weeks ago

Attempt one.. check.. Tea party! http://goldie27.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/recyclo-...
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ecojoe 69p · 839 weeks ago

Wow, that was fast. That's some speedy tea-cup-making.
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visit here · 634 weeks ago

I think there is something unique about the Monk Temple built from reused glass bottles. The pictures clearly show the creativity of the temple. It is like another world wonder. I really hope you put more and more pictures and features into it.

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