Hell Garden At Wat Muang

The best collection of figures at Wat Muang is reserved for the Hell Garden, a special section devoted to themes of torture and horrible misery. The scenes serve as a warning to those folks who stray from the divine ways of Buddhism. Or the figures are artisans run amok.

The Hell ambassadors, all sunken chested and long tongued.

The most hellish thing? Busloads of school kids are shuffled through the place. Never too early to scare 'em straight. Dogs are in on the pain delivery.

Oh, the variety of hell punishment. Mere stabbing and puncturing are so vanilla hell. Tie your hands up, saw your arms off, now we're talking a good recipe for abuse.

Let the punishment fit the crime. Squeezing your belly, probably for pregnancy. Getting meta. After your head is chopped off, you gotta walk around with it on display. Tricky.

Looking down at pure hell. Lesson learned!

Figuratively Speaking At Wat Muang

Having one of the world's biggest Buddhas is just a warm up. The real fun at Wat Muang is wandering the vast collection of painted concrete figures. The usual legends, morality tales and fables are illustrated. Fun for the whole believing family.

Great battles are always popular, especially against your neighbor, Myanmar. Fight!

Being injured isn't pretty. Eat concrete and bleed out.

Getting old stinks. In Thailand, dogs chase you up a tree.

Lessons in creative stabbing. Slice a shoulder, axe a head.

How about spearing a throat?  So many weapons, so many bodies.

She monster. One of the lineups of figures that could be you, lest you be turned into one of them. Punishment knows many hideous manifestations.

Maybe being an alien ape could be fun.

Fine Figures At The Ancient City

Beyond the historical structures at the Ancient City outdoor museum park, there are plenty of sculptures and figures scattered about the complex. Some historical, some silly, all worth a glance.

Riding among the nagas, snake heads.

You can't go wrong with animals, whether a fox or momma rhino and her baby.

Exotic.

Fables illustrated with painful positions.

Ancient beauty.