Beer Bottle Bhuddist Temple of Khun Han

Posted by hypnos1 on February 18, 2009

Daily Mail, UK: Built using more than a million beer bottles, this incredible temple in the north-east of Thailand is a novel way to recycle any empties.

The resident Buddhist monks at the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew complex encourage local authorities to deposit any used bottles at the temple which they then use to build new structures.

‘Even though drinking is a sin in Buddhism, this still seems like a positive use of beer and lager bottles’ said one tourist at the site.

Representing the cleansing of the human mind, the beer-bottle-temple is now on an approved list of eco-friendly sightseeing tours in South-East Asia.

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