After morning breakfast checkout from Pattaya hotel and proceed for Bangkok Hotel. Hotel Check in and Relax. Half Day City Temple Tour - Shared Tour 2 Temple - Golden & Marble Buddha and Gems Gallery Pick up timing: 08:00-08:30 Pick up from Hotel morning or afternoon departure • We drive you around majestic skyscrapers and crowded streets before making our first stop at Wat Traimit. This temple houses the magnificent statue of Golden Buddha – world’s largest solid gold statue weighing an impressive 5. 5 tons! This is your chance to bring out your photography skills! • We later proceed to Wat Benchamabophit – The marble temple! It is one of Bangkok’s most modern and yet striking temples. • The oldest temple in Bangkok, dating back to the 17th century, Wat Pho houses more than 1, 000 Buddha images in addition to the huge reclining figure. • Bangkok temple Tour includes impressive Temple place that is located within easy reach from Bangkok’s Chinatown. • Wat Traimit is famous because it houses the world’s largest giant golden Buddha statue, 10 feet high and weighing 5 ½ tons and is made of 18 karats • pure gold estimated to be worth $250 million. This Buddha statue have a quite a legend, it survived Burmese invasion, was kept hidden in plaster of Paris for most of the century. Then finally make its way from Ayutthaya to Bangkok. It is said to have been moved in 1801, when King Rama 1 ordered all statues depicting Lord Buddha to be moved to Bangkok. • Wat Benchamabophit is most commonly known to tourists as The Marble Temple A European influence can be found here, not only in the Italian marble used here but also in the stained glass windows found here. This temple exhibits unique fusion of Turkish & Thai architecture. Construction of the temple began in 1899 at the request of King Chulalongkorn after building his palace nearby. The temple's name literally means the Temple of the fifth King located nearby Dusit Palace. It has a display of Carrara marble pillars, a marble courtyard and two large singhaslions guarding the entrance to the bot. • The interiors are decorated with crossbeams of lacquer and gold and in shallow niches in the walls of paintings of important stupas all over the country. The cloister around the assembly hall houses 52 images of Buddha. • The main statute of Buddha in this temple is a copy of Phra Buddha Chinarat that resides in Phitsanulok in northern Thailand. The ashes of King Chulalongkorn are buried beneath the statue. Which also makes it very close to Thais. In the gallery surrounding the ordination hall are 52 buddha statues each showing different mudras signs, collected by Prince Damrong Rajanubhabfor his king. • The oldest temple in Bangkok, dating back to the 17th century, Wat Pho houses more than 1, 000 Buddha images in addition to the huge reclining figure, which is over 150 feet 46 m in length and 49 feet 15 m high. • Wat Pho is the birthplace of traditional Thai massage. Even prior to the temple's founding, the site was a center of education for traditional Thai medicine, and statues were created showing yoga positions. Wat Pho is the largest and oldest wat in Bangkok and is home to more than 1, 000 Buddha images, more than any other temple in the country.