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Na Muang Waterfall is a pair of waterfalls in the forested hills of south-western Ko Samui, near route 4169 between Na Muang and Hua Thanon. The lower fall, Na Muang 1, drops about 20 metres over orange and purple rock into a pool near the road; Na Muang 2 lies higher up the stream and is reached on a walking trail.
Wat Khunaram is a Buddhist temple on route 4169 between Na Muang and Hua Thanon, about 6 km west of Lamai on Ko Samui. It is the shrine of the monk Luang Pho Daeng, who died in 1973 and asked for his body to be displayed as a reminder of the transience of life; it sits upright in a glass case in the temple.
Hin Ta and Hin Yai, the Grandfather and Grandmother Rocks, are two granite formations on the rocky shore at the southern end of Lamai Beach on Ko Samui. Shaped by the sea into forms resembling male and female genitals, they are tied to a local legend of an elderly couple, and a path leads past souvenir stalls to the boulders.
Wat Phra Yai, known in English as the Big Buddha Temple, stands on Ko Phan, a small islet joined to the north-east coast of Ko Samui by a causeway, about 3 km north of the airport. Its 12-metre gold-painted Buddha statue, built in 1972, sits in the Mara posture at the top of a staircase lined with naga serpents.
Wat Plai Laem is a modern Buddhist temple in the north-east of Ko Samui, near Wat Phra Yai, whose design blends Chinese and Thai traditions and was partly by the artist Jarit Phumdonming. Its lake holds an ordination hall on a platform and an open-air statue of the eighteen-armed Guanyin, with a white statue of Budai and shrines to Hindu deities nearby.
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