Mae Hong Son - Wat Kam Ko

Photo Gallery of a temple standing peacefully but lonely, Wat Kam Ko, in Mae Hong Son of Northern Thailand.

Mae Hong Son is about 300 km to the northwest from Chiang Mai, and it's close to the border between Thailand and Myanmar. It will take about 40 minutes from Chiang Mai by air (if my memory is correct. :D ).

Mae Hong Son is famous for Long Neck Tribe - Ban Nai Soi, the beautiful temples at the edge of a lake, Wat Chong Kham / What Chong Klang and the temple on top of a mountain, Wat Phra That Doi Kong Mu reported on a different page.
Check out the Mae Hong Son top page for other spots.
A temple standing peacefully but lonely, Wat Kam Ko in Mae Hong Son.
It made me feel like that, I guess it was because of the rain.

I ever had visited a lot of temples in Thailand, from southern to northern areas but I had never seen this kind of temples: This temple had a string of red gates to the main hall like a Japanese shrine with the series of red Toriis (shrine gates).

The explanation in the temple says as follows:

Kam Ko is a Tai word for Dok Bunnak in Thai or Ceylon ironwood flower. Wat Kam Ko is an old temple built in 1890 A.D. in a beautiful architectural style. One outstanding aspect is a roofed passage connecting the entrance gate with the Sala, the pavilion.

The temple also houses textbooks in Tai language on the Tai history and King Anawrahta, which has already been translated into Thai by Phra Maha Bunrak Supanyo, (the abbot.)