WAT?! ANOTHER CHEDI?! - CHIANG MAI, THAILAND

On our first trip to this  Northern Thai City, the words Wat and Chedi became oh so familiar.  In Chiang Mai it seems, there is a "Wat" with it's accompanying "Chedi" around nearly every corner. I have to admit to looking up these words in the dictionary so I would be better able to recognize which was "Wat" and what was Chedi!  A Wat is a Buddhist monastry or temple, a Chedi (also known as a Stupa) is a "bell shaped tower or mound like structure containing Buddhist relics", Buddhism being the predominant religion in Thailand.

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