Originally Posted by
ftrichard
You may not be a temple kind of person, which is fine, but you cannot make comparisons like that. Angkor Wat is a sprawling, ancient ruin. The various temples and palaces in Bangkok are living, breathing properties. The experiences, if visiting temples is your thing, are utterly different. You may as well tell them to skip Sacre Coeur in Paris or La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona because, you know, they won't compare to the ruins at Angkor Wat and they're all places of worship and that so basically the same.
Yes, of course you’re right. One needs to be careful in Bangkok ,though, when visiting temples/wats....you might end up in one run by the loony monk charged with kidnapping and torturing police officers, or the one with the drugged tigers ( there to be petted by the moronic Khao SAN Rd brigade, prior to being disposed of and sent to China for making “medicine”), or those run by the drug dealing, private jet monks, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.
Stick the the main , better known ones and there is a chance you might encounter something genuine.