Three wats and a mosque

A tall wooden Buddha 'totem' 

I went to check out the temples in Pai, there's only three in the city from what I can tell, a lot more manageable than in Chiang Mai where there were probably a hundred!

Although I've seen so many buddhist temples since I've been here, they each are unique.

During one of the festivals in Chiang Mai I saw people buying sheets of gold leaf to cover a statue to gain merit.

Many of the wats have seven or eight buddhas in various poses.  They represent each day of the week, with two on Wednesday, one for the day and one for the night.  These relate to the day of the week on which you were born.  I was born on a Wednesday night.

I guess they can't kill the hornets!

Off to one side was  neat little alcove
an old statue

Many of the temples have areas where women are not allowed.  Makes me curious!

From the front it doesn't look particularly special, but when I walked around the back I realized that the entire structure was built around a tree, and from what I can tell, all of the statues are carved out of pieces from it!