Famous temple among the Chinese on Chinese new Year : Cave Shrine in Saraburee

Driving a bit further from Wat Phraputthabat, we arrived to "Rong Jee tham Pratun", directly translated to English as "Vegetarian cafeteria Pratun cave". At this cave, situated the Tiger god shrine. The shrine is located inside the cave and the vegetarian cafeteria is located in the front beside the shrine.

 From the picture, the entrance of the cave.

This shrine also sell one of the best tea I have ever tasted. It is the shrine's own herbal tea recipe. There are tea tank all over the place offer to the visitors. You can choose either hot/cold tea. If you like, you can also buy the pack of tea back home. 

Inside the cave, there are several small shrines situated all over the cave spots.

Another spot, there is the pagoda, built during the King Rama the fourth. Inside the temple, there is also the holy water which people usually take some and pour it on their head, or wash their face for their good luck.

Not only it is the shrine, this place is also the old people house. Every Chinese New year, they will come out sit on the chairs and wait for the kind minded people to donate some money to them.

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Mosques and Muslim community in Minburi, Bangkok

We visited the leader of the Soh man community. 

Khun Peerapong on the left and, Khun Charoen ,on the right  who is the owner of the boat.

Along Khlong San sap, around Minburi and Nong chok. It is the residential area for the Muslim communities. In this area, there are Buddhist temples, Mosques and the Catholic Church. Though there are 3 religious but it is one of the peaceful area. People in this area are doing hard work to keep the canal clean. They are awarded as the best community to keep Khlong Sansap in such a good condition. You can even swim in this canal.

Below picture shows the Mosque Kamalul Islam.

 Almost 200 years ago, Muslim people who resided in this area immigrated from the south of Thailand. Their main career was farmer.  When the King Rama the fifth visited this mosque, the mosque was just a small wooden house. There was the big pile of sand on the ground.  The king asked "what this pile of sand is for?" The local answered that it was meant for the building of the mosque.

Since then, The king has given the name to this mosque as “sulao saai gong din”. Sulao means mosque in Thai. Saai means sand. Gong din means piling on the ground. Altogether, directly translated as the mosque that has the big pile of sand on the ground.

There are about 2000 families in this community which accounted about 20000 people.

Baan koh mosque is one of the biggest dome mosque in Thailand. Every weekend at this mosque, there is the Baan koh floating market. There are Muslim restaurants, local Muslim goods and services. Sometimes they have the performance show on the stage by the little Muslim students.

Muslim women group prepared and sold the famous ROTI!

Roti is a kind of Muslim snack. It is the flour fried with butter and topping it with condensed milk and sugar. Sometimes, you can add banana or egg if you like.