Want to witness a beautiful yet bizarre piece of creation that will surely vary your temple touring experience at Vientiane? Welcome to Buddha Park! This strange, yet intriguing place contains numerous Buddhist and Hindu statues, some conventional, others are just flat out weird, for a lack of a better word. You will defiantly be intrigued and bedazzled!
So, what is Buddha Park? Buddha Park is an outdoor sculpture park and garden containing over 200 cement statues built representing the Buddha, deities and animals (both real and imaginary) and Hindu gods and mythical beings. The statues have been sculptured to look as if it were centuries old, which add to the place’s overall peculiar ambiance. The park has got a ‘Alice in Wonderland’ feel to it, except that this is real and is stylized to represent Southeast Asian mystical lore! The park is over 50 years old and is built by Bunleua Sulilat, who also constructed a similar themed sculpture park near Nong Khai in Thailand.
Where is Buddha Park? It is not too far from Vientiane, located about 20 kilometers away from the capital and about 5 kilometers east of the Friendship Bridge. If you are looking to spend a day away from Vientiane or are yearning for some strangeness as you enter Laos from Thailand or vice versa, Buddha Park will not disappoint.
What should you do when you get to Buddha Park? Take pictures of course! Or shoot videos. The area offers great photo and video opportunities. You can even climb on these structures and pose with them! There is a large reclining Buddha statue in the park that is not only impressive, but is also approachable and climbable for your picture-taking needs. This is certainly the park’s signature image.
You can also get a view of the entire park. How do you get up there? First, look for a giant pumpkin statue with a dead tree gushing out from the top. Then search for the entrance. It is not hard to find, just notice a demon with a large wide open mouth. Enter it (do not worry, it is just a statue). If you thought the outer structure was strange, then take a look at what’s inside this pumpkin! Yes, even more weird images. Anyways, inside this pumpkin is a set of stairs that lead to the top. Once you are up there, just grab your camera, point it at your desired direction and press the shutter-release button. A nice view of the park it certainly is; one of the weirdest statues you’ll ever come across, it just might be.
Buddha Park is certainly one of the strangest places out there in Southeast Asia. Seeing is believing! You can experience Buddha Park and all of its odd and bizarre elements while you are in Vientiane in Exotissimo’s Indochina Heritage Road tour. We will take you there first thing in the morning on the fourth day of this program. These images will certainly leave a lasting impression on you!
You can also look to add a Buddha Park excursion while you are in Vientiane in any of our Laos or multi-country tours. You can also tweak and fine-tune any of our tours to suit your holiday needs. Just contact us and let us know.
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