Wat Nong Chab Tao — Local services in Chon Buri Province

Unique temple with a main turtle theme that is impressive and diverse. a more standard white snake temple with a moat. a pet cremation facility and more standard seperate cremation facility.

it is beautiful, easy to find, close to Pattaya less than 30 minutes and about 10 minutes from several other popular attractions such as Khao Chi Chan (Buddha Mountain), Viharn Sien and Chinese style temple and museum plus access to a lake allowing the release of fish, frogs, turtles and Wat Yansangwararam. in addition Noong Nooch gardens are close. there are several restaurants including the Italian themed Bella that has several photo opportunities.

the temple has enough parking for now but if it becomes popular with tourists they will need more parking, there are a couple of vendors selling snacks and coffee. they have decent restroom facilities and most everything is wheelchair accessible. either flat, ramp. one ramp is steep tho and one building a step over.

the main Turtle worship building has several worship stations. the larger blue turtle is designed to walk thru enough to the monks station, to the right side are several smaller turtles with dragon heads for each day of the week plus, there are several stone worship balls to cover with gold leaf, further to the back is the monk receiving area with 2 or 3 worship areas, back out in the main turtle area is a godess statue over water to allow for placing the floating flowers. on the left side of the turtle is a pleasant area with a Buddha worship area and tables to both relax in the shade as well as allow writing on metal plate for a seperate worship area. next to this on the outside of the building are several large rocks with smooth face each paying respect to a Buddha, king or each of the 12 animal from the Chinese zodiac. between this and the building are 12 more animal zodiac figures with the body of a turtle and head of the animal.

next to this building is a small but ornate with temple with a moat and protected by 2 snakes. it has a ramped walkway. the main entry gate and temple wall are attractive with snake and turtle...

Visit this temple while I was heading to Laser Buddha. This place is almost empty, and no one there to ask for anything.

I stopped because social media shows this is an ideal place. I do not know if I saw another place. Directions were correct. Seems it's not the place I saw on social media.

This is not disrespectful to Thai culture or people. Something was off there. No...

Well worth stopping bye here to see the beautiful painted nagas spouting water and the many different animal representations cloaked as winged turtles. A large, colourful painted turtle acts as a centre piece that you can walk through. Several shrines here, along with a gleaming white standing buddha statue. There are plenty of parking spaces just inside...