Buddha Temple at Ab Nom and Brahma Temple at Hat Yai
I had been to Thailand with my friends and I was told about these 2 temples about my Malaysian Tamil friend. Seems he has been advised by one of his Malaysian Chinese friend to go to these 2 temples during tough times. And they have seem tremendous results after visiting these 2 temples.
How to reach ?
Ab Nom is in just before Hat Yai. If you are going from Malaysia, cross the border at Danok and keep travelling straight for almost 40 kms. Just before Hat Yai, you will find a over bridge which cuts across. Left to your road is "Khuan Lang" and "Pattani" is in the right. Take the right and after travelling almost 8 kms you will find the temple on your right.
What to do ?
There is a brahma statue in Ab Nom temple and they are also building a Vinayagar statue. There are 2 small temples inside where the bodies of the monks are preserved. We are supposed to go and pray and then meet the monk who is present now. Before that we have to take bath with the holy water, which you can buy for 200 bahts. They also give you a towel. We took bath and we are supposed to throw that towel (not use again) and them meet the monk. The monk offers prayers, does lot of rituals and tie-us with a holy thread and also gives a small Buddha statue which we can put in a locket and tie it with our chain. It is up to our wish to offer something at the temple here.
After this we have to go to the temple at Brahma temple Hat Yai.
How to reach the Brahma temple at Hat Yai ?
You have to come back the same way, reach the over bridge, take a left before the bridge, turn right to reach Hat Yai. Just take the Hat Yai main road and reach the Nakhon Hat Yai municipal public park after the Prince of Songkla University and the military camp.
Go into the park, ask for the Buddha temple and you can reach the Buddha temple by climbing a small hill through the municipal public park.
There are 2 ways to reach the Brahma temple.
1. You can take a cable car from the Buddha statue and reach the Brahma temple. It will cost 200 bahts for one person and it reaches the temple directly.
2. You can drive by taking a cut near the solar observatory just before the Buddha temple. One small problem is, you have to walk a few metres to reach the temple and I would advise to take the cable car if there are any old people.
What to do at Hat Yai Brahma temple ?
You are advised to reach there before 6 pm as the temple closes by 8 pm. Buy agar bathis and crackers as you are supposed to burst them before you leave the temple.
This temple has a big 3 faced elephant at the entrance and the main God is a four faced Brahma. There are lots of elephant statues in the temple and you can light candles are agar bathis at each face of the Brahma. There are 3 statues near the Brahma statue - Shiva, Amman and Vinayagar. You can light candles and agar bathis here and at the end you can burst crackers. Crackers, candles and agar bathis are sold at the shop in the temple, but they close by 6 pm.
Overall it was a nice divine experience and you can check out some photos of my trip which are uploaded in facebook.
