Offbeat naga cave temple
Wat Maneewong
Dong Lakhon, Mueang Nakhon Nayok District, Nakhon Nayok, Nakhon Nayok, Thailand
A free temple built around a man-made naga cave packed with more than a thousand colored serpent statues and a golden Buddha, a walk-through mythical underworld that almost no foreign visitor reaches.
Wat Maneewong (Wat Maniwong) temple in Nakhon Nayok province, the temple built around the naga cave and colored serpent statues Photo by Chainwit., CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hours
Booking site listingOpens daily at 7:00 AM. Trip.com lists closing at 5:00 PM. Wanderlog lists Mon to Fri 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sat to Sun 7:00 AM to 5:30 PM. Closing time varies by source between 5:00 PM and about 6:00 PM.
“Open daily from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM”
trip.com · Checked 25 Jul 2026
Price
Booking site listingFree entry, no admission fee to visit the naga cave (donations welcome for upkeep)
“Admission is free. Free entry, no charges for visiting the Naga cave”
trip.com · Checked 25 Jul 2026
Age suitability
Not verifiedNot verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.
Checked 24 Jul 2026
Caveats
VERIFIED this run. Re-fetched the Trip.com moments/theme page fresh: it states "Admission is free" and the price snippet "Free entry, no charges for visiting the Naga cave" appears word for word, and the hours snippet "Open daily from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM" appears. Independently re-fetched Wanderlog, which confirms free…
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