Oddity temple (day trip)
Wat Samphran (Dragon Temple)
Sam Phran District, Nakhon Pathom (about 40 km west of Bangkok, day trip). Address per Trip.com and Inwanderment: 92/8, Sam Phran, Sam Phran District, Nakhon Pathom 73110., Nakhon Pathom, Thailand
A 17-story rose-pink cylindrical tower wrapped by a colossal green dragon whose hollow body forms a staircase-tunnel you climb to the top. It sits 40 km outside Bangkok in Nakhon Pathom, so it is off the standard temple-tour circuit and rewards a self-guided day trip rather than an app-booked tour.
The rose pink cylindrical tower of Wat Samphran wrapped by its giant green dragon sculpture (Drachentempel is German for dragon temple). Photo by Angsyl, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hours
Booking site listingRoughly 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM per Trip.com, but sources conflict on opening time and weekday hours (see notes).
“Open today at 7:00 AM–6:00 PM”
trip.com · Checked 24 Jul 2026
Price
Booking site listingFree entry. A donation is requested to climb the dragon tower. One blog cites 80 THB for the ascent, another traveler reported giving 100 THB.
“Free (donations welcome)”
trip.com · Checked 24 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
VERIFY PASS (fresh re-fetch 2026-07-24): all three cited pages re-fetched this run and every snippet confirmed word for word. Trip.com returned "Free (donations welcome)" and "Open today at 7:00 AM-6:00 PM" exactly as claimed. Thailandee returned "a donation of 80 THB is requested to pay for the electricity for the…
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