Temple of bottles

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Temple of bottles

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This amazing buddhist temple was built by Thai monks using discarded glass bottles –

Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles to build the Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew temple.

Buddhist Temple Built from Beer Bottles

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