Samut Prakan (Phra Pradaeng district)

Phra Pradaeng lies on the west bank of the Chao Phraya, south of Bangkok, and takes in the loop of the river known as Bang Krachao. In the early nineteenth century, during the reign of Rama II, a fortified town named Nakhon Khuean Khan was founded here to guard the river approach to the capital, and Mon families were settled in it. The Mon community has left a lasting mark, still seen in its temples and in the Phra Pradaeng Songkran celebrations, which keep its customs alive. Today Bang Krachao retains orchards, canals and stilt-house villages, while the plastic recycling centre at Wat Chak Daeng links monastic life with the recovery of waste.

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People and nature
Buddhist temple
Samut Prakan (Phra Pradaeng)
Wat Chak Daeng Temple Plastic Recycling Center
In a common temple on the bend of the Chao Phraya, a monk has made plastic waste into a subject for teaching, and the bottles donated by the faithful into the thread of monastic robes.

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