Temple route page

Surat Thani temple and religious-site route.

route/culture/etiquette/weather module, not attraction-list copy exact hours, closures, ceremonies, ticketing, crowd/review signals are unstable.

Route call

destination-page support module; promote only if route coverage grows

6 tracked sites 2 anchor pages medium/needs validation source strength

Main static risk

exact hours, closures, ceremonies, ticketing, crowd/review signals are unstable

Live checks to keep open

weather/AQI, opening/closure, event/festival, transport/traffic, review-volume only as live catalog

Before you book

Use the Temple Route page with the current trip checks

This temple route page is not claiming a page-specific current score. Use it as the static guide, then check Today, route, and comparison pages before paying for anything hard to change.

TodayCurrent destination calls and weak signals. CompareSide-by-side destination evidence. Route checkTransfer risk, weak legs, and pivots. Source notesOpen the receipts when you want to inspect them.

Temple route snapshot

Use this first before you start collecting named temples. The route can break on heat, AQI, traffic, closures, or ceremony access long before the site list looks wrong.

Temple route snapshot
Field	Value
Recommended treatment	destination-page support module; promote only if route coverage grows
Best decision use	route/culture/etiquette/weather module, not attraction-list copy
Top anchors	Suan Mokkh / Wat Than Nam Lai / Wat Phra Borommathat Chaiya
Main static risk	exact hours, closures, ceremonies, ticketing, crowd/review signals are unstable
Live signal candidates	weather/AQI / opening/closure / event/festival / transport/traffic / review-volume only as live catalog
Source strength	medium/needs validation

Anchor sites

Suan Mokkh / Wat Than Nam Lai
Wat Phra Borommathat Chaiya

Watch

exact hours, closures, ceremonies, ticketing, crowd/review signals are unstable
Hours, ticketing, and ceremony access stay live-only.
Review counts and crowd spikes are useful as crowd proxies, not as cultural truth.

Source stack

Canonical Buddhist or religious identity
Heritage and monument status
Tourist-facing visitor context
Map geometry and transport access

Anchor and specialized site pages

These are the highest-signal sites promoted into the live /temples/ layer for this city.

Surat Thani · Anchor

Wat Phra Borommathat Chaiya

Use as ferry-gateway culture support; Chaiya and Don Sak are separate road/ferry-route nodes.

active Buddhist temple / historical temple Surat Thani · Anchor

Suan Mokkh / Wat Than Nam Lai

Use as ferry-gateway culture support; Chaiya and Don Sak are separate road/ferry-route nodes.

forest monastery

Secondary and support sites

These sites still matter to the route, but they stay inside the city page until live-check coverage or public demand gets stronger.

Secondary and support sites
Site	Priority	Area	Why it matters
Wat Khao Suwan Pradit	Secondary	Don Sak	Use as ferry-gateway culture support; Chaiya and Don Sak are separate road/ferry-route nodes.
Wat Tham Singkhon	Secondary	Khiri Rat Nikhom / cave route	Use as ferry-gateway culture support; Chaiya and Don Sak are separate road/ferry-route nodes.
Surat Thani City Pillar Shrine	Support	Surat Thani city	Use as ferry-gateway culture support; Chaiya and Don Sak are separate road/ferry-route nodes.
Wat Sai	Support	Surat Thani city	Use as ferry-gateway culture support; Chaiya and Don Sak are separate road/ferry-route nodes.

Source appendix

This city packet depends on a mixed source stack. Use the official or heritage source first, then only add catalog or map layers when they improve the traveler decision.

Source appendix
Source	Type	Evidence level	Used for sites
TAT Surat Thani	official	official city/province source	Suan Mokkh / Wat Than Nam Lai; Surat Thani City Pillar Shrine; Wat Khao Suwan Pradit; Wat Phra Borommathat Chaiya; Wat Sai; Wat Tham Singkhon

Related traveler pages

Temple research package Surat Thani temple research brief Surat Thani destination guide Surat Thani stay guide Surat Thani food guide Surat Thani food-route research Surat Thani city research brief Thailand route check Thailand today

Show the source notes behind this temple route page

Authority order

Temple pages should start with the most reliable identity or heritage source, not with review or map popularity.

Authority order
Rank	Source layer
1	Legal Buddhist identity: ONAB temple registry
2	Public religious-site fields: DRA Buddhist and non-Buddhist religious-site datasets
3	Ancient monument / ruin status: Fine Arts Department
4	Tourist-facing metadata: TAT and DASTA
5	Coordinates and local map tags: OpenStreetMap / Overpass
6	Images, aliases, and global IDs: Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
7	Reviews and live opening status: commercial POI enrichment only when licensed

Matching rules

Repeated temple names and mixed site types make name-only matching unsafe.

Matching rules
Rule	Meaning
1	ONAB temple code exact match is canonical for Buddhist wat identity.
2	Thai name plus province plus district is a strong match.
3	Thai name plus coordinates within 250 meters is a strong geospatial match.
4	OSM, Wikidata, TAT, or Fine Arts records inside the same temple polygon are strong enrichment matches.
5	English name or romanization alone is weak because temple names repeat and transliterations vary.
6	Do not merge an active wat, abandoned wat, ancient ruin, shrine, and tourist attraction unless the source evidence agrees.

Static-policy boundary

Keep identity, stable history, route role, base-area relationship, and long-run etiquette notes in static pages.
Keep opening hours, ticket prices, ceremony access, restoration status, crowding, review counts, daily weather, and daily AQI live-only.
Treat review counts as crowd proxies, not as cultural-value truth.

Package links

Surat Thani temple research brief Temple research package Temple route matrix CSV Temple static-policy note Original temple package zip