Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew, also known as the Temple of a Million Bottles, is a Buddhist temple in Khun Han district of Sisaket province, Thailand. The temple is made of over 1.5 million empty Heineken bottles and Chang beer bottles. Collection of the bottles began in 1984; it took two years to build the main temple. Thereafter, the monks continued to expand the site, and by 2009 some 20 buildings had been similarly constructed.
Wat Pa Maha Chedi Kaew in 2011
Detail of the bottles in a bottle wall.
A bottle wall is a wall made out of glass or plastic bottles and binding material.
A bottle wall of an Earthship bathroom
A colorful bottle wall
A ceramic tile cutter that has been used to cut bottles (seen on the ground behind the chair) to be taped together into a bottle wall
Two bottles cut and taped together, sitting in wet mortar