Wolfgang's photos with the keyword: Phu Si Hill

One of the three staircases to the hilltop of Phu Si, this one seldom used by the tourists.

There are three stairways up to the hill top. The main way starts from the opposite of the National Museum and about 328 steps are to climb to the hill top.

View of Luang Prabang town to the south-east side.

Exploring the top of Phu Si, you will come across various other smaller temples and Buddhist shrines. This Buddha image seen in the small temple beside the stupa.

That Chomsi is the temple that sits atop the Phu Si and a magnificient view from up here. This delightful stupa was built in 1804 during the reign of King Anourouth. Wat That Chomsi has become a symbol of Luang Prabang's spiritual significance to Laos.

Down to the National Museum and the Mekong river behind.

Buddha was enlightened under the Bodhi Tree. He spent the next seven weeks here before heading off to Sarnath to begin his teaching. Now Buddhist pilgrims from many different countries visited the tree on the steps to the Phu Si hill top, to meditate and donate on a concrete embedment of the holy tree.

The Bodhi Tree, also known as Bo, was a large and very old Sacred Fig tree (Ficus religiosa) located in Bodh Gaya (about 100 km from Patna in the Indian state of Bihar), under which Siddhartha Gautama, the spiritual teacher and founder of Buddhism later known as Gautama Buddha, achieved enlightenment, or Bodhi. In religious iconography, the Bodhi tree is recognizable by its heart-shaped leaves, which are usually prominently displayed. It takes 100 to 3,000 years for a bodhi tree to fully grow. On the way to the hill top of Phu Si threr is placed a Bodhi Tree which the pilgrims and visitors of Phu Si respect the holy tree with donations.

This fine little temple is exquisitely situated, nestled amid dense foliage and overlooking the Xiang Thong Road.