Wat Lai Hin is not to be confused with a similarly named modern monastery just a few kilometers to the southwest. The Wat Lai Hin shown here is known as the "Monastery of the Standing Elephant with the Stone Shoulder". This fairly small wat contains several architectural gems--a traditional Lanna-style viharn and an old ubosot contained within a square enclosure fronted on the east side by a fabulously decorated stucco archway. The archway and the buildings within were constructed in 1683 by a prince and his followers hailing from Keng Tung, now in Burma. Like numerous other Lanna monasteries, such as nearby Wat Pong Yang Khok, the site of the wat was selected by an elephant when it stopped here en route from India with a Buddhist relic--or so goes the legend.