Wat Khampramong, ThailandProject Date:
February 01. 2011 --> April 08. 2011 Wat (temple) Khampramong lies in the middle of the dry red soil in the province Pannanikom of Sakon Nakhon, in the north east of Thailand. The only thing that meets you when entering the temple compound is the dry hot land and silence. The only sound is of grasshoppers, until you get further inside and a chanting voice on the speakers fills the empty space.
Wat Khampramong is famous for its health unit Arokhayasarn for cancer patients. Here, patients come to stay during the final stages of their lives.The temple offers treatment with alternative medicines - which sometimes cures the patient, says abbot of the temple, Paponpat Jiradhammeo.
Heinz Kiso, a Swedish doctor of naturopathic medicine, visited the temple in February 2011 and stayed for one week offering his extensive knowledge in alternative healing.