Wat Chedi (Ai Khai)

Wat Chedi, widely known as Wat Chedi (Ai Khai), is a major devotional destination in Sichon district, Nakhon Si Thammarat. Tourism Authority of Thailand material highlights a statue representing Ai Khai, a boy spirit who occupies a central place in southern Thai popular devotion at the temple. The official tourism account presents a tradition that Ai Khai was connected with an old temple and is associated in popular belief with Luang Pu Thuat.

Devotees commonly pray about business, work, protection or good fortune and may return with votive offerings if they believe a request has been fulfilled. These practices are documented as living religious and folk belief; the record does not treat them as proof that the spirit causes financial success or other supernatural outcomes.

The site is still a Buddhist temple, so the Ai Khai tradition exists within a broader environment of Buddhist worship rather than as an independent commercial “luck” attraction. Visitors should be sensitive to people engaged in vows and offerings, follow rules governing incense or votive objects and avoid sensationalizing the child-spirit tradition.

Tourism Authority of Thailand lists the temple in Tambon Chalong, Sichon, and provides current visitor information that should be checked before travel.