Wat Umong, formally known as Wat Umong Suan Phutthatham, is a 700-year-old Buddhist temple located at the foot of Doi Suthep, just south of Chiang Mai University. It was founded during the reign of King Mangrai and was originally called Wat Welukadtharam, or the “Temple of the Eleven Bamboo Clumps,” a name that reflected its early setting in a bamboo forest.