Rue Si Dat Ton or Contorted Hermit Mount is a health park near the South Vihara. Built during the reign of King Rama I, it wat the center of medical science and knowledge from the Ayudhya period, reflected by statues of hermits or Rue Si praticing physical exercises or in Thai called Rue Si Dat Ton. For Thais, a hermit is always treated as an important teacher. Informer times, the statues were made of clay; but King Rama III chand them to stone, and only 24 statues are left now from the total of 80. The contorted hermit was applied from Indian yogi. The artistic exercise postures are supposed to cure certain aliments of the person who practices it. The inscriptions of prosody framed on the cloisters columns are now kept in Sala Rai or Pavilions.
