I figure we can either research each location and then see what we’ve read about or just be surprised day after day…. I like surprised (i.e…. I’m getting lazy).
This morning we started early with a walk to the local temple… passing small shops and street folk –
The carvings on the walls of this temple went on forever with so many images… row after row…
Then we were off to the Palace –
One king realized his enemies were afraid of elephants, so he dressed his horse as an elephant as he rode into battle:
We stopped at more shopping places….
and then a beautiful garden:
We stopped at the ruins of another temple and I made some balloon offerings:
During the final drive traffic presented us with another type of vehicle… he splashed water all over our windshield –
Then we ended at the final temple of the day…. the largest, nicest one that dwarfed everything else.
When we entered the temple, we bought some flowers as an offering… I smelled the flowers… very fragrant! Only to find out offering pre-smelled flowers is an insult, so I put the flowers inside my hat and kept them.
There was a downside here – we couldn’t take photos…. the upside was that a street fair celebration was going on outside so our cameras has a field day:
(note – these were not my balloons)
At then end of the festivities folks packed up their sales items and left. Many of these families walked to the festival – possibly a 3-hr walk each way and many of them without any footwear.
