On the way back to Mysore from the elephants, we stopped at the “golden temple”. A ton of monks live and study here… like a college campus. The temples are out of proportion LARGE! In the main temple there were three enormous golden statues. Of course we needed to take off our shoes on the way in (I put our shoes in my backpack – if I misplace my shoes here, it’s tough to find size 13 in southern India).
When we exited the temple I took my shoes out and put them on. A monk with an angry expression came over and pointed at my shoes. I tried to say we were out of the temple so I put them on…. but I think the “rules were to put them on at the bottom of the steps… not at the top. He wasn’t happy with me and I decided making a balloon animal for him wouldn’t change his mind-set.
Another thing that really stayed with us was the image of the monks using cell phones and internet tablets.
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