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 surprises (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 –
The arrows intrigued me… I had to ask what the crest shaped arrow was for…. for shooting off the head of the enemy. That caught me by surprise.
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… I was afraid if I had taken out any balloons I’d get mobbed and never get out alive once my pockets were emptied of 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.
