Day 2 Continued Again

As we got down into the farming area along the river, we looked back and could just see Temple #10 (in the middle, just about the line of trees and to the right of the center telephone pole).

After passing through a wooded area on some low hills, the Henro Trail arrived at a house. Ian is standing behind a pile of ashes that were right in the middle of the trail. If we had arrived while the trash was burning we might not have been able to continue until the fire cooled down. The trail went around the side of the house (on Ian's right, your left) and continued along the side of the building. Once past the building, we came to the parking lot associated with the temple and then entered the grounds. The buildings were old looking and the temple did not look prosperous nor commercial like some of the others, Temple #7 in particular.


This was one of the side building that we passed as we walked up to the main building to do the usual ritual.


The main building is straight ahead and the side building in the previous picture can be just seen on the left.

After completing the chanting of the Heart Sutra, we walked about three more kilometers to the business hotel where we had made reservations for the next three nights. If we had been able to book accommodations, we would have been on our way to Temple #12 on day 3. However, we would have to wait until day 5 before climbing the mountain. After a lot of thought and discussion, we decided to use day 3 to visit Temples #17 to #12 in reverse order, then rest and do some shopping on day 4, before starting up the mountain early on day 5.