After breakfast we left Temple #7 and headed off toward Temple #8. This picture shows the main gate into the temple grounds. Notice on the left side of the gate there is a fenced in space that forms the upright for the left side. Inside this space, behind the fence, there is a man-like figure. Many temple gates, but not all, have these figures. They are statues of fierce warrior-kings, whose duty is to protect the temple from evil of all kinds.
I guess the fence is to keep out the evil people who would damage or steal the statue. The following picture shows the warrior-king in more detail.
Here we see the actual entrance into the temple grounds. Ian is the man in red. The posts on the left have the names of people who donated money to the temple engraved on them.
This is another shot of the students who interviewed us for their school project. We met them a number of times after this. The last time we saw them, a day later, they invited us to go with them for lunch but we did not have the time - we had to get to our accommodations for the night before they decided we were not coming and gave the space to someone else.
After breakfast we left Temple #7 and headed off toward Temple #8. This picture shows the main gate into the temple grounds. Notice on the left side of the gate there is a fenced in space that forms the upright for the left side. Inside this space, behind the fence, there is a man-like figure. Many temple gates, but not all, have these figures. They are statues of fierce warrior-kings, whose duty is to protect the temple from evil of all kinds.
I guess the fence is to keep out the evil people who would damage or steal the statue. The following picture shows the warrior-king in more detail.
Here we see the actual entrance into the temple grounds. Ian is the man in red. The posts on the left have the names of people who donated money to the temple engraved on them.
This is another shot of the students who interviewed us for their school project. We met them a number of times after this. The last time we saw them, a day later, they invited us to go with them for lunch but we did not have the time - we had to get to our accommodations for the night before they decided we were not coming and gave the space to someone else.
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