May 19, 2009

Day 3 - going on





This is another view of the main hall at Temple #14. You can see the interesting structure of the bedrock.
This is the place to wash your hands before going into the main areas of the temple. You can see the bronze dragon in the middle, just behind the row of long handled scoops. Off in the distance, past the stone fence, there was a beautiful pond at the bottom of a cliff. The pond was surrounded by cherry trees, just coming into bloom, and was a playground for a flock of ducks.
This is the area just inside the gate. You can see the main hall in the background on the left and in front of it a little portion of the rock formation. The tree is probably a plum tree and would have been in full bloom a few days after we left.
This is Ian coming down the stairs as we left the temple grounds. The stairs are cut into the living rock and were actually quite difficult to walk on, slippery because of the rain and irregular.

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