Climbing the mountain to the Buddhist temple

Part 4 of our March 2014 adoption trip, catch up post.  This is put together from emails and Facebook posts from that time.

We climbed waaaaay up the mountain (it was paved) to a Buddhist temple. Like it or not, this is part of the history of the land where some of my children were born, so we wanted to see it.  Isaac and I ended up staying out of the courtyard and temple because so many people were burning incense and it was really smoky. Yup, my kid - bothered greatly by smoke.

Mega smoky!  Incense sticks about two feet long could be purchased, and people were carrying a whole handful of them into the temple yard to give thanks to Buddha.

I didn't go into this area because of the smoke, but Ethan took a picture for me. The guide was trying to give us history on the area and said something about "guards who looked after Buddha." The big gold statue must be one of those guards.

 

We had REALLY used up all of our energy going round and round to get up to this place.  THEN we discovered there were carts, like open air buses, one could ride.  We got on, Ethan held the wheelchair off the back of the thing, and down we went.  I wish we had figured that out for the ride UP!