Some crabs being sold in a market near the entrance to the Imperial Summer Villa. |
Fruit seller on the way to work. |
Buddha welcomes you to Puning temple! |
The main entrance, with sign celebrating the 250th anniversary of the temple. |
No Chinese monk would be caught without his cellphone! |
Obligatory burning-incense picture. |
Joyce and Aldri being goofy in front of one of the many buildings of the temple. |
Temple architecture. |
Yay for shadow pictures. |
Aldri spinning the lucky bell-type devices. |
Pigeons taking flight in the temple. |
Then they attacked me and I snapped a picture while covering my head out of fear of bombs. |
The main temple hall. |
Joyce quoting Shakespeare to Aldri above and me showing my disapproval. |
Architectural Intersection. |
Cool rock way off in the distance, it looked kind of like a turtle from one side, here it just looks weird. |
Temple roofs. |
The main temple hall. |
Bird flying into the sun. |
Absolutely HUGE statue of Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy, it's 22m tall, made of five different kinds of wood, and has 42 arms. |
A thousand little statues line the walls. |
Group shot. |
More main temple. |
Now at Putuozongcheng Temple, do not pull off! |
The Potala Palace minifacsimile. |
My polarizer was all over this task. |
When 10mm just isn't wide enough... this thing was huge, and it's a SMALL version of the real Potala in Lhasa... |
Prayer flag towers in front of the main palace, or Red Palace. |