I never really had a great desire to see the Sun Temple. An old girlfriend used to rave about it, but even so, I don't really like temples set behind fences crawling with tourists. I prefer living temples. But, it was nice. Really very impressive. It's enormous, and the carvings are quite nice.
Guardian lions mounting elephants: it's Orissa!
This temple is enormous.
Shot from a little garden area
Elephant carrying a demon
Very nice statues along the upper ridges of the temple
Birds
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We liked the headlessness
More goofy than scary
Really beautifully detailed
Lots of sex on this temple. 12th century Orissans knew how to live.
Tons of local tourists, saw maybe two other Westerners
The chariot wheels. Widely photographed.
They seemed especially fond of oral sex. But, who isn't?