Lots of Walking

We're a little behind on the blogging, but on Thursday we went to Wang Dai Sim (spelling??). We spent the day looking at more traditional chinese monuments. We first went to a temple that was right in the middle of the city. It looked sort of out of place. There were lots of people there burning insensce in memory of their ancestors. It was very pretty with the old temple and the waterfalls and streams flowing through.

Of course we ate delicious dimsum, and because the menu was only in chinese characters, Daniel had to guess on the ordering a little, and we ended up with some mystery dishes. One of the mystery dishes was curry squid. Dan and Kevin seemed to like it, but Tish and I decided to not partake of that mystery dish.

We then went to The Monistary of 10,000 Budhas, which could have been called the place with 10,000 steps because that's about how many we had to climb to get to the top. Between the 10,000 steps and the grueling heat and humidity, it was exhausting. Along the way the path was lined on both sides with these big budha statues, each one different. We even saw a monkey fairly close, but the only picture Dan managed to snap was from the back, and somehow only focused on an inappropriate body part of the monkey, so we will not be posting it.

Once you get to the top to the Monistary, there are more budhas. The monistary is big, and the walls are literally lined with tiny budhas. Probably 10,000 budhas lined the walls, and that is where they get the name. Rylee saw one budha riding on a blue dog, and thought it was cookie monster. She was excited until we made her get a picture by it, then it sort of freaked her out.