This Afternoon

We did make it down the to Wu-Mart - it was more of grocery store - our big adventure it trying to cross the streets - the traffic is hectic and everyone honks at everyone else - then there are the many, many, many bikes - they just go where they want - whip around corners and fly down the road not obeying any traffic laws. You watch for the lights and the cars to stop then your almost wiped out by a bike - you can just sit and watch the traffic and be amazed that there are no accidents - somehow it seems to work here - jay-walking seems to be the norm as well - we decided to wait for the lights and go with the large groups crossing. We took in a local sight this afternoon. It's called the Lama Temple - it seemed to be a series of temples - the people buy large amounts of inscents, go to each temple and burn them and pray, then move onto the next one. This is the entrance gate:

Then there was this long walkway lined with trees - it must look beautiful when the leaves are on the trees - today was a nice spring weather day - we went out this afternoon and didn't need our jackets

The next few pictures are of the buildings - all the buildings seemed to be either a main temple or a smaller temple specific to a teaching, mathematics, medicine where the lama studied - they still had statues in the buildings for prayer and people were praying in all the buildings except a couple that were set up as museum exhibits.

We saw this little cupboard outside one of the temples - it actually says on it - Fire-fighting Equipment - it caught our eye because all that seemed to be in there were buckets and axes.