Throughout the day we saw a mix of red and grey-stoned temples with carvings, beautiful friezes, and the columns that held these mighty temples up. We also saw some intriguing stand-alone statues of Hanuman (the monkey god) and Ganesh (the elephant god).
The great thing about these temple ruins, is that almost everything is free to get in - so we can see so many different things without having to worry about the budget!!
The only thing we had to pay to get into was the Royal Temple and Elephant Stables. The Stables were pretty cool - a long building with separate chambers for the state elephants - unfortunately no elephants there anymore, but an amazing thing to see nonetheless.
After walking for hours in the heat, we decided to catch a cheap rickshaw back to the bazaar where we had a good Indian lunch - Adam had a thali, which is an all-you-can-eat meal of rice, roti, and several different favoured curries; Liv had a masala dosa, which is a savoury pancake with spiced potatoes inside with a couple of small bowls of curry as a dip.Back across the river we met up with Peter who had spent the day relaxing at the hotel, and so we promptly joined him and set about relaxing ourselves!!
The relaxing didn't last long as some of our new found friends reported a snake in her bathroom. The snake was happily eating a frog (one of the many thousands that control the paddie fields nearby), blissfully unaware of the stress it was causing. When its bucket-shield was moved, it raised and flared out his head and moved as a pace that had us running in the opposite direction. After consultation with the guy at the hotel he solemnly declared it was a cobra, and set about ending its fear inducing life. While this is pretty sad, we're in a populated area and none of us were keen to have a poisonous snake roaming the grounds.
Adlibing monkeys, elephants, and snakes.
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