About a 20 minute drive outside of Loburi is a temple atop a mountain with ~3,700 stairs leading up to it. This day we climbed those stairs... and did so victoriously.
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| Herd of cows in the road as we headed to the temple entrance.... Thai cows are skinny. |
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| Looking fresh at the bottom of the stairs :P |
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| GIANT Buddha of Death Star proportions under construction! Wait til the Rebels hear about this! |
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| There are mini-temples, huts, and benches for rest stops on your pilgrimage up the stairs. Remember to ring the bell! |
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| The figure at the top of the stairs is a little Thai boy that led the way for us about the first 3rd of the trip. He would run ahead and then wait for us. We called him our Sherpa. |
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| Take 5 |
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| Greeted by a band of temple puppies! |
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| Huge millepede! Water bottle for size reference. |
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| Those pups followed us for a little bit. They had trouble getting up the stairs and it was really cute. |
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| At the top! |
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| Exploring the top, we find a helicopter landing pad and some MORE stairs! |
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| The stairs led to another temple, and passed a monk's house. |
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| You can see the Death Star Buddha we passed on the way up, and now it looks tiny! |
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| Gold painted rocks |
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| Looking pretty scruffy at the top |
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| The house of a monk that we met at the top. He gave us water and apples! |
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| Elizabeth starting the long descent |
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| Back at the bottom |
wonderful photos, fantastic view and of course we all are growing to love the commentaries of a budding international photo journalist (Lisa) who may have intentionally or unintentionally just penned the ultimate oxymoron
ReplyDelete"Death Star Buddha";
sounds more Hindu than Buddhist (i.e., Lord Shiva, the Destroyer)
If you end up going back, how about a puppy to millipede size reference picture?
ReplyDeleteAll looks amazing! Really enjoying living vicariously through you. Not sure I spelled that right.