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Temple Street Night Market

The Temple Street Night Market was a real treat. It was also a necessary treat. I got there at dusk. I had to buy another daypack as the one I bought at Wal-Mart for $10 gave up the ghost on me and started coming apart. I got a nice new spiffy one for $20, not the best price in the world. I should have bought the pack back in Siem Reap, Cambodia where they had more really good looking packs than I could shake a stick at and prices that would make a banker slobber. Unfortunately, my daypack decided to start coming apart in Hong Kong.

Melaka Temple

This is the inside of the Chinese temple in Melaka.

Chinese Temple – Melaka

It’s a Chinese temple. It’s in Melaka. There are may of them. This one is representative.

Emerald Buddha

It’s the Temple of the Emerald Buddha. I don’t think the Buddha is really made of emerald. But, it is a really nice piece of art. It’s also somewhat priceless and in possession of the King of Thailand.

Getting Templed Out

It happens to us all. We go to temples and go to temples and go to temples and go to temples and… Pretty soon, we’re all templed out. It’s sad, but it happens. If you’re normal, anyway.

Temple Sunset

There’s a place where the tourists go at sunset to see the sun go down over Cambodia. Several people had some great shots of the sunset they showed me at the hostel. This was about the best shot I got. At least it was the one I liked the best. The place where we watched the sun set was a temple on a very high hill. I had to walk up and it took a while. It was a pretty neat place and I think, given the right conditions, a person could get some really good shots from up there.

Ngoc Son Temple

There are lots of temples in Hanoi. This one was on Hoan Kiem Lake and require me to pay a little money to see it. I would like to say that this is a Buddhist Temple, but my knowledge of Vietnamese religious life is more than a little lacking, I keep hearing the term "animism" used.

Hong Kong Map

So what’s the point of the above map? Well, today is the first day that I have ever made one of my own maps on Google. I did it to try and get some orientation of the city of Hong Kong. I placed markers on the map for the following tourist attractions: Chi Lin Nunnery, Hong Kong Disneyland, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Lan Kwai Fong, Ocean Park, Star Ferry, Ten Thousand Buddha Monestarty, Tian Tan Buddha, Victoria peak, Stanley Market Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Wong Tai Sin, Hong Kong Museum of History, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong Science Museum, Temple Street Night Market, Chungking Mansion and the Clock Tower. What I will now do is find a good place to stay near the center of the attractions and plot my entries and exists on the subway system so that I won’t spend all day trying to figure out what I’m doing when I actually get to the city. Plus, with a map, I can group attractions as well as have a better orientation for the city. I’ve started making maps of several cities. This one is of Hong Kong.

More Temples 4 – Tikal

I liked Tikal. It was supposed to be one of the larger Mayan cities that have been found so far. I’ve heard there is one that’s really huge near the Mexican border that requires a 5 day mule trip in just to get to it. If you’ve never been to a Mayan ruin, you have nifty experience awaiting you.

The Group Upon Temple IV – Tikal

Temple IV is the big one in Tikal. It’s the one in the classic picture of a Mayan temple rising out of the jungle. The top of Temple IV is pretty easy to get to. Just climb a few thousand stairs and you’re there…

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