Mountain climbing part 2

We make it to the top!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yeah!!! Our legs were all like jelly but we made it. I have to tell you that this was the steepest mountain I have ever climbed up. Here is the buddha at the top.











These are boxes filled with candles. You go up to it and bow then you light a candle, set it in the box and say a prayer. Kareem wouldn't let me go to near with the camera. We didn't want to cause an incident. :)










This is a giant bell. The brown thing in the bottom left is the "hitter". Don't you just love trying to explain stuff when you don't know the words!! Anyway, you pull that big brown thingie back, let it go and it hits the bell. We found this after another! short climb up a hill.









Here is another statue. There was water coming out of a spout. That's what the lady and man were doing, getting a cup and having a drink. Kareem didn't let me try this either! He has no sense of adventure!! heehee













This was the top to the bell. I thought it was really pretty.









Here is a temple we found...yes..after another! mini climb on yet another mini hill! These were prayers put in a temple. It was really neat. There were benches all around and it was very peaceful.














Here is a close up of the buddha.









Here is the large temple we found at the top.
















This was a large stone turtle carved in the side of a bunch of boulders. It had water coming out that you could drink. Nope...the Capt put the kybosh on letting me try this as well. He is just a little protective. :)








We see some people in the woods up above us and Kareem decides we need to join them. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! More climbing???????????? Who made him large and in charge????????????? No one would revolt with me so we climbed up a very steep hill in the woods. On the way back down a lady felt sorry for me and stopped me. She had a plastic bag full of this stuff and told me to eat it. I of course looked around to see if the hubby was going to stop me...nope he was farther down so of course I helped myself! heehee We bonded over a piece of this and she gave me the whole bag!!!!!!!!!!!! It was a nugget like candy. We all tried some. I love it here!!!!!!


Happy faces cause we are going down!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And yes that is Mr. Mac Daddy and his "voman" at the top holding hands.














This was at the bottom...mecca!!!!! We got the kiddos an ice cream and I got some water. Then we sat for a couple of minutes before getting in the car.










Here we are on the way home in the car.
There is a thing here with putting art above tunnels. These are animals frolicking on the hill. It's pretty neat and I never get tired of looking at them.











Here is Our Sonja...total exhaustion. :)














So endeth the grand Buddha adventure. Next up.........eating octopus! heehee so not!