At a Temple: Birds, Cow, and a Strange Dog

We went on another temple trip today. At this one people often shave their heads to give their hair to the god. They also take showers in these little showers they have outside, in order to be clean before they go in I think. Most people shower with their clothes on, but not everyone. I actually took a picture of a group that seemed clothed while they were showering. It was a great picture I thought, until I noticed there was a naked boy in it, so I thought I probably shouldn’t include it in my blog. So I deleted it. Don’t you worry, I will always keep this blog with, at most, a PG rating :P

Near the temple, there were these beautiful little shaded off areas, look how pretty. People get married in these things apparently. 

 This is a picture of two trees grown together. They symbolize husband and wife, it is so sweet.

Here is a statue of someone you might recognize if you have ever seen A Little Princess (the newer version, not the Shirley Temple one)

Near the the beautiful little shaded off areas were a bunch of pigeons and a cow. I made friends with the cow, but we weren’t so close of friends when he started pooping and splattering it everywhere. 

At one point while I was at the temple it ended up that I had to be alone for a while. While I was standing there, a bunch of people started to notice me and were fascinated I guess. They all came up and shook my hand and wanted to take pictures with me. But they didn’t have cameras, so they wanted to use mine. So we had a whole photo shoot. You might notice I looked a little nervous in some of the pictures. Well I was. You would be too. Most of these people didn’t know English, except this one guy, who was giving me a little more attention than I was comfortable with. I might have been a little paranoid, though, being alone and everything. Needless to say, I was relieved when I could join my group again.

Here are the pigeons that were there. I looked them up in my bird book and I think they might be Rock Pigeons. Although they were a different color in the book, but I don't know... They didn't look remotely close to any of the other pictures. So I shall call them Rock Pigeons until I find out differently :)

There was this high-up decoration on the entrance to the temple and on it were perched lots of crows, but there were also a few parrots that I could barely see. I couldn’t get very good pictures because of how far up they were, but I did my best. My first sight of parrots, guys! It was cool.

After the visit to the temple, we went to a bunch of little shops for souvenirs. I didn’t find anything I wanted, but there was this really stray dog that was trying to scratch a hard-to-reach spot with his teeth, and he managed to twist himself in this really bizarre position. It was so weird, I just had to take a picture. He did it for like five minutes straight. I am sure he must have been cramping up after that. It is probably the weirdest thing I have ever seen a dog do.

The picture of him is sideways, so turn your head to get the full effect.