Temple time...

Today was temple day.  There are roughly 22 billion temples in Sri Lanka...today we saw most of them.  They aren't the kind of temples you see everyday, unless you're here...which we are.  You don't go in, you go around...

...I went around this one twice, looking for the entrance...nope, you just go around.  This monk couldn't even find his way in...

I don't know what the hell these things are all about because all the directions are in a foreign language.  Anyway, we started off really early in this tuktuk, driven by a guy that could talk faster than the speed of sound...

 ...and we went to the temple you saw above, and there was this nice old lady...

...she told me that she was praying she'd find the door to get in, like everyone else.  So we went to another temple...

...not as many people looking for the door here.  I think at one time these were like domes for sports...and this is one of the cups they played for...

Sometimes, they have little side temples...like this...

...and sometimes they had these fatguy statues around...

...look at the earlobs on that guy!  So people hang out and look for an entrance...sometimes they set smelly stuff on fire...

...and sometimes there are old wrecked buildings lying around next to the big temples without doors...

 ...and another one of the fatguy statues...

 ...cows are the lawnmowers...

...and one of the German tourists told me this is where they invented pole dancing...cool!

Kinda makes sense with all those pole things, and the welcome statues...no fatguy statues here!  There are also monkeys everywhere...

...and you can see that first big white temple from almost everywhere...

I didn't know the Nazis invaded Sri Lanka and built libraries for Asians...did they really do that?

Maybe that's where the "no doors" tradition started.  There was a cool reflecting pool in the middle of someplace...

...and at the far end were the Gastonguay-Beaudry's replacement spies...remember yesterday on the train...nice young couple, perfect disguise...

You can't slip anything past TLD!!!  Anyway, this guy was at a karaoke bar last night...had a few too many...HEY...IT HAPPENS...anyway, his buddies tied him to this post, and left him outside one of the temples with the lyrics for "I left my heart in San Francisco" next to him.  Joke's on him!

Then I found this little vixen prancing among the ruins...

...aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, what a day...time for a cold one!