On this short street you can find just about any animal in southern asia and a few not from here.Below are some pictures of the animals I saw today.
(Birds)
(Dogs)
(Turtles)
(Ducks)
(Rabbits)
Ooh, Some one call the Mark and Lisa Champion. They've been looking for a rabbit for there son Drew for some time now. Here they can get a baby rabbit for about 7 yuan or about $1.00 US dollar. However shipping it home would cost you about $300 US dollars. But look at it this way, you'll be the only people in Bartlett with a Chinese rabbit! (LOL)
(Gold Fish)
(Some Other Fish ????)
I have no clue what type of fish this is, but as I said you can find just about anything here.
This guy has a nice selection of fish. When they close up at night, he will put the fish back in the tanks inside the store. But today they get to enjoy the foot tubs and some Sun.
They sell all types of fish and plants. Any kind of animal you can think of was on the street today except for monkeys.
Kept on walking down the street and came to this really nice water garden area. There people were enjoying watching the turtles and frogs swim. Then I started smelling incents burning. After a few minutes of looking around, I realized that I had strolled into a Temple Area.
The next thing I see is these two guys guarding the door to a room of Buddha's.
Behind this door is the room of Buddha's. It felt a little strange and I wasn't sure I should go in, but I just had to see this for myself. So I entered the door.
There were buddha's to the left of me.
Buddha's to the right.
Here I am stuck in the middle with Buddha.
Don't know if I was supposed to be taking pictures, but I tried to be somewhat respectful. I turned off the flash on my camera. The room was filled with 100's of different buddha. I took several more pictures, but they would not fit on the blog. I will create a picture space and dump the pictures on the web so you can see more of the pictures.
After about 10 minutes in the room with buddha and the burning incents, I had to leave. Many people were walking around chanting to the different buddha's and I just couldn't stand it any more so I left the room.
There were more and more people showing up and I noticed they were going to another room around the cornor. Guess my curisoity got the best of me again and I followed. Some were going to the room of the dead. I did not take a picture out of respect. But it was several walls with pictures of dead people on it. The families would go in and light a incent and put it beside the dead person they were there to see. They also had many monks walking around and chanting in this room.
I continued around yet another cornor to find a massive temple. Look at the little dragon on the hand rail. The details in the carvings are extraordinary.
More incents burning. The pot is full of ashes from the incents that have been burnt. Notice the small kid he just put his incents into the pot before I shot this picture.
The columns of the larger buddha temple were carved dragons. Again look at the detail.
Here is a picture of the temple.
Of course I had to know what was inside. So YES again I adventured into the temple and looked at the buddha like statue.
After I finished looking around I left the area. No one said anything to me and I got no strange looks. I guess if someone walked into my church back in Bartlett and took some pictures of the church and maybe the preacher I wouldn't have much to say either. I guess my only hope would be they might stay to her the good word. But I can tell you Buddha said NOTHING!
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