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  • White Temple

    We did a day trip to the White Temple. It was not what we expected.

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    It was like a giant modern art piece that is still being constructed.

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    I don’t quite get all the meanings.

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    Struggle I guess.

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    It reminds me of scenes from anime.

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    And of course if there is an unreachable place with a container it will have coins tossed into it.

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    In pictures from further away it isn’t clear what gives highlights to the pieces. Up close you can see they have thousands of pieces of glass/mirrors.

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    Inside the temple photos are not allowed. The walls are painted with decorations including:

    • Batman
    • Neo from the Matrix
    • A minion
    • Superman
    • Spiderman
    • Hello Kitty
    • A Missile launcher
    • A Wristwatch
    • A 90s cell phone
    • A Volcano
    • Elvis
    • An angry bird
    • Kung Fu Panda
    • A space shuttle wrapped in Dragon tongue

    You think we are making this up, but we really aren’t that creative.

    At the front of the temple is a life sized very realistic and creepy wax sculpture of the Buddha mediating sitting under a gold meditating Buddha and a white Buddha.

    For $1 you could buy one of these little foil thingies and write your name on it with a sharpie.

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    The walkway roof was lined with these things tightly packed, and there were several trees like this.

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    But then you see stuff like this and are confused as to what is going on. I mean sure the predator is cool, but why is it here.

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    And faces of wolverine and maleficent hanging from a tree. 

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