Six Banyan Tree Temple

Like all other 14 month old's Charlotte loves to explore and dig through things. She has had lots of fun with the suitcase.

This pagoda was at the Six Banyan Tree Temple.

You could throw money into this big pot for good luck.

People burn a lot of incense at the temples we have visited so far. The air is thick with smoke.

This temple has three huge Buddhas that are gold with priests serving in front of them and people bowing down. It was a good reminder to us that there are still million of people who serve gods made out of stone and wood and metal. It is easy for us to forget this and drives home the second commandment of the One True Living God.

In this photo you can see the sky had just begun getting dark. It felt like night in the middle of the day.

This man made beautiful paintings using only his hands as tools. We bought four paintings that represent the four seasons, so we've found our souvenir to bring home.

This is actual a silk embroidery but it looks like and oil painting. There was a room full of such masterpieces.

We went to a noodle house for lunch. In this picture you can see the man pulling one continuous long noodle as he throws it into the pot of hot water to cook.

This man was cutting noodles off of a big lump of dough and it would go flying and land in the pot of hot water to cook. Very cool to watch and very tasty too! :-)

We have lots of free time as we wait for our paperwork to get processed. We will be doing sightseeing and shopping trips with our guides. On Wednesday we went to the passport office to order Charlotte's Chinese passport that we'll use to go home. Today we visited the Six Banyan Temple and the Chan Family Temple/Museum. The Chan family were wealthy rulers in this area and they established their own complex to train their boys for official office. It was turned into an arts and crafts museum during the cultural revolution. While we were at this museum the sky got incredibly dark. It was the middle of the day but it looked like the night. A few people in our group said that it looked like tornado weather. Then it started to rain and, boy, did it pour!