A cock fighting arena located right next to….
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…. an elementary school……
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The entrance to an ancient (still used) temple at the bottom of a canyon. We bicycled to this place.
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The precarious stairway into the temple.
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The inside of the temple. Legend has it that a man carried each of these stones (no doubt weighing tons each) into place, so they made him a god.
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The undisturbed jungle…. becoming rarer every day.
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Every little village has at least 3 temples, one for each key Hindu god… how many depends on the village size, prosperity, and number of families.
Attention to detail, exquisite architecture, and flowers to soften hard things.
Complex irrigation systems, often doubling back on each other, carrying out centuries of water rights, distribution priorities, hierarchies, all gravity fed from the distant volcanoes, all maintained by unwritten tradition.
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Dotted throughout are thousands of little temples for offerings for fertility, good weather, good rice yields, everything needed for success to feed thousands of families. One temple for each plot, one for each family.
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