The pagoda forest
After another exhausting walk, by now the heat was beginning to take its toll on everyone, we arrived at the pagoda forest.![](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IB7VyxCpfXE/XRyrlArfYDI/AAAAAAAALEg/77LE9oBe-Ps2whLdspfaMcgHUxk9FAgxQCK4BGAYYCw/s640/20190517_1516zz31.jpg)
No, it's not a forest with trees it's a collection of over 100 pagodas, each a tribute to a head monk at the temple and it goes back a long time. The tribute can have one, three, five, or the maximum seven layers the significance of which I don't remember.
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This is one of the more recently constructed pagodas
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From there we get a ride back on the back of a large electric wagon
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to the front entrance courtyard where drinks and ice creams can be bought, and a visit to the all-important happy place.
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Then it's back to the hotel.
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