Lady Buddha
After lunch we got to visit the large lady Buddha that we had seen from a far playing in the waves of Da Nang. She’s 17 stories tall and holds a bottle of holy water that she sprinkles on the fishing vessels below.
The gardens and temples are beautiful and free to walk around. There are a large number of unfixed dogs wandering the grounds.
The bathrooms were interesting as there is a long narrow hallway of urinals that you could run into and pee in. Keenan and I had to go and he was very unsure of the urinal hallway. I convinced him to just take a toilet paperless stall with me. Note to self carry paper on you and hand sanitizer. They had a sink to wash in, but I still felt a need for sanitizer afterward.
Gorgeous grounds to walk. It was super hot so we grabbed some ice cream cones while admiring the wonderful statues and temples. You need to remove your shoes to go into the temples and no hats, umbrellas or raincoats. There is a list of rules. It’s important to be respectful.
I was actually picking up garbage around the grounds of Marble Mountains. I don’t know how the monks keep their cool with people leaving plastic cups at the feet of amazing marble sculptures. Eeeerrrr! I thought it would be nice to help clean it up a bit. Someone even left a water bottle and wrapper in the pass of this gorgeous cave we climbed through. I took them out with me instead of leaving them. Garbage is definitely an issue here. Even when surrounded by such beauty.
This is from http://ladybuddha.org/ about the statue: The statue leans on the mountain, facing the sea, the kind eyes looking down, a hand exorcizes while the other hand is holding a bottle of holy water like sprinkling the peace to the offshore fishermen. On the hat of Lady Buddhastatue, there is a Buddha statue 2m high. There are 17 floors in the statue lap, each floor has an altar with 21 Buddha statues which have different shapes, facial expression and posture.
The gardens and temples are beautiful and free to walk around. There are a large number of unfixed dogs wandering the grounds.
The bathrooms were interesting as there is a long narrow hallway of urinals that you could run into and pee in. Keenan and I had to go and he was very unsure of the urinal hallway. I convinced him to just take a toilet paperless stall with me. Note to self carry paper on you and hand sanitizer. They had a sink to wash in, but I still felt a need for sanitizer afterward.
Gorgeous grounds to walk. It was super hot so we grabbed some ice cream cones while admiring the wonderful statues and temples. You need to remove your shoes to go into the temples and no hats, umbrellas or raincoats. There is a list of rules. It’s important to be respectful.
I was actually picking up garbage around the grounds of Marble Mountains. I don’t know how the monks keep their cool with people leaving plastic cups at the feet of amazing marble sculptures. Eeeerrrr! I thought it would be nice to help clean it up a bit. Someone even left a water bottle and wrapper in the pass of this gorgeous cave we climbed through. I took them out with me instead of leaving them. Garbage is definitely an issue here. Even when surrounded by such beauty.
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