Been wanting to go for many years.
Got up and out 0500 for the requisite sunrise picture.
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You might think that buy getting there that early you'd beat the crowds, right! No way, Jose. The hoards were there early, Koreans, Chinese and Japanese by the hundreds maybe thousands!
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There were moments were I was in danger of being trampled...
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Thankfully they are like cattle and stay in their herds and clustered mainly around the lotus pond in front of the big temple, leaving most of the site relatively unmolested.
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The limestone is deteriorating pretty badly.
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more to come, I went wild taking pictures!