Quote Originally Posted by Thetyim View Post
When you visited the caves did you see the monkey that rings the bell ?

Originally you had to get the cave lights turned on by calling at the house (monastery?) just before the cave. The door bell was a hand bell. After a while a monkey was used to ring the bell whenever he saw someone coming up the lane and the lights got turned on for you.
Must have been monkeys day off TY or maybe he was on a bender the night before because we never saw him. But you are right about getting one of the nuns to turn the lights on.
I took some more pictures but set up the camera wrong so they didn't come out well, as you can see from the ones I salvaged.