Saturday and Sunday have officially been our days off, and although we visited a massive creative industries trade fair in the morning – we at least had a lay in (my first for days I think!). Then we headed for the Lama Temple (a Buddhist temple) after lunch at a beautiful vegetarian restaurant (remember chickens made of potato?). The temple was breathtaking, and hard for me to do it credit in words. It was the first day of the Tibetan lunar month and was heaving with worshippers and monks. There were endless halls of buddha in various forms and the final one housed a gold buddha 4 storeys high. I did take a sneaky photo, which I hope to post up here if Shawn can help me? The lasting impressions I have are of incense, fire, red gold and blue, monks robes, bells, birds and turps.
All that spiritual renewal was followed by a blissful couple of hours shopping for beads and knick-knacks down winding side streets, followed by caffiene in a very groovy coffeee shop called Waiting for Godot. Didn’t make it back to the hotel until 10:00 when we had a very late dinner. Have also mastered the metro very well now.
“waiting for godot” is an absurdest play by Samuel Beckett.
is that meant to mean something or just simply coincidence that it was also the cafe’s name?
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Hi Rachel – Good question, I should have asked! It was one of those multi-purpose places that had books, art, music, WiFi – and coffee! You know, the sort where you can sit all day and add to the comments written by customers on the wall. The sad thing is, I can’t pinpoint it on a street map so i’m not entirely sure where it is.