Lama temple - sunday

After church we went home to eat lunch in a restaurant near campus. The food was surprisingly good, not expensive and not cheap, but really good. We just ordered too much.. I think the baked/fried shrimp was the best food I've had here yet!

We had planned to go to the Lama Temple with 2 other girls, but lunch took a bit longer than expected and we ended up going without them. At the busstop a bunch of the swedes joined us. Line 62 has a stop directly beside the Lama temple, but we couldn't really see which one it was. Luckily the ticket lady in the bus understood what we asked of her, and let us know when it was our stop.

However, when we got there it turned out that the temple was closed! We didn't really think about the fact that for the chinese it's Spring Festival, which starts on New years eve, and last for about a week I think, thus a lot of shops/tourist places would be closed.

The entrance to the temple wasn't immediately obvious and we had to ask another european(he looked like one anyway) for directions. He was also the one to tell us it was closed, but he pointed out that the Confucian temple was nearby(across the street) and that it might be open.

Instead of just going back, we figured we might as well find out if it was open.