candikuning:::botanical gardens, floating temples-genuine & fakes, & giant corn cob

On our way down from the mountains we stopped in Candikuning, a small lake town with a huge botanical garden as its claim to fame.

inside of the botanical gardens

a view inside of the iris nursery

the statues in this hindu nation are quite different than those at home

me standing in the belly of a giant tree with more trunks than I have fingers

our lakeside bungalows on the hillmy favorite find yet::: a somewhat forgotten giant cob of corn
joe working hard on our sunrise canoe ride to a temple on the lake
the temple was very interesting though it apparently is not really floating...and the sun is across the lake....perhaps getting up at the buttcrack of dawn was not necessary

a more astounding and actually "floating" temple- Pura Tanah Lotthis interesting little island/hindu temple is the most photographed in Indonesia- very understandable...

other things to photograph at tanah lot if you are a chinese tourist...me--as a group of older aisan women asked to have their picture taken with white little me...very strange...