Day 14 Phuket Part 3 Look up in the sky! Its a Banana .... it's a Pineapple..... No it's The Big Buddha!!

After getting our Cashew fix chai took us up a windy road that weaved its way up to the Big Buddha.... Up there it sits... big and beautiful, over looking Phuket.  There is no fee to enter just a box where you can donate to help build and maintain this complex...  As you walk in you enter  a temple where you will find Monks in prayer , goods to buy and look another contribution box.. a few more steps and look another..... you pass through the temple and  wind your way up the path. There are  shrines were you can stop and pray and of course donate into yet another contribution box.  Once you are at the top you are faced with this huge Buddha.... Around its base you will find the most amazing assortment of gold buddhas and gods, each one with its own little box...  At the back of the Buddha there are 2 huge statues that seem to be protecting an entrance... a kind of reminder of what we will be missing Safaga.  Here there were a couple of gentlemen carefully carving what look like wooden doors.... hmmm any money left..... you can donate here too.....  Garry took so much footage that I could not leave without throwing in a few coins. When all the building is done and the scaffolding gone this will be an amazing attraction.