Once we reached the TOP of the hill, the view it offered was fantastic. And when we entered the temple, this 60 feet statue stands in the middle of the temple is a view that I would not want to miss.
All right, it is another challenge to walk down the 614 steps given that their consistency is not all that even. Oh well, I made it to the bottom of the hill and got mob by several vendors again. (Pretty much every tourist site we visited, there will always be some beggars tried to ask for money and some of them were very annoying.)Our next stop for the day is the Belur temple. We got a tour guide waiting for us at the temple and before we entered, AR told us that we should pay great attention listening to the tour guide. The tour guide went through series of different goddesses’ positions, instruments they were holding in their hands, and the symmetrical significance of their poses. Supposedly, they were all significant to the culture, but I was thinking to myself, if there are 10 billion gods and/or goddesses in Indian culture, how many could people remember who’s from whom? With that we ended our second temple visit of the day.
Surprise, surprise! Our final stop of the day is yet another temple. And of course, for every temple we been to we had to take our shoes off. I did not go into this one. My interest for the temples kept going downhill that I could not push myself into this temple. The greatest similarity between the temples we visited during the day were they are all stone carved and no colors to them at all. (This is really different from what I expect a temple to be.) And the greatest difference between them is that they have no differences because I could not tell one temple from another.
With that I ended my journey of the day, feel exhausted, we rode the bus back to Mysore in about 2 hours.
With that I ended my journey of the day, feel exhausted, we rode the bus back to Mysore in about 2 hours. 
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