This is Charlotte.
Yesterday was awesome! We went to these awesome temples. They were huge. We were allowed to walk inside them and explore.
The temples were beautiful! The people who worked on them back then were very talented. The detail was amazing, the art was beautiful, everything was perfect.
Some of the temples that we went to were made of rocks. The places where they got the rocks for the temple were at least 30 km away. The people had to carry the rocks. I would never be able to do that.
The carvings on the rocks where so detailed. Later that day we visited a art school, where they told us that it took a week to make a small carving and a few months to make a big carving.
We went to one temple that had super steep steps and you could climb up them.
We met a tour guide at the top totally by coincidence and he told us a little story about the temple so now I’m going to tell you the same story he told me.
When they were making the temple the rocks came from 50km away. Back then they didn’t have the fancy machines and stuf so they had to get the rocks to the temple a different way. They got the rocks down the mountain into the river where they put them on a boat and sent them to the end of the river. At the end of the river there was an animal waiting, the animal was an elephant. From the end of the river to the temple the elephant carried the rocks and dropped them off at the temple and went back to the river to get more rocks.
The temple was never finished because it got struck by lightning and the people were too afraid to finish it. When you go up to the top of the mountain and you look up you can see where the lightning struck.
Fun facts
- The temple was never finished
- The temple is 50 m high
- on the entire temple there are 384 steps (MATH CHALLENG if there are 4 equal sides and 384 steps in total how many steps on each side this is for my grandpa… and anyone else who likes math)
- I climbed all the way to the top with Ruby and Drew
- The people put holes in the rocks so they could drag them
The temples where AWESOME and I will never go back but I will always remember them.
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Charlotte, thank you for all the information about temples. Even though you are not in school you are learning a lot!! Your story about what the temples look like, how they were built, how they got the rocks from so far away is great. Obviously the people who built them had many great ENGINEERS to figure all this out.
Now for the math challenge: (Grandpa loves math challenges, thanks for sending one). If there are 4 equal sides with steps on each side and 384 steps in total, then there are 384/4 = 96 steps on each side. BUT if the temple is really 50 m high then there would be about 2 steps per metre (each one would be about 50cm) and those are awfully big steps. You couldn’t climb them like you climb ordinary stairs which have about 5 steps per meter. Soooo I’m wondering if the number 384 you were told is for the layers of big stones I see in the picture where you are standing and not the stairs that lead to the doorway. The big rock with the holes you are pointing to looks about the right size, 50cm. Engineers like to get into the details!!
What’s more important is that you and your family are having such a good time and so many great experiences!!!
Love you lots. Keep learning things on your trip!
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Boy Charlotte you are lucky 🍀 to have a Grampa to help you with the math !! And aren’t we all so fortunate to share all of this with you ‼ is it hot there ?? Loving all the photos of you all ‼ can’t wait till the next adventure ❌⭕️❌⭕️ 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
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