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Wat Dongpalan
Thanon Dongpalan, Just beyond the Evening Market, Vientiane, LaosSculpture and decoration around this neighborhood temple lift spirits with their exuberance. Elaborately crowned moon faces top outside walls, which are brightly painted and decorated with kinnarys (angels), elephants and hunters. Several times a year, when special offerings are made at temples, sticky rice is placed in the mouth of each moon. Massive Buddhas and giant figures stand in the courtyard. The naga dragons at the spout of the hanglin, the carrier for scented water, are chased by crocodiles. In contrast the sim (temple hall) and monks' quarters are simple buildings.
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