Hangzhou/Ling Yin Temple

I stayed in Hangzhou basically right on Westlake which is a dynamic lake with lots of lotus flowers growing around it, scenic walkways, boat rides, etc. Very crowded during the day but super peaceful in the early morning hours. Here is a view of the lake, obviously a very overcast day but still...
I was sitting on one of the many bridges connecting different areas of the lake...
If you open this up and look a bit more you can literally see it raining. It was thankfully a light rain as we had lots more walking to do.
Here is the area called Ling Yin Temple. According to history this is a limestone mountain that came from India and is a holy mountain. There are hundreds of Buddha's carved into the limestone through the park...
In addition the actual temple is so large that it can't fit in any pictures. This is from one of the rooms that had 4 enormous guards like you see in this photo. Each were no less than 25' tall!

This shows just a bit of the temple. It was on multiple levels and probably comprised about 5 buildings of this size, each seemingly more amazing than the last...
This was the view from the top where you can see the roof of one of the temples...
All over we saw very interesting trees and their root growth. Sometimes growing in circles, sometimes seemingly growing out of rocks, etc...
This is in the city of Hangzhou we went to a restaurant in a very non tourist part of town. It had lots of the cool local attractions, good food, etc.