One of the rooms is so big that it alone has 1000 pillars, all of which are fairly ornately carved, some incredibly so.
They charged per camera (which I actually prefer, because at least then you know that taking pictures is allowed!) so I only paid for the good camera, which means I have no iPhone pictures to load to the blog right away ...Or, at least be able to compose right away as I still haven't found wifi yet.
However! I took a couple pictures with my phone just now of the preview screen on my real camera, so here's an idea of what the temple is like:
Those towers are about 50m, 164ft tall and covered with statues all the way to the top, and all statues are painted with bright colors. Any one of them is pretty overwhelming to look at. I should point out that the towers actually serve as "gates" for the temple, and aren't temples themselves (this is something it took me a while to figure out).
So all of the space between these gates - actually called gopuras - is one, massive temple. The view of the temple in the above picture is actually pretty deceiving because of how enormous the gopuras are and that the main level is actually significantly lower than ground level, so the entire place inside has very high ceilings and seems much bigger than it appears.
Here is a (terrible, because of the quality) idea of what some of the inside looks like:
Those are people on the bottom there.
Location:Madurai India
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