Bubeneshwar is famous for having a high concentration of temples. Hindu temples are really cool in that they have multiple parts: the tall part in back is the "god house" where the god of the temple resides, and the front room is for the audience who comes to pray. Some temples have three front rooms for more specific purposes, but that's the basic idea.
We started early every day to avoid the heat, and got there as the priest was setting up the altar. He stopped laying flowers out to bless us, and had us recite the main prayer of the temple after him in Hindi. That was a difficult task. It's hard to see in the photo, but the stone in the middle is actually made of two pieces (split down the middle). The stone represents the god, and the temple we were in at the time was built in honor of Shiva (the male god) and Pavarti (his wife), so the stone was split in two to show their unity. It was the only temple in BBS with a split stone.
The temples had lost of really cool carvings. This is a skeleton tantric goddess.
Clearly there were a lot of other carvings as well.
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