By the time they finish it you will possibly be living somewhere else, so you might have to visit some friends or pop back in to get some shots of it when it is complete. This is probably a dumb question, but are the jewels in the statues real or fake? I would guess fake because of theft reasons, but then again, they might assume no one would be a big enough dick to steal from a temple... These are some great shots and I agree, that scaffolding looks pretty dodgy.
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in the more famous temples there are precious metals and even statues that are made of solid gold and adorned with precious stones. In the smaller temples they tend to be fake and I would imagine the things that re kept outdoors are always fake. It seems inconceivable that someone would steal from a temple but it would happen if something that valuable was just kept out in the open.
That makes sense. Thanks for the explanation!
there is the story of this one statue that was hundreds of years ago covered in ceramic in order to prevent the Burmese from stealing it, many years later it was discovered (and i don't know if this was because of scientific methods or if someone just dropped it) that the interior was a rather gigantic solid gold Buddha. Hiding in plain sight!