Don't worry, there are still plenty of temples in Patan for me to talk at length about. This one, the Golden Temple, is probably the most famous, although it's not easy to find. On a typical street lined with crumbling brick houses, a small pathway through one of the houses leads to this courtyard, which is almost completely taken up by the temple. In addition to making the temple look like it's fighting for space, it also makes it hard to photograph. It's a Buddhist temple, with a convenient rope hanging from the top to allow the gods to slide down from heaven to answer prayers. It was built here in the twelfth century when the king had a dream that a famous Buddha image wanted to be housed in a place where mice chased cats. Lo and behold, the king saw a golden mouse chasing a cat here the next day, and the rest is history. So this temple is probably a direct result of the ganja pipes being prepared by the priests at the palace. To this day, mice and rats are allowed to roam freely at the temple. Apart from the rats, the other reason this is a big tourist attraction is the wealth of detail and fine artwork inside and outside the temple.