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Japan Day 10

Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel

Today, we hit 3 tem­ples over in the Kamakura region. And since I’m feel­ing lazy, I’m just going to post some bul­let points about them for now:

Hasud­era: MASSIVE Buddha
• Great pic­tures thanks to coop­er­a­tive sky
• HOT, HOT walk to Buddha

Tem­ple 2: Japan­ese shrine (maybe Tsu­ru­gaoka Hachi­man Shrine?)
• BLOODY MISERABLE HEAT and stairs on walk up to temple
• Gor­geous scenary
• Rest area near top with excel­lent apple juice
• Rest area over­looks the city area and the ocean
• saw some hawks/falcons/eagles fly­ing from rest area, very cool
• Got a pic­ture of a cou­ple of ladies wear­ing kimonos out­side tem­ple, really like the design of the white one with blue flowers

Tem­ple 3: Japan­ese shrine 2 (maybe Hasedera?)
• Mas­sive and beautiful
• heat started to go down a bit
• saw shrine maid­ens wear­ing tra­di­tional grab, but didn’t get a chance to ask them for a picture
• had a small museum area with var­i­ous things of inter­est: sword, arrows, bows, scrolls, vases, kimonos

Shop­ping on way back to hotel
• bought small some­thing for Mom, K and Grandma D.
• helped pick out omiyage for K-san.
• ate din­ner with AWelkin and Bryon again, this time also with Y, an old friend of AWelkin’s
• nice itlian place, had salomn cream penne, very nice
• got back to hotel late, tried call­ing Ariesna but got no answer

UPDATE
• This morn­ing had e-mail from Ariesna that she’s been hav­ing a rough time (smashed her hand) but other than that she’s ok.
• Also, I had some bizarre dream last night. Don’t remem­ber much, but it seemed like I’d had it before and it seems there was some odd ball drug use going on in the dream. As I said, it was bizarre.

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