(Sometime over the weekend, my camera got a scratch in one of the interior lenses, so a small blurry spot started showing up in the center of all of my photos T_T)
In the second week, we traveled away from Kyoto to Nara and Koyasan. We spent day 8 & 9 (July 2nd and 3rd) at a youth hostel in Nara.
I'm convinced that there are more deer in Nara than people. The deer, for the most part, were adorable. We didn't see them stealing any lunches or flipping up any schoolgirl's skirts, though I've heard they do both.
The deer are very precious to Nara. So there are many signs warning people about them. Japanese signage is really funny!
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| Watch out! Deer notoriously beat up grandmas and small children. |
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| Deer |
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| Deer |
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| Deer |
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| Sexy deer baby buddha: the local buddha of Nara. |
Like the patron saints of cities in Catholicism, it seems that every town has their own special buddha or mascot, if not a buddha.
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| More signage |
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We also went to Todai-ji. The temple is very old and quite beautiful.
It's also the first time that I'd seen such open, manicured lawns in a
temple area in Japan.
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| Todai-ji |
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| Daibutsu: The great Buddha in the temple. |
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