Kyoto, Japan Day 5

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December 28th 2011

Published: December 28th 2011

Today we had breakfast in our room, it's part of the deal here so we ordered Japanese style breakfast which was cold salmon and rice and a very small egg puff of some kind, a little kimchi and some other unrecognizable tofu kind of things. It was enough to get us going along with tea we made in the room. We set off on foot to Nijo Castle and Imperial Palace. Unfortunately, both are closed for... Read Full Entry

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3rd January 2012

Deb G
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Kyoto - Ga atta ni okonawa
:) Have Beth translate. Sounds like an amazing trip, guys! I'm reliving our trip as I read about your adventures. We have about a 6 hour videotape of our trip, but a blog would have been much easier! Glad you enjoyed some good yakitori, sans chicken fat. Enjoy the rest of your trip - Tanoshī o motte iru!

6th January 2012

deb b
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Beautiful pics you guys! Really enjoying your blog. Is picture #13 a grave yard?

8th January 2012

skibum
Kristy Chavez

graveyard
Yep, sure is. There were lots of really cool graveyards. On the new year the families come out a lot to visit the graves and to clean them so we saw a lot of that. The crows hang out in the graveyards so they were pretty creepy but cool, mostly in very beautiful temples. I'm sure the graves were those of very prominant people because most everyone is cremated due to a lack of space.

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