Hiroshima & Miyajima - Food, Flowers and a Funky Monkey

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May 17th 2007

Published: August 6th 2007

Always a festival on in Japan! During Golden Week (basically lots of public holidays in a row) in Japan, Rebekah, Cate and I went on a short holiday to Hiroshima. After 4 hours sitting on the floor of the Shinkansen bullet train, as we left it too late to buy reserved seat tickets, we arrived at Hiroshima Station. We finally found our accommodation, Ryokan Sansui, and then were taken for a shor... Read Full Entry

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Marissa Nakos

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Read about my travels around the world. After completing my Early Childhood Education degree in Adelaide, Australia, my love of travelling and setting foot into the unknown took me to Japan. I taught at an English Kindergarten for two amazing years while admiring the glorious Mt Fuji and exploring Japan from Hokkaido to Okinawa and everywhere in between. I was lucky to meet Mario in Japan and now we are engaged and living in Spain. We have no idea what the future holds, but we’re sure it will be adventurous! ... full info

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Looking through the memorial to the eternal flame and A-Bomb dome

Peace park at night

Candles everywhere, it was so beautiful!

Me!

Candles in the Peace Park

Cate pounding the mochi (rice cake)

Then Cate and I eating it!

Mochi is like a sticky, sweetish rice cake. Ours were dusted in a cinnamon type of sweet powder.

View from the ferry coming into Miyajima island

There were deer everywhere!!!

Just taking his cats for a walk??!!

World's largest rice paddle - one of Miyajima's craft specialties

One of Miyajima's craft specialties as it originated here

Cute laneway in Miyajima filled with shops and restaurants

Miyajima's famous floating torii gate

Lucky when we took these photos the tide was still in

Cate, Rebekah and me

Trying to be artistic

The shrine maze

Itsukushima Shrine and Pagoda in the background

Funky monkey on stiltz!!!

It was so funny!!! But cruel too

A funny warning before we took the ropeway to the top of the mountain

Ropeway

17th May 2007

Mum
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Let me be the first
to compliment your lovely photos - obviously you have got your new camera all worked out!

17th May 2007

mario
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let me be the second, haha
such a very nice trip, i would love go there with you but... buuu ! kisses

17th May 2007

Pinkdaisy
Rebekah Fahey

A great escape!!
From one blogger to another, fab job.....photos are amazing, I love that camara.

20th May 2007

christine
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nice :)
very very nice cuz :) miss u xxxxxx luv christine

21st May 2007

BlackManx
Amy Hall

Alright Im Last!!!
But your pics are great!! And looks like youve been shopping, no surprises there- you look fabulous! Loads of love xx

14th June 2007

Liz Hall
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Did you cry too!!
How lucky was that to find a festival!! Love your photo of Abomb domb at night - even more stark and beautiful than in daylight Thanks for the post card and love the new house - wasnt thayt lucky the way it turned out - worth being homeless for a little while. Hope everything continues to go well- cant believe its nearly a year since we were there Love Liz

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