"They're after your crackers 'deer'"!!

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Nara was an easy day trip on the shinkansen from Kyoto. Most of the important sights are in an area called Nara-koen, which is home to hundreds of supposedly wild Deer. Deer are considered sacred, and are believed to be messengers from the gods and so are treated with up-most respect. You can even buy crackers to feed to them, which Dan thought was a brilliant idea....until he was surrounded by the hungry beasts and promptly chased down the road for his crackers!

We spent the day walking around this nice area, taking in the temples and shrines (can you see there's a temple theme developing here??!!!) and then returned to our hostel in Kyoto, where we'd found a nice cheap place for more Sushi...Dan's getting quite brave these days!!!

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Photos

Biggest wooden building...
...in the world!

Water station...
...To purify yourself before entering temple.

Comments

[scotty]

crackers and deer
yeah loving them big wooden buildings i gotta get out there ! you guys are the world gurrus!!!