went Nara on e 2nd day of e trip..
to be frank, my memories of Nara has been largely reduced to have fun playing with e deers, ultra bright sun tt poses a problem for us when taking photos, visiting Todaji and spending quite a bomb on souvenirs and confectionery plus muscle ache throughout e day (all thanks to Himeiji Castle) =D nevetheless i will provide a not-too-skimpy description of e time spent in Nara..
e unique part of Nara is e mani deers you can expect to see, especially in e vicinity of Nara Park. why is tt so? nids some tracing back of history here. Legend has it that God Kasuga, who has been enshirned as a guardian of e Fujiwara family (the ruling family) came to Nara on e back of a white deer. Thereafter, e deers have been warmly protected as servants of e gods.
anyway e deers are rather smart, they will loiter or stay put at e area where there is sale of deer biscuit... when you go near them , they will appear very friendly but once they realise that you dun hav biscuit to feed them, some of e deers will start to ignore you and walk off.. very pragmatic man..
from Nara Park, we went to Kofuku-ji where the buildings were said to be a thousand yrs old..
Then on the way to Todaiji, we went to an earthquake centre where i experience "first hand" what happens when earthquake strikes.. one-of-a-kind experience, i can say. this also shows how much emphasis Japan puts in educating e public about this natural disaster.
In Todaiji, got a bit of a shock cos its quite crowded and its a weekday.. saw quite big grps of students there so tt explain e crowd.. i suppose they are on excursion trips ba.. but cant help comparing Hemeiji and Todaiji cos realli benefitted from fewer ppl when touring Hemeiji. Anyway Todaiji houses one of e world's largest wooden Buddha statue. the temple itself is not very big and i end up spending quite a fair bit of time shopping for souvenirs.. typical singaporean, no cure man.. =D
intend to go to another temple but its kinda far + by e time we reached there, it will be closing soon so decided to tour e nearby 春日大社.. somehow it gives me e feeling of singapore zoo, very green, very calming.. think its some cemetry but din see any tombs ard... hmm...
one day is too short a time to tour Nara, got some iternary on e various places to go from the earthquake centre but looks like i need to wait till next time liao..
went back to Osaka and try to do some shopping but similar to Kobe, most shops closes between 8.30 to 9pm... diao.. this makes me wonder wat does e Japanese do at night...
to be frank, my memories of Nara has been largely reduced to have fun playing with e deers, ultra bright sun tt poses a problem for us when taking photos, visiting Todaji and spending quite a bomb on souvenirs and confectionery plus muscle ache throughout e day (all thanks to Himeiji Castle) =D nevetheless i will provide a not-too-skimpy description of e time spent in Nara..
e unique part of Nara is e mani deers you can expect to see, especially in e vicinity of Nara Park. why is tt so? nids some tracing back of history here. Legend has it that God Kasuga, who has been enshirned as a guardian of e Fujiwara family (the ruling family) came to Nara on e back of a white deer. Thereafter, e deers have been warmly protected as servants of e gods.
anyway e deers are rather smart, they will loiter or stay put at e area where there is sale of deer biscuit... when you go near them , they will appear very friendly but once they realise that you dun hav biscuit to feed them, some of e deers will start to ignore you and walk off.. very pragmatic man..
from Nara Park, we went to Kofuku-ji where the buildings were said to be a thousand yrs old..
Then on the way to Todaiji, we went to an earthquake centre where i experience "first hand" what happens when earthquake strikes.. one-of-a-kind experience, i can say. this also shows how much emphasis Japan puts in educating e public about this natural disaster.
In Todaiji, got a bit of a shock cos its quite crowded and its a weekday.. saw quite big grps of students there so tt explain e crowd.. i suppose they are on excursion trips ba.. but cant help comparing Hemeiji and Todaiji cos realli benefitted from fewer ppl when touring Hemeiji. Anyway Todaiji houses one of e world's largest wooden Buddha statue. the temple itself is not very big and i end up spending quite a fair bit of time shopping for souvenirs.. typical singaporean, no cure man.. =D
intend to go to another temple but its kinda far + by e time we reached there, it will be closing soon so decided to tour e nearby 春日大社.. somehow it gives me e feeling of singapore zoo, very green, very calming.. think its some cemetry but din see any tombs ard... hmm...
one day is too short a time to tour Nara, got some iternary on e various places to go from the earthquake centre but looks like i need to wait till next time liao..
went back to Osaka and try to do some shopping but similar to Kobe, most shops closes between 8.30 to 9pm... diao.. this makes me wonder wat does e Japanese do at night...
