Japan Trip 2 day 14

[rachel_riecheru]

Had a slow day today which was nice. Had a late breaky and then an early lunch. Wondered around osaka station for a bit before my tour.



Mixed Fruit Juice


Sandwiches (chicken, tomato, lettice and bazil pesto)


Strawberry Shortcake




I was the only from my tour coming from Osaka so I had a private tour guide to take me to Kyoto (not that I needed one lolz) but she was really nice and we talked a lot and she will meet me back at Nara station to take me back to Osaka which will be good lol. Look at what she showed me, some Artwork of all Osakas Sister citys, and Camberra from Australia is one of them!





It's a one hour drive to Nara from Kyoto. Which is kinda weird since it's closer to Osaka (Nara) lol.

So now I'm on the bus and listening to the tour guide in one ear bang on about alcohol and have my music in the other year lol. There will be lots of photos today. Our first stop is Nara deer park!

Oh deer, (pardon the pun!) when I heard about deer park I expected a couple of deers. They're fucking everywhere man XD!!

I tried to feed them and instead they feed of my fucking skirt XD oh deer!!!! Ah well a bit of soap and water at the bathroom later. I did buy deer biscuits for them but when I tried to feed them they all came at me at once so I freaked out and threw the biccies at them and just feed one separately lol.

I am enjoying dango mmmm dango and yummy melon slurpie <3 yummy! I'd never had dango before but it's very very nice :) so that will keep me going before dinner.

The temple was amazing a giant bronze budha statue the largest on the whole world in the largest wooden building in the whole world! There was lots of other budhas with the main one maybe one of them was the goddess of mercy maybe.



Deers


This is SO LOL


Moar Deers


The outter entrance


The welcoming statues




Another entrance gate


The worlds biggest wooden structure


Giant Statue Budha Statue made of bronze


Giant Statue of Kokūzō Bosatsu




At the next place we went to a shito shrine with 3000 lanterns. It's was alright not as special as the last two places but OMG OMG OMG OMG SNAKE!!!!!



Shrine gate


Sake bottles


Snake


Snake <3


Shrine building


Lanterns


Me infront of deer fountain




I looove snakes and was born in the year of the snake so feel especially close to them hehehe this one was sooo cute! So unpoisoness too!! Which made a huge difference <3 I wanted to pick it up but the tour guide was freaked as she was lol. I hope seeing a snake there will be a good sign for me!

After that we went to a souvenir shop and I picked up some incense :)



They then dropped me at Nara station where my guide was waiting for me :) on the way back to namba station we talked and I showed her the photos of my trip so far she really enjoyed it :) after we got to namba we spilt up but she brought me this lovely usagi postcard set >_< cause I said I liked rabbits how nice is thaaat!!



I then ate my dinner which was amazing the tuna melted in my mouth (this is what tuna sashi should do just melt, if it isn't melting it's either not good quality or they cut it wrong!)



Sashimi, Tempura and Noodles


Prawn and Cucumber Sushi




Time to post this and then head for the shower! Wanna wash off all the deer germs.

Comments

[randomdiversion.livejournal.com]

OOOOooooh! Look at the cute little snakey!!!! :LOVE:

Here's a short web reference on them:

http://homepage3.nifty.com/japrep/snake/ejaphebi.htm

Iwasaki's slug snake, maybe?

If by some long boat ride I ever go to Nara I'm definitely going to have to see the Daibutsu!

That rafters on that gate seem like they ought to be perched with (beneficial) youkai like pigeons on a telephone wire.

[rachel-reicheru.livejournal.com]

Yay a fellow snake fan (dont come to australia none of the snakes are cute only deadly)

[randomdiversion.livejournal.com]

So I've heard.

Here in the US we have only 2 categories of poisonous snake--pit vipers and coral snakes.

The former have many varieties, all of which have very similar head-shapes, keeled scales (unlike almost all our harmless snakes except hog-nosed), IR pits on their faces between their eyes and noses, and most of which have rattles on their tails. They have cytotoxic venom delivered from hollow fangs near the front of the mouth that tends to be locally destructive to tissue and thus results in crippling injury, but rarely kills people. In addition, most bites are dry, so on a yearly basis few people die.

The latter are brightly-colored relatives of the cobra and have two species with very limited ranges, along the Arizona/California border, and in Florida. They are small snakes topping out at about 2 feet long, with grooved posterior fangs and neuro-toxic venom that causes less local tissue damage than the pit-vipers, but is more likely to kill you if you are dosed with it. However the small size of the snake and posterior fangs mean most of these bites also fail to inject venom.

If you know this much, you can easily avoid the dangerously poisonous native snakes in the US (there are a couple with venom about as dangerous as a honeybee sting). If its not one of these few toxic snakes, then it's non-toxic. But it could still be a nasty, bacteria-mouthed biter, so best to admire without touching.

[rachel-reicheru.livejournal.com]

fair enough. sounds deadly.

[randomdiversion.livejournal.com]

I have a perverse desire to come up with a bunch of stuffed-animal youkai and a reaaaallly-long one of those poles with grippy things on the end, and perch a bunch of appropriate protective stuffed 'youkai' on that gate some night.

But I don't think that kind of prank would appeal to the Japanese sense of humor.