Kyoto 2016

After finishing our business trips in east Asia, we met in Kyoto and spent four days there to admire the cultural richness of Japan's historic capital. We visited the Kinkaku-Ji, also known as the "Golden Pavilion", one of Japan's most famous sights. Other Buddhist temples were the Daitoku-Ji with its famous raked gravel gardens, the monumental Nanzen-Ji and Chion-In temples, Fushimi Inari-Taisha with its thousands of gates, colorful Kiyomizu-Dera and the Nijō castle. Quite a lot of fun was the Arashiyama Monkey Park with an opportunity to feed wild Japanese macaque. The nearby city of Nara hosts one of the world's larges wooden structures, the Daibutsu-Den hall, which houses one of the world's largest bronze statute of Buddha, the 15m tall Daibutsu.

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Nara (cont.)

Gate at the path to the Kasuga Taisha

Kasuga Taisha

Shintō priest blessing two men

Portrait with deer

Herd of deer in the park