Nara Park and Kyoto

5 Story Pagoda in Nara Park

Not really sure.

The tame deer of the park

The (closed) entrance way to the largest wooden building in the world.

The Entranceway to the big wooden building

Lots of deer at feeding time.
Sunset over Nara
Tom and I in front of the Big wooden building that holds a huge Budda (the Dibuditsu or something like that)
The big Budda himself
Brad trying to crawl through a hole in a pillar that is the size of the Budda's nostril (yes, I made it)
The same entrance way, but, open this time

Feeding the deer

Petting the Deer

The Bear (Frapachino) ridding the Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
Palace in Kyoto.  These paintings are hundreds of years old.  The floor is designed to squeak like a nightingale whenever anyone walks over it - hence the name, the nightingale floor

 

More from the palace, this is gold painting - as in the paint was real gold

The outside of part of the palace

Tommy and I in front of the entranceway to the palace with the nightingale floor

Part of the wall to the palace

A nice entranceway to a shrine in Downtown Kyoto

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