Arashiyama - Blogabond

Went to Arashiyama today, a great area for walking around and a half-day hike. Took the bus to Arashiyama and first entered the Tenryu-ji (lit. Sky Dragon Temple), 500yen for the garden, another 100yen for the temple itself. Seemed about right in proportion, the most interesting part was probably the room with sliding screen paintings.

Tenryu-ji

Tenryu-ji screen paintings

Tenryu-ji dry garden

I exited the temple garden by its north exit and reached the main reason for my visit here, the bamboo forest.
Pictures:

Adopted child?

Arashiyama bamboo forest

Bamboo grafiti?

Arashiyama bamboo forest

As I still had time, I decided to add a hike to the Monkey Mountain.

Monkey Mountain map

Took some time and left me pretty drenched (well, it was a hot day after all), but it is not a hard track to reach the top.

And then there were the monkeys:

And it is the time of year where the young monkeys are around:

Monkey kid

Monkey kids

The view on there was really great, overlooking Kyoto and the surrounding mountains. Also, there is a rest place up there where you can feed the monkeys through a wire fence. Yes, you are in a cage, not the monkeys.

Gret view

Took quite a lot of pictures of monkeys and bamboo today.
Went back after that and did some souvenir shopping. Tomorrow I will be taking a look at Gion some more, lots to see there.

So long and stay tuned,
JuergenS

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JuergenS on July 20, 2010 from Kyoto, Japan

from the travel blog: Two month of Japan

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