Am 28.12. then we went to Nara for a day. I can only recommend, as the almost 1 hour ride from Kyoto to Nara is really feasible and certainly can handle in one day. yes everything is located on the famous sights in Nara Park, which is known for its free-running deer, are considered sacred.
So we are at first somewhat run through the park, roughly in the direction of Todaiji, where the largest Buddha statue in Japan is. On the way, at least we were not, of course drumrum, to feed the famous Nararehe and make the obligatory photos.
The Todaiji then was really impressive. Even if you've already seen many temples and shrines, the Todaiji is again a completely different caliber. It also said David, who was slowly fed up with the cultural program and would have preferred the Manga Museum in Kyoto to Nara instead. In the end he was glad to have yet seen Nara, that is not called the cradle of culture of Japan. The Todaiji
any case is a temple complex, whose main hall is truly gigantic. 50 m high, the building, making it the largest built of wood in the world. The Buddha statue is itself "only" 17 m tall, but there are also various statues Daeva (Japanese demons) in the building and models of how the temple looked like before. So a clever mix of museum and temple. The main attraction for us, however, was the small hole in one of the supporting piles near the exit. The guide told us that whoever there by crawling, find enlightenment. Now we both were doubtful of the little hole through which Japanese children crawling and definitely not for European body was. (Whether the stupid foreigners enlightenment not begrudge;? P) I did not scare me at any rate and was an attraction, but I am very inelegant squeezed through the opening. David let me do and supported me by all documented:
After Todaiji we were walking around even more, went first to the Nara National Museum (which, in comparison to Tokyo then quite was disappointing ...) and then came to the northern temple, the road was already packed with thousands of lanterns. The name of the temple, I have unfortunately forgotten, but he was not so extraordinary. The lanterns were definitely the best part! ^ ^
However, we were so tired from all the running around that we just decided to back the rickshaw to the train station took. This was also the gold right decision for us was brewing over a violent thunderstorm, which we narrowly escaped.
We arrived back at least dry in Kyoto, picked up our luggage and went after a good supper again after the night bus home. The next day we spent with recovery to be fit for New Year!
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