One Day in Nara

Last thursday we went with the school to Nara, which is about 1.5 hours train from Kobe. Nara is a well known place for its Shrines and Temples. It was not the first time for me to visit Nara. I went there already last November.

There is an article with all the details on wikipedia, but to give you an idea, some of the most interesting thins are that Nara was the Capital City of Japan for about 70 years, from the 710 to the 780 a.c

The Picture above was taken friday. Is a view of the Todaji Temple. The interesting thing is that this building is the biggest Wooden building in the world.

The picture below was taken in november (HDR) and it shows a dramatic view from one of the many temples.

This week is called "The Golden Week", because many japanese will dave days off. Many companies close and employees get one of the longest holidays for the whole year...about 6 days. During this time, all japanese travel everywhere and prices are at the top.

At the same time, some schools, before the Golden week as last Thursday, use to go sightseing and therefore, we met a lot of young school children...

At the sight of a foreigner (not many around) sometimes they just come....and greet you :). They ask you a couple of things in the little english they know, shake your hand (they see it from the movies, but they maybe never tried it) and try to exchange few words.

They are really nice and during the hour of train to get to nara, they asked many things, like what is my shoes size, my weight...and wondered how big was my nose. You might laught at it, but in japan, many times happened that people, even adults, make a comment on my nose. They kind of like bigger noses and i was told that should be taken as a compliment.

So, after getting to nara, we all said goodbye, but before that, a nice group photo :) Sayonara my little friends!