Eikando II.b

Looking back through our posts about our first trip, I'm realizing that we put very little detail into them. Probably because we were writing at internet cafe's and visitor info centres and were on a time limit. It was also not possible to really add pictures to those posts, so I'll throw a few of those in now for you.

On our first trip to Kyoto, we rented bikes the first day we were in the city and tried to find a few places like the Philosopher's Path.



Since I'm not a very good cyclist and was in a foul mood after having a run in with a wall (which I can now laugh about, instead of being embarrassed about) we ended up stopping before we found it and went in to the closest available temple. It turned out to be very cool despite the fact that it was under restoration. One of the things we wanted to do this time was find the temple again and see the artwork restored.

Because Lance is an awesome navigator, we actually found the temple quite easily. And discovered we were about 200 metres shy of the Philosopher's Path when we gave up on our first trip! (But that's ok as it probably would have done us in had we found it).

The first time through all of this was covered with scaffolding as they worked to bring back the original brilliance of the colours.

The temple also had a couple of other cool things like an awesome bell and the dragon walkway!