Tales of a Wandering Nerd

The gates looked exactly as I had imagined, I learned that the reason behind the red coloured gates is that the colour chases away evil and purifies you. There are many small prayer stations where you can make an offering and ring the bell to make a prayer. Leading up the mountain are more gates…

We started our day by hopping on a charter bus to Nara. When we got off we were greeting by hundreds of deer roaming among the crowds of people.  Many small stands selling crackers to feed to them. We walked over to the Todaiji temple and inside there was an enormous statues of Buda it…

The tunnels here are much too long to hold your breath going through if you tried you would undoubtedly die before you got to the other end.  They are so long that they need to have huge fans on the ceiling to move air and oxygen through the tunnel.