This weekend I went to Arashiyama and Fushimi Inari! I went to Arashiyama on Saturday, and Fushimi Inari on Monday, so I guess it wasnโt technically the weekendโฆ
Arashiyama was such a blast! I went with some people from the school, and also with a couple of Japanese girls we met! The first thing we did was eat – there was sooo much food.
After that we went to see the Arashiyama monkey park! The monkeys are wild animals, so you canโt get close to them, but they just roam freely! It was so neat to see them just living and interacting with the buildings and the visitors.
The area around the park was so beautiful. Iโm a little upset about how Japan sort of ropes off all the nature. You can see it, but you canโt get to it. I want to be out with the trees!
After the monkey park, we went to the bamboo forest!
We also went to some temples and shrines nearbyโฆbut I donโt remember the names. (;๏น;)
On Monday, I met my friend Grace! Sheโs from UNT also, but sheโs studying abroad up at Ristumeikan in Kyoto! We went to Fushimi Inari!
The orange everywhereโฆ(*๏พโ๏พ*)
I loved all the smaller shrines! And the view was sooo pretty. You could see almost all of Kyoto. We went to a big, quiet temple near Kyoto-eki after that to wind downโฆagain, I forgot the name. ( โขฬ โขฬ) It was really, really nice though, I loooved it.
It was an exciting weekend of outings! I canโt wait to go even more places!