Down the Japanese paths.

Hey, it's Sam. Ive been busy reading maps and planning our itinerary for kyoto so I've been pretty rubbish at posting on this blog. But,  Japan so far has been amazing. My fav part of Tokyo was our day in Harajuku and Cj running afer the harajuku girls to get a pic of them (he wasn't discreet). Harajuku was quirky and hip. We looked very unfashionable and a bit out of place in my bum bag, Cj's flip flops and his paper fan he is so adamant to take with him everywhere, lol. 

We are in Kyoto at the moment and its exactly how I imagined Japan to look. We have to walk down cute 'lil streets and over mini bridges to get to our hostel. Pretty much all the architecture looks like traditional paper houses and we have bumped into many geisha's, some are not too keen on getting their photo taken so they shy away from the camera. 

On Friday we went to a place called Arashiyama which is an adorable little town. Figuring out the train to get there was eventful but when we got there we saw picturesque mountains, temples and scenic hill top views. Sounds like a girly day out!

The Tenryuji temple is here and it's a zen place. The garden around this temple tops kew gardens. Luckily it wasn't too busy here so we got some amazing pics for the album. 

Behind the temple is the famous path of bamboo. Apart from it being nice to get out the boiling hot sun, this path was really cool to walk.

Today (sunday), we visited another cool path. This time, the path was up a zillion steps to another famous shrine at the top of a mountain. Luckily it rained so it made this hike more bearable. The path was at the Fushimi-inari taisha shrine and the path we had to walk was through a tunnel of red Torii gates. Deffo a path worth the sweaty look once you've made it to the top. Just for a cheesy couple pic we marked our names on a torii gate. Haha!

In terms of eating in Japan, I am in my element. Rice for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Tomorrow we are planning to walk another path called 'Philosopher's road'. Our legs are going to be mega toned with all this walking we are doing. 

Xxx