Kyoto!

And did I ever sleep.

I went to my hostel yesterday at 4.05 pm. Took a shower and hopped in bed for some reading and a 'little' nap at 5pm. I awoke groggy and stupid at 10pm, rolled over and went back to sleep. I woke up today at 7.30 am. Heh, I guess I was a little run down.

This morning I wandered around a couple of gorgeous temples in Central Kyoto. They were quite large and temple-y. I don't have much else to say about them except I had a lot of fun hiking around them. I am not shinto or buddhist, so I don't have any particular spiritual gain from these places, just historical gain. And even then, not much. I guess I just like 'em cause they're purty.

This afternoon was the most ginormous temple ground ever. Its called Fushimi Inari Taisha and it is the 'temple of legends.' You know, the one with like 50,000 temple markers? The temple marker is the two vertical posts on either side of the path and two horizontal posts across the top, one above the other. I would post a picture, but I am in the same net-cafe as yesterday, so, no usb port. But they are orange and literaly thousands and thousands of them.

Unfortunatley for me, I'm an idiot. While I was approx. 5 miles away from the main shrine, and my train station, I ended up in a portion of trail where it was impossible to put up markers because right next to the path on one side was a creek. So I happily wandered along with only a couple of shrine marker things. Then none because the creek was still there and getting biggish, but still a creek.

After 20 minutes of no temple signs, I realized the creek wasn't next to me anymore and I was out in the middle of nowhere. Now, did I turn back and cower under the protective gaze of the shrine thingys? No, good sir, I pressed on. I almost had to hop a fence into someone's backyard. I did cut through it, but there was an open gate-ish thing. I'm not really sure. Then I wandered around a very old portion of town. It was quite nice. I have a picture or two. Then I got sick of being lost and hungry and asked a dude for directions. He lovingly provided them in Japanese and I loved it when he started using hand motions because now I could use them. Words aren't needed in this world, really. They only cause problems.

Then back into town for the internet and not being on my feet. They were very, very angry that I walked around from 7.30am until 5pm. Not happy at all.

Okay, time for me to head off to my hostel to try and find someone to have dinner with. I haven't had a conversation longer then 5 minutes since I left Tokyo, I'm forgetting my own language!