GOOD MORNING KYOTO, TODAY WE WOKE AND DECIDED TO HEAD TO NARA A ANCIENT CAPITAL OF JAPAN. WE TOOK ANOTHER 1 HOUR TRAIN SOUTH EAST OF KYOTO. AFTER ARRIVING AT NARA WE WENT TO THE TOURIST INFO AND THEY TOLD US THAT WE COULD DRESS UP LIKE A GEISHA TODAY AND GO TO A TRADITIONAL TEA CEROMONY FOR FREE. WE THOUGHT WOW WE GOT LUCKY ON ATTENDING THE DAY AS IT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE A MONTH AND THAT IT WAS FREE!
WHEN WE GOT THERE THEY ASKED TO PICK A COLOUR OF KIMONA THEY HAD A BOOK WITH DIFFERENT PICTUERS AND TO PICK ONE, I PICKED A WHITE AND PURPLE KIMONA. TO GET DRESSED INTO THE KIMONA YOU NEED TO GET COMPLETELY UNDRESSED AND PLACE ON THE FIRST LAYER, AFTER THE FIRST LAYER THE LITTLE JAPANNESE LADY CONTUNIED TO PUT MANY MORE LAYERS ON AND TO CONTINUE TO WRAP FABRIC AROUND MY WASTE, MY SLEVES OF MY KIMONA WHERE LONG THAT SYMOBILOZED NOT MARRIED, AFTER GETTING ALL DRESSED INTO MY KIMONA THEY DID MY HAIR AND PLACED LITTLE FLOWERS TO LOOK TRADTIONAL, AFTER GETTING DRESSED WE HAD A TRADTIONAL TEA CEROMONY, FOR THE CEROMONY WE HAD TO CRAWL INTO A SMALL HUT (THE DOOR WAS SO SMALL IT DIDNT LOOK LIKE I WAS GOING TO FIT LOL) AFTER GETTING IN WE WHERE TAUGHT THE TRADTIONAL WAY TO HAVE TEA,. AT THE BEGINING OF THE CEROMONY YOU ARE BROUGHT OUT A SWEET TO EAT AS THE TEA IS BITTER TASTING. WHEN EVER RECEIVING ANYTHING FROM THE HOST YOU MUST ALWAYS BOW TO HER, SHE WOULD MAKE THE TEA FOR ME. SHE WOULD SCOOP UP SOME GREEN TEA POWDER PLACE IT IN A BOWL AND STIR IT WAS A WOODEN STICK AND THEN PASS IT TO ME, I WAS THEN TO BOW AGAIN TO HER TO THANK HER, THE TEA WAS THICK AND KINDA PASTY BUT IT DID TASTE OKAY AND WAS BRIGHT GREEN IN COLOUR. AFTER THE TEA CEROMONY SHE GAVE US A ORGAMI GEISHA BOOKMARK IT LOOKED REALLY COOL AND WAS A GOOD SOUVENIOR.
AFTER TEA WE DECIED TO HEAD MORE INTO THE NATIONAL PARK OF NARA , UPON ENTERING INTO THE PARK THERE WAS DEER EVERYWHERE, SUPPOSABLY THE DEER AT THE PARK WHERE A GIFT FROM THE GODS OF NARA AND WHERE TO STAY THERE TO PROTECT. THE DEER WHERE SO TAME AND USED OF VISTORS THEY WOULD WALK RIGHT UP TO YOU IN SEARCH OF FOOD. AFTER SEEING ALL THE DEER WE WENT INTO THE LARGEST WOODEN STRUCTURE "Todai-ji Temple 東大寺'' inside here was the largest buddha standing 15meters high and weighing 437 tonnes , it was very cool!
AFTER ANOTHER DAY OF SIGHTSEEING WE WHERE TIRED AGAIN AND CRAWLED INTO BED EARLY
