Marc's Public Blog - Trips to other locations

The week we were there, was also "schoolkid visit everything" week, so we saw many everywhere :)

Todai-ji, which houses the great Buddha

it's supposed to be good luck to go through this hole in a pillar

We then continued our tour of the park and its sights, with Mino-San's lead:

Eventually came time for a nice lunch:

Speaking of lunch, Nara Park is known for deer which are used to being fed, and can be very hopeful and begging. If you have something that looks like a rice cracker in your hands, it might be eaten :)

first, they look cute and all

oh, there are more :)

this one knew where the rice crackers came from :)

hello, pet me and I'll eat your map :)

some school kids started being overwhelmed by the attention a bit :)

And back to our visit to see more of Nara Park and we finished outside the park:

And after parting ways with our guide (thank you), we went to sake tasting, and learned about neko cafes, cafes where you can pay for some amount of time to interact with cats if you don't have your own (not a bad idea actually):

Later, we walked back to our Ryokan through a nice park, and deer feeding locations to use up the crackers we had bought:

nice and quiet after everyone has left :)

From there, we headed to Hotel New Wakasa, our great ryokan for sunset from their terrace, dinner served in our room, onsen, and some good sleep, not excluding a nice breakfast served in our room the next morning too.

Yum!

And sleepy time after dinner:

And a nice breakfast the next morning:

Bye bye Nara, we'll remember you :)