For our Kyoto assignment we had to visit five
places from the list and write a little information on each. To be honest this
assignment could have been done in a day. After a late start our group went
from four down to two by the time we reached the Imperial Palace. We missed the
tour by barely 10 minutes so we grabbed some lunch and came back for the 1 o'
clock tour. Unexpectedly we met a girl from Canada who was travelling around,
but we didn't see her much after the tour. We only walked around the perimeter
of the Palace, viewing each decorated gate that served for a different class.
Large orange columns held up the outside structure, and we could see the open
courtyard between the doors. At the rear of the building we saw the gardens,
stretched out across the way with interconnecting ponds and heaps of flora
wherever you looked. There was so much beauty in this place, it would have been
nice to just stay and observe it a little longer, but soon the tour ended and
we returned to the Kyoto streets.
From the Imperial Palace we took a bus to Ginkakuji The landscape and gardens were amazingly pretty but the building itself was... underwhelming. We didn't even know we passed it until we reached the end, and then it was like, wait... That's it? It was kind of hidden, and a less shiny silver than we expected, but it was still in good shape. The part that threw us off was the trail took up all the way up a mountain where we tossed some 1 yen coins and tried to get them into a bowl for good luck, and then all the way back down to a small building right before the path became lined with towering bushes (like they would be in a maze, only there was no getting lost here).
By now it was almost 5 o' clock so many touring locations were closing for the day. Since we were unable to visit anymore stops we returned to our hotel. We went wandering around the shopping area again, but this time we had a chance to talk to some of the workers. We had a long surprise conversations with a girl who worked at a bag store (I eventually bought my awesome backpack from her since I needed another bag for check-in). Then a few minutes later, when we were looking for a hat for Lynnette we had a conversation with a different guy... he was probably just trying to convince to buy the hat in the end but we didn't so it was kind of awkard. We also stopped in a store that was decked out in soccer swag- I searched for a jersey for my brother, but they didn't have any of Rinaldo's and I wasn't about to drop $70+ on a shirt he didn't want.
This was the day that we discovered milk tea, it should not be consumed in large quantities.
From the Imperial Palace we took a bus to Ginkakuji The landscape and gardens were amazingly pretty but the building itself was... underwhelming. We didn't even know we passed it until we reached the end, and then it was like, wait... That's it? It was kind of hidden, and a less shiny silver than we expected, but it was still in good shape. The part that threw us off was the trail took up all the way up a mountain where we tossed some 1 yen coins and tried to get them into a bowl for good luck, and then all the way back down to a small building right before the path became lined with towering bushes (like they would be in a maze, only there was no getting lost here).
By now it was almost 5 o' clock so many touring locations were closing for the day. Since we were unable to visit anymore stops we returned to our hotel. We went wandering around the shopping area again, but this time we had a chance to talk to some of the workers. We had a long surprise conversations with a girl who worked at a bag store (I eventually bought my awesome backpack from her since I needed another bag for check-in). Then a few minutes later, when we were looking for a hat for Lynnette we had a conversation with a different guy... he was probably just trying to convince to buy the hat in the end but we didn't so it was kind of awkard. We also stopped in a store that was decked out in soccer swag- I searched for a jersey for my brother, but they didn't have any of Rinaldo's and I wasn't about to drop $70+ on a shirt he didn't want.
This was the day that we discovered milk tea, it should not be consumed in large quantities.
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