Takayama was a quiet, but enjoyable, 3 days. It felt like the kind of place that would often be busy with tourists, but wasn't... for some reason. Kind of felt like we had it to ourselves.
There we saw some of the best examples of the Japanese autumn colours so far and some really nice old buildings and stuff. As Maddie said, we even stayed in a 200 year old Gassho style house... which was very cool.
Now we're in Kyoto. One of my most anticipated cities of the whole trip and so far it hasn't disappointed. I feel much more relaxed here than I did in Tokyo and subsequently, I think i'm enjoying it more.
We've been to numerous historical sites around the place. The kind of place that would get boring if you went to too many of them.... if they weren't situated in such a visually satisfying way. It's hard to get sick of these colours. Highlights so far would be the bamboo forest and the moss covered grounds of one of the temples we visited today. One of our failures would have been spending 45 minutes searching for a waterfall which turned out to be nothing more than a glorified outdoor shower.
So yeah, we're having a fun time. A steady diet of various simple rice and noodle dishes is keeping us on our feet for the 3-6km we seem to be walking each day and the 2nd lot of books we just bought will keep us going at night for a few more weeks. haven't really got into the social side of hostel living just yet, but that's probably because this is our first actual hostel and a quiet one at that.
Hope everyone is well! Goodnight.
Currently listening to -
Benoit Pioulard - Temper
The Modern Lovers - s/t
Lykke Li - Youth Novels
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie
Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill
Books read so far -
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Marukami
Vernon God Little - DBC Pierre (currently reading)
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happy birthday for the other day BLAKE!
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