On Kamakura

Went to Kamakura today with xiayi, megumi, fai and nick. Fai and nick are megumi's friends :)
Kamakura seems like a less happening version of kyoto.... but yeah one day isn't enough to finish exploring the place, so I think I'll be making another trip down in the next two weeks of so:)

We walked 2 km to see the kamakura buddha, which was disappointingly smaller than i had expected... am waiting for xia yi and megumi to send me their photos, so there ain't that many now... :)

Kamakura Daibutsu

inside the Daibutsu

board talks about being inside the daibutsu...

After the daibutsu, we went to a temple nearby... supposed to be famous for the beautiful plants all year round... however... i think we went too early to see the plum blossoms in full bloom. Fortunately some early bloomers were there to greet us.

some more pictures from the temple... entrance area.

entrance area pond.

pathway to a smaller shrine, on temple grounds

A pond... after you climb a few stories of steps...

Thousands of buddha statues.

some more statues...

even more statues

inari shrine on the temple grounds

east wing

east wing temple bell

main temple area, incense burning

shot of main temple building, too big to capture with my cam

west wing

west wing tribute to uh... not sure which buddha

interesting flowers

rest area 1

Rest area 2

bamboo grove

inside bamboo grove

We back to the entrance, planning to go for lunch, but megumi discovered another shrine, this time in a cave :)
More pics coming up! will update soon... just feeling very very tired.