Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Japan




Yahoooo! I have got some time which i feel a bit hardworking so i edited more photo :)


Rainy day in Kyoto. But at least we managed to borrow a nice normal looking brolly instead of those auntie flowery ones heh.

 Entrance to Kiyomizu Temple.



The view is breath-taking. I would love to be here in autumn when the leaves turn red.




 Most of the little shrines look similar to me, but apparently they have different 'functions'. Some are to bless your love life, some for your family etc. Just plop some coins in and ring the bell! Something gets blessed somehow.


Haha! Stones dressed in red aprons :)



Apparently the whole of the main structure is built on wooden stilts. HMM! It IS an extremely large structure.








Cozy looking shop front.


Narrow streets filled with rows of shops. Touristy shops no doubt.


Dinner for the day was a super healthy tofu meal. ALMOST vegetarian except for the one piece of prawn.  It was a bland, expensive novel idea.


Doesn't it look like tofu steamboat? But this is how you eat it. Wait for the top layer to cool down and harden...

Then you lift it up! -_- It is unbelievably soft and silky, but also tasteless. You can dip it into their soya sauce but again defeats the 'heath meal' purpose. I guess we had a little thrill from producing sheets of tofu.

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