by Nan Rae | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
…..away from it all on Mt. Koya, Wakayama prefecture, Japan. The Sekishi-In Temple. It’s quite high up there and the road is steep and winding….sort of shut your eyes going around the curves’ drive. But so incredibly beautiful with trees...
by Nan Rae | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
BBONNIE-SAN: THE CHERRY TREE This morning. I was seated in the restaurant facing a magnificent old Cherry tree growing in a waterfall garden. I was suddenly overwhelmed with emotion and began to weep, tears streaming down my cheeks – for those I have...
by Nan Rae | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
We got excited when we saw a few deer as the bus entered the city of Nara. It’s here that the world’s largest bronze casting, the GIANT Daibutsu sits in the Todai-ji Temple. The Buddha sits in the ‘Daibutsuden’ (the largest wooden...
by Nan Rae | Apr 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Early morning & we left the hotel for Kinetsu Kyoto station…..destination…Toba Station and Mikimoto Pearl Island. On the train. Amy, our wonderful guide for the second half of our journey looks as if she’s wearing a Mickey Mouse hat!...
by Nan Rae | Apr 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
Adjacent to Shirakawa Dori Street…..through the old wooden houses, lined back streets & alleyways of Kyoto’s famous geisha districts and you can see geiko or maiko ( Geisha’s and Geisha ‘apprentices’) walking along in full dress, hair...
by Nan Rae | Apr 5, 2014 | Uncategorized
……….This incredible street is next to the Shirawaka Canal. During the day or in the evening you’re transported to a dream world. Throngs of people celebrating and photographing the Cherry trees do not deminish the experience. ...
