July 12, 2008 – I spent the day sightseeing around Kyoto with Theo. It was HOT and HUMID! We walked about 1/3 of the Imperial Palace grounds, visited Nijo-jo Castle and ended up in Arashiyama admiring a world-famous garden and a view of Kyoto complete with Monkeys!
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- Imperial Palace Shrine
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- Shrine Wash Basin
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- Wash Basin
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- Shrines
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- Shrine Gateway
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- Imperial Palace “Guardian Cats”
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- Lovely Pond
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- Father and Son
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- Park Gate
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- The Imperial Palace Main Road
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- Palace Gate
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- One Clever Dog Keeping Cool…
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- Walls of Nijo-jo Castle
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- Main Gate, Nijo-jo
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- Nijo-jo Palace
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- Nijo-jo
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- Water Garden
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- Nijo-jo Water Lilies
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- Beautiful Garden
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- Lovely Palms—a bit of a curiosity
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- From the Walls of Nijo-jo
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- Nijo-jo teahouse
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- Castle Walls
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- Steam Locomotive, Arashiyama
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- Fisherman
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- Famous Bridge at Arashiyama
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- Lily ponds at Tenryu-ji Temple, Arashiyama
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- Jizo-san, Arashiyama
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- Tenryu-ji Temple
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- World-Famous Gardens of Tenryu-ji
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- Tea Garden, Tenryu-ji
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- More Tenryu-ji Gardens
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- Strolling Path
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- Bamboo Forest
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- Bamboo Forest
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- Bamboo Forest Path
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- Happy Jizo-san, Arashiyama
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- Crane in the River, Arashiyama
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- Don’t Feed the Monkeys!
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- Saru-san!
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- Mother and Baby, Arashiyama Monkey Park
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- They have a pretty good view, huh?
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- My buddy checks the view, Arashiyama
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- Spectacular View of Kyoto
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- Me, Theo and our Monkey Friend
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- It’s a regular Monkey Mountain!
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- Arashiyama Town
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- Teru Teru Bozu (Fair-weather doll)
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- Another View of Arashiyama
journey, not destination 