Nara Ra Ra Ra

So when the family came to visit, Dave, Brian, Mel and myself went to visit Nara, the oldest capital of Japan.

Now it's known for it's Deer and it's giant Buddha, and that's pretty much what we saw. In fact if you look at our photos, 50% are of Deer, 40% are of a Giant Buddha, or his house (Todaji) and the rest are of ... well .... other stuff you take photos of.

Having said that, the Deer were cool, super tame and some of them bowed when they wanted food. And yes the Buddha was frigging huge!!! Like ridiculously big! In fact people could fit through his nostril! Its a story that if you can fit through the hole in the pillar in the temple (the size of the Buddha's nostril) you can get into Nirvana! Dave considered but was too damn chicken!!

So that was Nara.