Day Thirteen - Deer, Oh Dear

We started the day by (surprise, surprise) visiting another shrine. However this one was kinda cool. Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine which is an inri shrine, whose spirit is a fox and is the spirit (god) of fertility, rice, tea and Sake, of agriculture and industry, and of general prosperity and worldly success, but that’s not the cool bit. The walk up to this shrine has 1000's and 1000's of tori gates of all differing sizes and does make for a pretty awesome sight. We then took the train out to Nara. Nara again has lots of shrines and temples, but what it is currently famous for is the hoards of wild deer that roam around the parks and

town, and boy are they so freakin cute. There are carts everywhere where you can buy cookies for the deer. You offer the deer a cookie and then you bow, then it bows then it snatches the cookie from your hand, or sometimes they aren't that patient and will give you a little bite or nudge if you have the cookies, which apparently are like deer crack. I attempted several times not to freak out but ended up throwing all by cookies at the hoards of deer that were coming at me and running away. They were still pretty cute though. Any way we made our way towards the great eastern temple (Tōdai-ji), we made our way quite slowly as buying deer cookies became my new favourite thing to do. The temple has the biggest sitting Buddha in the world, and it's true, this thing is HUGE! and really ornate and beautiful. Once done we made our way back, me feeding the deer along the way, i found an old one with no teeth by it's self and spent some time chilling with her feeding her cookies.

Back to Kyoto and had some amazing Gyoza at a cute restaurant around the corner from our hotel and then sleep.