Oh Deer

We went on a day trip from Osaka to Nara to visit the deer park. The park is famous for its many deer, who have around under the trees waiting for tourists to buy cookies to feed them with. The deer will bow their heads to you to let you know they want a cookie, and you're expected to bow back to them.

Nathan found out the hard way that they get a little demanding when it comes to these cookies, getting a little love bite from a particular deer that thought it wasn't getting its fair share of cookies. We think they had a little bit of a "gang mentality" going, so we moved off to a quieter area to feed some other deer.

Also around the complex, Nathan found a koi pond with some absolute dinosaur fish in it, and one last Sakura tree blossoming.

After we were finished at the deer Park, we had the local lunch dish, rice served in a piping hot metal bowl which browned the edges of the rice. We wandered the streets a little bit before we caught the train back to Osaka for a restful afternoon.

Dinner we had another Japanese BBQ, enjoying some Wagyu beef this time.Read more