Asia

We started out from Osaka by bus and headed for Nara Prefecture. The trip showed the massive scale of the motorways and a 5km tunnel connecting Osaka with Nara.

The weather is perfect for our tour and it should make for some great photos

We first visited the Todai-ji Buddhist temple where the number of deer was immense and they were very keen on tourists with food. The deer had recently had their antlers removed in a local ceremony during Autumn, otherwise they could have been very scary as they ran fat at each other but seemed to avoid tourists

Tōdai-ji (東大寺?, Eastern Great Temple)[1] is aBuddhist temple complex, that was once one of the powerful Seven Great Temples, located in the city ofNara, Japan. Its Great Buddha Hall (大仏殿Daibutsuden?), houses the world's largest bronze statue of the Buddha[2] Vairocana,[3] known in Japanese simply as Daibutsu (大仏?). The temple also serves as the Japanese headquarters of theKegon school of Buddhism. The temple is a listed UNESCO World Heritage Site as one of the "Historic Monuments of Ancient Nara", together with seven other sites including temples, shrines and places in the city of Nara. Deer, regarded as messengers of the gods in the Shinto religion, roam the grounds freely.Läs mer