Tour Diary - Day 11: Day Trip to Kyoto and Osaka

Day 11- 10th December

We started the day with breakfast, followed by kangaroo court, in which Joe Chamoun received Wally. We got a coach to Kiyomizu, where we visited the front of a temple. Kiyomizu is in Kyoto which was once the Capital of Japan and the designs of its buildings are quite ancient. We got pictures with some Japanese people outside the temple and discovered our popularity as tourists. There were many shops down from the temple, and we managed to buy some souvenirs. After another bus ride we arrived at King Kinkaku-Ji (golden temple). We wandered around the gardens where the temple was located, taking pictures and observing the gardens around where the temple is located. We took the bus to lunch, where we enjoyed a traditional Japanese meal. After that we travelled to Osaka castle. Osaka was a very strategically valuable castle in Ancient Japanese times, due to its great defences, including large walls and moats, which were very difficult to scale and move around. We then went to Shinsaibashi-suji and Dotonbori, where we went shopping for two hours. In the end it was a very eventful day, and quite relaxing.

Lachlan Gai