Path through the stone forest

Today we arrived in Kyoto early. We dropped our bags off at our hotel (Citadines, which is awesome!!) and hiked on up to Kiyomizu-Dera. Its a famous shrine in Kyoto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyomizu-dera

On our way back into town from the shrine we passed through a massive graveyard. The path winded its way through the elaborate memorial stones like a trail through a stone forest.

This bent over old woman passed us and gave me a funny look as I read out Asahi from a vending machine.




Now back at the hotel I've saved the days images and uploaded them for safe storage. This was one of a couple of hundred of shots from today. The rest I want to edit more but only have a little netbook.