Starting off the day with a macca's run or a morning coffee hit at Starbucks below the hotel, the crew had collected at 8:30 to start the sightseeing the best of what Kyoto has to offer. Starting off with heinjigu shrine with the sun bearing down on us we search for the shade in the large courtyard, with a quick bus ride or two we were off to the golden temple known as Kinkakuji. When setting off to kiyomizudera we had been pushed into the cramped bus, after the long bus ride we had landed at the bottom of the large hill looking up to see the many temples we were set the challenge to find lunch, with many crabbing lunch at the convenience store "Lawson" and others finding pockets of goodness amongst the many shops. With many hours spent looking through the large temples and walking to smaller ones we had been called back a 3:00 to head to "Gion" the geisha suburb of Japan. Tea had been shabushabu with everyone being full, from the all you can eat deal. Then the hunt had started to find a geisha girl, with myself, Miss Gamble, Mrs. Bookham and Christine to find the first and only geisha girl of the night with countless attempts to get a good photo but as they say " it was the lighting " with that ending our night.
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