Nara: A deer ate my map.

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Originally uploaded by robizumi.

These pics are from our trip to Nara. The deer in this photo looks cute and all, but let me tell you the deer are jerks, even though they bow before you give them a deer treat. Nara was a beautiful and confounding city. I can't imagine a major American city with a thriving deer population in the center of town. The deer don't seem to be fenced in, but the streets seemed clear of dear carcuses. In addition to the deer the largest buddah in Japan is there. It's called the Daibutsu which actually means big buddah, perhaps it has another offical name but people seem to call it just Daibutsu. It is in Todaiji which I mentioned as the place for the Omizutori in an earlier post.