Hello everyone,I'm here today to tell you about our adventure of two (or three?) weeks ago. Mike and I went to the island of Miyajima, in the inland sea. To get to Miyajima, we took two trains and a ferry ride :) in all, it took about 1 and a half hours. The ferry ride took only about 7-10 minutes.
As with before, I've uploaded the majority of the photos to my Flickr account, which is linked here: Miyajima and Yamato
Miyajima was kind of fun, but it was quite hot that day, so it was sort of uncomfortable. There was a lot of things we wanted to see, but often involved climbing a mountain, or a whole load of stairs or something. We decided we'd come back again another day when it was cooler so we could see more of the island.
Miyajima is inhabited by loads of deer. (and also monkeys, though we didn't see any wild ones, only one trained pet monkey) The deer are so accustomed to large groups of people and eating anyhting and everything, that it was very difficult to eat on the island. A few times deer stuck their heads in my low pockets and ate what they found there (reciepts at first). On the way back to the ferry terminal, we saw a deer accost some poor guy of his travel brocoure and ate the front and back page.
Because Hiroshima is famous for growing oysters, there were many oyster stalls grilling fresh oysters and serving them. We decided to eat shaved ice instead. (Mike had cola flavour, I had mango) which was a nice reprieve from the heat.
One of the fames of Miyajima, is the giant "Torii" gate in the water. When we were there that day, the water was out, but it did mean we could walk up and touch the gate. Otherwise the gate seems to just float along the top (although it isn't really floating..)
A week later, Mike, our neighbour Alex, and I went to see the Kure/ yamato battleship museum. I liked the museum, and they even provided us with an engish audio tour, but I defenitely would have appreciated it more if I could read more Japanese. Most of the museum didn't allow photos, so I only have a few...
The top floor of the museum was the coolest though. It had a lot of what seemed like science fair toys. you got to play with (water) wave systems and all sorts of things I can't actually explain but were fun.
Tonight I'm going to go have a shower and then maybe trim my bangs. (I'm starting to need a haircut haha)
