Big Adventures, Little World

You’d think after the long weekend at Fuji Rock we would be asleep through to the night, but if you thought that, you’d be wrong! After getting home at midnight from Fuji Rock, we were again up at quarter to 5, the next morning to go to Zenkoji Temple, tired as hell and a whole 4kgs lighter, to try and see the monks in their morning ceremony. Unfortunately we got there a bit late and they had finished before we got there, so we went home to sleep.

Later in the day we went back to Zenkoji Temple to as I say, ‘ get our enlightenment on’ which involved walked through a pitch black tunnel under the temple which was supposed to clear the mind. On the way back we got the local ‘thing’ which was soba crepes, and they turned out to be quite nice, and then we went to the ninja village in Togakushi.

The ninja village was so much fun, with a house with trick passages and doors we had to try and navigate our way through, then another little house which would start rocking around and moving once you got inside. Walking up the stairs to the next level was a bit difficult but no doubt fun, or funny, especially as Belinda nearly fell down trying to make a video of herself walking up the stairs and being ‘freaked out’ about it.

After the ninja village we went back home again to catch up on more sleep, especially as we planned on going back to the temple again tomorrow, earlier this time to make sure we see the monks in ‘action.’ By action I mean praying and being zen and such.