Feisty deer in Nara

Yes, at long last, I have a real computer and not just a smartphone, so I’m able to edit and upload photos to my heart’s content. Here’s the first installment of my pre-EyeFi photos (aka my photos from Nara, Japan which I visited two months ago).

Deer + fruit blossoms = Nara

Even the lanterns had deer in Nara!

Heijo Castle Archeological Site Signage

Heijo Castle Archeological Site

Trees to mark ancient pillars

Heijo Castle reconstruction

Heijo reconstruction

Me in front of the castle reconstruction

A turtle catching some rays – Heijo archeological site, Nara

Good hunting! Heijo archeological site, Nara

Delicious lunch of eel

Walking to Nara Park

Holy turtles, Batman! (near Nara Park)

You know you’re close to Nara Park when there are deer in the middle of the city

My first glimpse of the first temple in Nara Park

The Five Storied Pagoda in Nara Park

Five Storied Pagoda and one of the multitude of deer

Part of the complex of the Five Storied Pagoda

Nara deer

A shopkeeper had to shoo away an overly inquisitive deer

A stream – and deer – near the temple with the Great Buddha

Approaching my first Nara era temple complex

So many people! (Nara)

Bedraggled and shadowed, I’m in front of the temple in Nara housing the Great Buddha

The Great Buddha

Looking out from the temple

The stairs give you an indication of the size of the temple…and of the Buddha statue

The temple of the Great Buddha

Another temple complex (or part of the last?) on my way to a third temple in Nara

Somehow Gatorade sounds more appetizing

Lots of walking in Nara Park!

In case you didn’t get that smoking is prohibited, it’s also off limits

Looking up towards a temple

Lantern-lined approach to a temple in Nara

Nara temple

Approaching the temple

Last temple of the day – Nara

Side View “Lantern Temple”, Nara

Even more lanterns! (Nara)

A view of the stream by the lantern temple in Nara