Time flies

Hello there.

The Great Buddha or Kamakura Daibutsu over 24M tall

The Great Buddha

Todd hiking the Daibutsu hiking trail in Kamakura

Rich trudging up the hill

Todd and Rich overlooking Kamakura and Sagami Bay

Shrine entrance

Todd lighting candles as part of the Shrine tradition

Rich and Todd lighting candles

Burning incense at a shrine. Patting your head with the smoke is considered good luck

Washing money at the Zeniarai Benten Shrine

At the Shrine entrance you can partake in the ritualistic hand washing

Eggs as an offering-read about it in this link

About this shrine

Offering the eggs

My nephew's travel bear

Todd in a cave

Some stone statues at a temple-probably shouldn't be taking pictures with a travel bear

This is good luck-Happy Buddha

It's been way too long. We've been so busy and I haven't had much of a chance to post anything but today there is some reprieve. Todd, Richard and I made it to Kamakura on Sunday and I wanted to post some photos from that day. Kamakura south of Tokyo and is famed for the Big Buddha (Diabutsu) as well as many shrines and temples.