Monday at Kamakura

Hey guys. So today we went to Kamakura to check out the huge outdoor Buddha and a few other shrines around the Kamakura area. The bus ride was about 1 hour long, but passed by really fast when you are talking with friends. The weather today was really hot and humid still, and with the typhoon passing over through the night, it didn't rain with the sun out all day. arriving at about 9am, we toured around many different shrines and temples, aided by our English speaking Japanese tour guide. After the first toursite, i had really regretted wearing jeans today as we had to travel up and down many stairs under the hot, midday sun. The statues and architecture if the buildings at the tour sites were really amazing, as some of the buildings were built without even the use of nails, just wood. Just before our last toursite, we had lunch at a japansese restaurant together, where we had chicken rice, soba and some kind of miso soup. Lunch was good, and suprisingly filled me up quite well. The last place we went to was where the big outdoor Daibutsu Buddha. You could even pay 20yen to go inside the statue. After the tours finished at about 3pm, we had about an hour to go around the local shops and buy whatever we wanted. returning to the bus at 4pm. It was a long, tiring, sweaty day, but all in all it was good exercise and i had a lot of fun.