oN fOoT ...: November 2008

It's autumn season! Trees are changing colors, and eventually, leaves falling. For me who come from a tropical country, this kind of scene is a wow! I remembered that we have a picture frame in our house with a similar view-- lake and mountain during autumn. The mountain looked colorful with the changing colors of the leaves. And wow, last weekend I was not looking at pictures from a land i-dont-know-where, but I was enjoying the view for real!

Arashiyama, Kyoto was our destination last Saturday. We took the train from Takanohara Stn in Nara to... okey I can't remember hahaha. We changed trains like four or five times. Okey, I won't mention that we got lost in one of those times (sshhhh :p). We took the Keihann line, then Hankyu line to Arashiyama, Kyoto. There were so many people going to the same place. We had lunch beside the river while watching the birds and ducks :). We went to the Monkey Park! And you know what? There were so many monkeys in the Monkey Park hahaha. Oh, by the way, some reminders while in the monkey park:

Don't stare at them in the eyes (I mean, the monkeys).
Don't feed them outside (but you can feed them in the rest room, not restroom,okey?

Don't touch the monkeys.

yeah, the first one, don't even try it. Some monkeys just know you are staring at them. And they won't like it! Just trust us hehehe. Don't feed them outside... just feed them in the rest room. There is a place where you can feed the monkeys. There was a screen so it was safer to feed them. Don't touch the monkeys? I won't even dare!!! They even sound scary.... yiiii

After the Monkey park, we wanted to take the boat in the lake (river?). However, we were told that pictures are not allowed while in the boat. AGAIN??? okey, nevermind. we want to take pictures! so we decided not to. We just went around, crossed the bridge and had some snacks with okonomiyaki. We also went to Hogonin temple a night where lights added beauty to the colorful trees. I think they called it Momiji Park (momiji means autumn colours or maple). It was beautiful. But what a crowd. For me, it was beautiful but I would have enjoyed it if I was free to move around. But the crowd made it impossible to just move around.

The next day, we went to Minoo Park. The first time we went there was summer, so it was all green. Now the leaves are really nice but we were expecting more "reddish" leaves. Not all leaves are fiery red while others have started to fall off. But still, a beautiful sight.