{"id":2184,"date":"2015-08-18T14:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/?p=2184"},"modified":"2017-08-21T04:02:36","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T04:02:36","slug":"japan-day-13-nara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/japan-day-13-nara\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan, Day 13: Nara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our day trip to Nara was a lot of fun. It was worth going just to feed the deer but we also saw a lot of great art and architecture!<\/p>\n

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Picked up more bus passes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Always on his phone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Still not tired of trains.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Finally found some melon bread.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Nara Tourist Center<\/p>\n

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Stamps are fun!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Taking the bus to Nara Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The bus was very full.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Full bus selfie!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Nara Park<\/b><\/p>\n

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We see deer!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Nara Park<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Karl made a friend.    He just wanted my map… –Karl<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Karl’s new friend ate our map.    SEE!? -Karl<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Karl wrestled with the deer and retrieved half our map but not the part we needed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Just snuggle up on their leg then get the map! It’s delicious!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I can has map?<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Why you no has maps?!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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If you have food they will come.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Most hilarious picture from our trip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Cute resting deer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Great Budda Hall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Lotus Flower Petal Replica<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Architecture Detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Love this dudes belt buckle? detail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photos do not do it justice… It is massive and quite impressive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Love this Nara deer character. Wish I hadn’t talked myself out of buying one.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Packaged sweets are a big thing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I see you!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Buying a Nara Stamp from a gashapon machine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Walked up hill to Nigatsudo temple.<\/p>\n

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Stopped for some shaved ice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Melon shaved ice with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Beautiful view!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\nCame across an excavation site. Neat!<\/p>\n

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Active dig site!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Karl looks so delighted by this white peach ice cream that I now have hiccups from laughing. You’re welcome! –Karl<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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We hopped on a bus to return to the station but got off 10 minutes too soon so we walked the rest of the way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Makes me think of kissing caterpillars.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Train from Nara to Kyoto Station.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Look what we found.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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We like Legos.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Dinner in Porta Mall at this place.<\/p>\n

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Karl’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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The live action Attack on Titan <\/em>movie just came out. We considered going to see it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Oh no!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Kyoto Station<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bus to Gion<\/p>\n

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Karl’s ‘I ain’t eating no red bean Popsicle’ face. It smelled like a frozen burrito. It tasted like one too. (still frozen) –Karl<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Continue Reading: Japan, Day 14: Himeji & Okayama<\/a>
\nJapan Food Journal: Day 13 (Coming Soon!)
\nReturn to Index: 20 Days in Japan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our day trip to Nara was a lot of fun. It was worth going just to feed the deer but we also saw a lot of great art and architecture!         Nara Tourist Center         Nara Park                      Todai-ji Temple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2185,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1848-0.jpg?fit=1616%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-ze","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2184"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5093,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2184\/revisions\/5093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}