One more post before October ends. I’m still in a bit of a high from my recent trip to Siargao last week, and already I’m missing the sights and sounds (though not the heat) of that beautiful island down south. I’m not quite sure when I’d be able to post about that trip, maybe months down the line, because I swear that list of backlog posts is getting longer whatonearthishappeningi— SO! Here’s another Nara post to tide me over until then.
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If you thought that Nara Park is just “about the deer”, then you’d be wrong. Nara Park is so vast that it practically contains almost all the key places to visit when in Nara for a day. I thought for sure that the extent of the park was the area where most of the deer are roaming and roosting, but I was wrong, because it turns out that it also serves as the location of the Nara National Museum, Todaiji, Kasuga Taisha, and Kofukuji. In my mind, it’s practically a small town. In reality, it’s just a park.

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