We simply picked today’s program from our guidebook… We took the bus to the Monkey park in Arashiyama, a sporty but nice walk in the forest with monkeys at the top. We didn’t see the monkeys until the very top so for a moment it felt like we would be the monkeys there… The kids fed the monkeys from inside a house (a cage, really). The view from there over Kyoto was beautiful.

After a quick lunch, we visited the garden of the Tenryuji temple, where we met the Harper family. Just outside the garden, we took a short walk into the bamboo forest. Very refreshing as the light barely makes it through to the ground level.

Next we took the bus to the Kinkakju-ji, the famous and beautiful Golden temple. It was crowded but it is well organized. Finally we took the bus back to the hotel. Dinner time now!