Day....8? Kyoto, the land before time.

Wow...i forgot i have not finished this....and its been almost 2 months? I've kinda forgot some things already (>.<)

Anyhoos...Day 8 was a full day of sightseeing Kyoto!
An awesome sleep in this hotel, and I didnt even wake up in the middle of the night. Guess we were too tired after walking in the rain all day.

Nice nice view from above. If you ignore the ugly building rooftops.

Got breakfast at a combini at Kyoto station, and i found THE BEST ONIGIRI. Here it is....its like soy rice instead of the normal white rice. Then half a RUNNY EGG and some mayo i believe. SUPER SHIOK i think if i sell this here it will be hotcakes. Drooling now.

Ok, we took a bus to the first temple of the day: Kiyomizu. Sounds like Cute-water to me.
Highly recommended by one of his Japanese friends. Followed a group of schoolkids on the way up.

As you can see its quite a walk up to the temple. There's 2 prongs to the top, we took the less crowded one. But going down we took the other side. You'll see later.

Hello, Red Wings.

Quaint little shops selling souvenirs, mostly the same stuff.
Here we are, Kiyomizu! And a little-overexcited me.

The climb up here is tough, but it will be all worth it for the view. To us, it was the best temple we've seen the entire day.
If you can go just one, this will be it.

Quite far from the Kyoto Tower, where we stay.
I kind of wanted to write on those wooden panels, but no idea how to go about doing so, everything was in Japanese.

Props to them for translating english properly, unlike this bullshit I saw in Taiwan. Had me in stitches.

I mean...WHHUUUUUUU...?

Tonykakun, lots of school groups here that day too. 

Lo and behold; a breathtaking view. Totally worth the entrance fee. Yes there are entrance fees to most temples here. It was around 3 SGD.

More charm shops. They have some different varieties in different parts of this temple.

Lovey dovey picture with the lovely dovely view.

Ok, afterwards we walked around the place a bit more, saw some turtles and a water fountain. We found that the exit was at a different point, and it led to the main route! So actually, if you came in from the exit, you can get in for free. o_o DAMN.
Well now you know, and i just saved you 3 bucks.

We walked down the more crowded path, with all the souvenir stores and food. And alot of schoolkids. Shucks i sworn i took a photo but it was a video instead. (Couldnt upload the last part because of youtube restrictions)

Ok i cant remember where this place is...but we alighted  from a bus going to another temple.

Will just show you pictures because I cant remember where that was....but we wandered around this part for a long time because we were quite lost. Finally managed to find a bus stop near the zoo, and we took it to our next destination.

On the bus 2 Caucasian girls said to ZH something, and turns out there was a big fat caterpillar on my back!
I was very creeped out. Luckily my boyfriend swept it off me, and it fell on the ground wriggling. He tried to corner it away and protected me from it.
Finally it was our stop and he scooped it up and put it outside. At times like these im glad he's here.

Near lunch time and we decided to get food. Ramen at a store near Ginkakuji Temple.

This store even provided me a hair band to tie my hair back. The ramen was alright to me, though ZH said it wasnt good. We walked to the temple but were turned off by the entrance fee again, so just went back out. We decided that it wasnt a priority temple to see.

Then, the last 2 temples of the day: Kinkakuji & Ryoanji. The ones which we went the day before but was closed.

Stopped by an ice cream shop near the Kinka bus stop.

Strawberry vanilla ice and they had a notebook for guests to write in. Here's ours. Definitely the cutest one!

Kinkakuji is the gold temple. And as expected, many China tourists here. Kind of a waste of money for just this though, but well, its a once in a lifetime thing.

Totally love this shot of mine. Look at the planes and the clouds and the colours!

Next up we walked down to Ryoanji; The Zen Garden. Wanted to experience a traditional Rock Garden.

Really expensive rocks these are. Well, people sit in front of it and ...take pictures. I told Zh what if some crazy person went down there and danced.

"Shhh, im trying to zen here"

Well, afterwards it was near evening. So we decided to go back and enjoy the last few moments of our awesome hotel. We reached this train station but didnt know if our pass allowed us to take it, so asked around.
Then this nice old lady on a bicycle came up to us, guess she could see the lost look on our faces, and asked if we need help. She spoke a little english but understood what we meant. And pointed us to a bus stop. I was like marshmallow and wanted to hug her because japanese people are so nice.... T^T

Back to Kyoto station, and more Combini food. i know we should try some Kyoto cuisine but i dont know whats special here, so we just decided to buy food and eat in our room instead.

Ready to see our bigger than yesterday's food haul? Plus some leftover stuff in the fridge too. And yes, most of these were ZH's.

FEAST! and hung around watching tv surfing internet taking long baths packing our bags...