Monday, March 1, 2010

The Japanese version of The Way of St. James: The Kumano Sankeimichi

Hello Ozzies!

More of this experimental crap (which is just an arty and pseudointelectual excuse to hang pictures on the blog without those never ending paragraphs you all detest, including 5 of my 7 personalities). Today, we're cahrging our batteries in a river onsen, then travelling through a UNESCO path to reach the headquarters of the Kumano shinto shrines. Crazy grannies, funny puppets, and loads of walking...and...

Shingu (7a.m)

  




Kawayu Onsen (normally you carve your own bath in the sand of the river, and you set the temperature by mixing river water with termal water)

  

  

On the way to Kumano Sankeimichi (playground of the granny hunters)



  

  

  

  




  

  

  





  





 

Entrance to our first Kumano shrine: Kumano Hongu Taisha




 

  





  




  

  

  

Second Kumano shrine: Kumano Hayatama Taisha

  

  

On the way to the third...

  

  




  

  

The third and last: Kumano Nachi Taisha (the temple worships the kami of the waterfall)







  




 



 







 




 
















I couldn't finish without a small ¨dedicasse¨ to my French friends. You see, French is an international language. You can find it even in Shingu (even if the spelling is not what it used to be, lol)



See you Ozzies!

2 comments:

Cooper said...

Why seven personalities?

GuiGui said...

well...let me discuss with them, see if I can tell you that...Some of them are a bit paranoiac, you know?