One of the more peculiar temples we went to featured an enormous sitting Buddha. This Buddha was actually the only surviving part of the original temple. Most of the temple…
At the temples, you would find many people searching for fortune and favour. For a small fee, you could get a personalized fortune but they also had many stations where…
There were a lot of temples in Japan. You could not possibly visit them all. Many of them were quite small and we would suddenly come across them as we…
Our time in Jerusalem was so amazing! I can’t wait to tell you all about not only Jerusalem but all of Israel, including our visit to the Dead Sea exploring…
Have you ever traveled to Greece and hiked to the Acropolis or swam in the Dead Sea? Well, it is really cool and I want to tell you all about…
Prayer banners lined many of the paths around the temples. At least I am assuming they are prayer banners seeing as I could not read any of the writing. They…
Cherry blossoms were in full bloom when we were in China and Japan. As it is such a huge event there, it was fun to be a part of this…
Wandering through the markets always led us to interesting places. One of the interesting places it led us to were the vending machines. There were vending machines everywhere and they…
One of our favorite things about Japan was touring the temples. Not only were the temples often surrounded by lots of interesting market stalls, but there were also lots of…
While we enjoyed building our Lego Chinese buildings using the set we picked up in Shanghai, we still enjoyed seeing the real ones! Asia has such beautifully evocative architecture with…