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| Monday July
22, 2002 - Anan Trip |
We visited some temples so there's
a lot of pictures of shrines and idols below. Please feel free to pray against
evil spirits and false religions while you view them. There's also a lot
of beautiful scenes of God's magnificent creation, so please feel free to
marvel at those too!
On the train to Anan
Poyao: Hey! I was bored...so i took a picture.
The base of the mountain we will ascend by ropeway.
Poyao: Mountains....Hot.
The pond by the ropeway station.
Poyao: The Japanese are always very good at landscaping... a pretty pond
and trees.
Killer Carps fighting over food.
Poyao: We were feeding them... they're CRAZY!
That's a LOT of carps!
Poyao: Cliff dumped the whole bag of food in... reminds me of mud wrestling.
We're going THERE?!?
Poyao: up up and away!!!! look ma, no strings...
What a beautiful view!
Poyao: Again, my exquisite choice in taking pictures pays off.
Looking straight down from the cable car.
Poyao: This is what the picture would look like if I was about to drop it.
The mountain side.
Poyao: Very tall trees... some almost 50 feet to 100 feet tall.
An even nicer view.
Poyao: Nice picture. Thank you very much.
The other cable car.
Poyao: Noooo! Take me back....
The other mountains.
Poyao: The mountainscape.
Rock formation on our way up.
Wolf statues on the mountain.
Poyao: Why climb up and put statues up there?
Praying man statue (close ups later)
We've arrived!
Poyao: Safe....ground...not moving.....good....
Looks like deforestation (probably not a mudslide)
At the base of the first temple.
Pilgrims conducting ceremonial hand washing and mouth-rinsing before approaching
the temple.
On New Year's, people receive fortunes. If they do not like them, they can
tie them here and leave them behind.
A small shrine.
Katie and Poyao model some beautiful flowers.
Poyao: The ONLY picture i'm in... i think.
Ancestor graves/shrine for worshipping.
Ancestor spirit idols for worshipping.
Poyao: I thought they were pretty funny all dressed up.
Bell to wake up ancestor spirits. Katie, on the other hand, used it to call
the Holy Spirit to scare away all the evil spirits
Katie looks at a small shrine/pond
Poyao: I'm sure one of those signs say no swimming.
We hiked about 1/2 mile to the praying man statue and got a few closer pictures.
View from the praying man.
More of the praying man view.
Poyao: He gets to look at this stuff all day!
I made it to the praying man!
Poyao: Just one tiny step closer to God!
Yes, they made it too!
Poyao: OH no! where's Poyao!
Katie give the praying man a special kiss...
Poyao: hee hee, I told her to do that.
The very steep hill leading to the praying man.
Poyao: Close to a 55 degree incline in some places.
Mountain view on the way back down.
Mountain view on the way back down.
Big view of city on the way down.
Cliff models the one person cars now available in Japan.
Making okonomiyaki, a Japanese "pancake" dinner.
Mmmm, OISHI!!! |
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