Friday, 18 April 2008

The eagle has landed.

Back in Germany!
After nearly one and a half years in Japan I landed safely in Germany!
Strange feelings, feelings of happiness and anger, yeah a complete mix of everything. Well for now I have a lot of stuff to take care of! I'll update soon!

Sunday, 6 April 2008

Reikanji

It`s sakura season in Japan!
I opted to visit a very very beautiful garden called Reikanji, I didn`t know that it will be so beautiful and that it is open only two times a year, during spring and autumn only.
Usually Spring in Japan IS cherry blossoms, but this garden offered far more!! Simply enjoy :)


Wonderful moss, with pink flowers spread over it!



So romantic.. Flowers over the green moss!


What is spring in Japan without the cherry blossom?


Me with my favourite hat!



And two views of the garden! What a great finish :D

Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Koya-San and Facebook

Lately I am tweaking Facebook! Adding productivity apps, tweaking security features and trying to understand what facebook is all about. The terms of use are really, really worrying.. Would love to stick with Mixi, but nobody understands Japanese.
Anyway! Let`s get out the most of this app!!

By the way! I am still in Japan! Here are some nice pictures from Koya-San!
It`s a mountain range near Osaka, where the Shingon sect of Buddhism, one of the first buddhistic sects to enter Japan, has it`s headquarters.



The cable car takes 5 minutes to the top!


A splendid nature! Inside this forest on top of the mountain is the temple complex.


Moss, a stone lantern and a cedar tree, Japan.


These ingravings are not Japanese art, they are mainly present in middle asia, I suspect these were done at a time when Japan had deep contacts with mainland Asia.


I like photography very much! Please enjoy :)