When I travel, I love to observe the details of my surroundings. Back in October, as we were visiting Nara and its many many temples and shrines (and climbing many many steps in the process!), we found ourselves in huge crowds of tourists and school children. Add to this all the deer that are free roaming in the park (you can feed them with deer-crackers but beware, they will most probably head-butt you when you run out of it) and trying to avoid being stung by Japanese giant hornets (they were huge!), it felt a bit overwhelming at first.
As we passed the huge gate leading to the Todai-ji Buddhist temple, I stepped aside for a few minutes to let all the biggest groups of people pass by and breathe for a moment. This is when I noticed someone hidden in the corner of the gate, sitting with pens and paper and ignoring the passing crowds to focus on drawing the giant wood statue standing across. These kinds of moments are why I love to take pauses when I travel and observe the world that surrounds me.
As we passed the huge gate leading to the Todai-ji Buddhist temple, I stepped aside for a few minutes to let all the biggest groups of people pass by and breathe for a moment. This is when I noticed someone hidden in the corner of the gate, sitting with pens and paper and ignoring the passing crowds to focus on drawing the giant wood statue standing across. These kinds of moments are why I love to take pauses when I travel and observe the world that surrounds me.