The Accounts of Chris - Explorer of Nadgee

Picture the seen dear reader, as the light starts to fade I, your humble narrator, was treaking through thick and wild jungle-like terrain. I had been distracted by the increasingly mocking jirations of the orange death dancer (some call it the blahh but pay them no head). This bird taunts it's victim with an intricate bottom waggeling routine which distracts, delays, and assuredly marks a target for death. I had been so marked. The light continued to fall as vines cluched at my feet and at my pack trying to snare me so the voracious black (at night) lyre birds could finish me off. The evening air was suddenly filled by the shrieks of demonicly possessed cockatoos, jouously cakeling at this forlorn traveler. But do not distress yet, my faithfull reader, for I fought on bravely escaping the vines and soon came to a thick grove of spindely doom trees (related to the mallaluca... distantly). A solitary piece of flagging tape had luered me in but now forsake me by offering me a myriad of ways out none more likely than the onther. One path I knew would lead to my salvation the others I can only speculate would lead to certain death. By now night was pressing on the dale and the day birds dire calls abated - but now I herd the haunting cry of a ninja owl (I could not see them, I could not see ninjas... ergo).
At this point you dear reader may be expecting that I could do naught but break down and sucumb to the horrorrs of the night. Horrors rich and varried that I shall not now recount least it afright your sole and you, dear reader, can venture forth in darness no more. But your faithful hero/protagonist bravley followed his course by dead reckoning and the glow of his gps (should I have mentioned this before? Seems unimportant). Just when all seemed lost a gap in the trees widened to reveal a path hidden behind. Glory be, this was one traveler the nightglade would not devour! I lept with alacrity to the safety of the firetrail with only moments (about 30) to lose before the sun set and hope would surely have been lost.

Also I saw all the birds and plants and beaches and stuff... and it was awesome.

 

The end.

Takayama to Kyoto - 1 million temples and counting

There are a lot of temples shrines gardens and castles on offer in japan. Undoubtedly Kyoto has some of the best. These offer a deeper understanding of traditional japan an offer a rich contrast to the new japan of Tokyo and other big cities.