Arashiyama at night

Trip Start Aug 20, 2008
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Trip End Aug 01, 2009


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Friday, December 12, 2008

Our favorite Australian couple, Allie and Ross found yet another cool night time viewing of lights for the holiday season. This time it was back to Arashiyama where they light up a 5 kilometer pathway through the village with paper laterns, spotlights, and other cool lighting styles. By far my most favorite sight was the bamboo forrest with the spotlights of different colors shining from the ground up. It turned the leaves and the bamboo shoots different colors. We actually are planning on going back sometime before Christmas because we were not able to see everything before the lights get turned off. Oh, and a word about the lights being turned off....It is advertised that the lights are on until 8:30. So, we were all in the bamboo forrest at 8:30 when all of a sudden ALL of the lights were turned off. Of course all the Japanese women screamed because they got startled. We just couldn't believe that they were not concerned with all of the people now in the pitch dark in the middle of a bamboo forrest!! Luckily we were not afraid of the dark so we were able to find our way out. We finished off the night with some yummy hash brown type things and then headed back to good old Juso. 
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