Byoudou in (Phoenix Temple)

This is the 10 en coin....
Actually I went to what you can see in the coin face...

















The phoenix temple (byoudou in) actually the translation of the Japaneses words is equality temple but the most famous building in the temple is the Phoenix Hall which you can see it in the coin.
This temple was originally built in 998 in the Heian period...and the Phoenix Hall, completed in 1053....Yeah too old!

The temple lays on the side of Uji river,which actually was one of the most important places according to its strategic location .
And near the temple lays the city of Genji tale the oldest Japaneses novel,actually there a statue for Genji that you can see just as soon as you cross Uji river.





















Inside the temple the is a museum full of ststues of Budah and two peautiful statues of the phoenix .but unfortunately taking pics inside the museum is forbidden, So this is some pics of the temple from outside and the pic of the phoenix I bought it there....

Osaka !?! OMOROKATTA ^_^

In the last golden week I went to Osaka...
Of course all of you know Osaka...a lot of cool people and the famous oskaben...










I met my Japanese friend "Nobu" there...
He took me to Osaka jo (Osaka castle)
It was big somehow and the park around it was really cool










and there was like a really big rocks in the walls around the castle
he told me that the men works under Toyotomi family try to show there strength by bringing the largest stones....










Then we headed to Osaka aquarium (Kaiikukan)
And of course I saw a lot of things for the first of time in my life
the most famous fish was the whale shark... and yes it's really big...
and a lot of different beautiful jellyfish.

Fushimi Inari Taisha (KYOTO)

Mysterious place...
The shrine sits at the base of a mountain also named Inari, and includes trails up the mountain to many smaller shrines. All the ways up to the mountain lined with thousands of torii (the red gates) with a lot of kanjis that i couldn't read...























and yes it took me and my friend a lot of time to reach the top of the mountain but it worthed to do,there was a lake on the mountain and of course we could see Kyoto city from the summit











and we found our selves here after we got down...and the only thing we said was
(HAAAA!!! KOKO WA DOKO) but luckily we had a map and campus...

Heaven on Earth !?!

This is Kyoto Botanical Garden...
It contain a lot of plants from all around the world...
and ....ok just see the pictures.

Aoi Matsuri

I had a lecture on that day...but of course Aoi Matsuri which is one of the biggest fistivals her in Kyoto is a good reason to escape the lecture >_0
a lot of people wearing traditional clothes walking in Kyoto streets from the imperial palace to Shimogamo jinja and then to Kamigamo jinja .Representing some parts of Genji tale. Which I don't know much about it... but they are doing that since the 7th century...

and this is some Yabusame performance (Shooting arrows while riding horses) in shimogamo shrine.

OHBAKU

Is the place where I live in...
So peaceful...










And this is My room



















And the best Anime character


















And My Cactus tree... JUST To remember the Desert

The BEAUTIFULL KAMOGAWA

Kamogawa (Ducks River) and yes there's a Lot of Ducks in it
Is one of the uncountable number of rivers in Kyoto...
This river runs from the north to the south through the middle of Kyoto and on the sides of this river lays a lot of shops and temples of course in addition to the main stations in Kyoto...
In the evening the sides of the river are full of life...a lot of people gather to listen to some bands playing music or to watch some live performances,specially near Sanjo station...
which is one of my favorite places here in Kyoto...

Nothing compared to ARABIC food....

Well...I didn't eat anything for the first 4 days...
of course no way to compare my mothers food to other...
I really find it hard to eat any other food...specially the Japanese food
which is really deferent than the Arabic food...They don't use spices and if they use it
in very little quantity and in the end it taste like "FISH"
But any way I started to find my own way of eating
and started to make some "JARABIC" food
which is a mix of Japanese and Arabic as you can guess from the name...
and I found a Falafel shop... 4 JD for sandwich T_T
OHHH.... I miss my mother's cooking ...
This is some of my cooking trials...it didn't look that good but it's eatable...