Nara

If Kyoto is perfect, then Nara is ...perfect as well. Immaculately manicured and so much a picture that it is inundated with Japanese amateur artists, all trying to capture that picture perfect instant. Artists with their easels and photographers with their stuff, all waiting for the light to be...perfect.

Meanwhile, back on planet earth, the real Japanese are enjoying "flower viewing", exploring the sensuality of the spring cherry blossom, whilst, perhaps most importantly, getting utterly pissed. Of course it has its major tourist attractions, in this case the largest timber building...similar claim made by many others...I guess it just depends how many caveats. Anyway, regardless of superlatives, a fantastic building, made all the more surreal by the ladies kneeling in rows on the immaculate lawns, all clipping the grass perfectly with their perfect scissors.

And then the gardens! It is almost as if they set it all up for tourists, but the quite unbelievably perfect gardens are being visited by equally perfect, inscrutable, kimono clad ladies taking tea in the small pavilions.

Oh no, not perfect babies and mothers as well...