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  • Who is the Travel Oracle?
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  • Who is the Travel Oracle?
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  • Woman standing in the middle of the little stone monk statues. She is hunched down, smiling and holding an umbrella

    A Rainy Walk in the Kimono and Bamboo Forests

    Kyoto, Miyajima and Hiroshima were some of THE MOST picturesque places we’d ever seen. But the universe was like, “Hold my beer”. Wait until you see the day we went on a rainy walk in the Kimono and Bamboo Forests. Oh and these two places weren’t even the best part. We spent the afternoon with probably a thousand stone mini-monks. Grab a cup of cozy and join us for the last leg of our Kyoto adventure. The Glorious Beginning Like every morning, the breakfast provided by our hotel, the Sotetsu Fresa Inn, was OUTSTANDING. I didn’t know how I would feel about salad and fish for the first meal of…

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