50 Things We’ve Learned in 50 Days

Posted by on Nov 3, 2011 in Travel Volunteer Journey, Wakayama | 5 Comments
50 Things We’ve Learned in 50 Days

Today was unfortunately a bit of a wash out in Wakayama prefecture. The seasonal gloom made pictures pretty hard and created a strangely flat feeling to mark what has been an amazing 50 days so far. So rather than try to scrape butter over too much bread with what happened today, we thought we’d bring ...

You Buddha Believe it

Posted by on Nov 2, 2011 in Travel Volunteer Journey, Wakayama | 2 Comments
You Buddha Believe it

You wait a month for a UNESCO World Heritage site, and then three come along at once, or in the space of a week, at least. Today we were in Koya-san, a holy site for Buddhists of the Shingon sect. A place of worship for over 1200 years, it was founded by the enigmatic Kukai, ...