Sunday hike

Sunday Ian and I went out for a hike and walked 18 kms. Toward the end we stopped at a Shinto Shrine, Yasaka Jinja. Behind me in the picture you can see a diagonal red line. That is the beginning to the 90-step stairway that leads up to the shrine. Most shrines and Buddhist temples are located on the tops of hills. I believe that this is both for isolation and to insure that they do not occupy useful land, particularly any place that can be used to grow rice.

I am wearing my Gore-Tex rain suit so it looks okay, but my usual baggy clothes are underneath and came out again as soon as it stopped raining.