World Heritage Land Mark: The Ohtorii Gate (Tuesday 06.07.2010)

Waking early we traveled to see the famous World Heritage Land Mark: The Ohtorii Gate (oo-tore-ee) and it was magical. We climbed Mt. Misen, which was a huge task yet totally rewarding once at the top! Visiting all the shrines along the way such as the eternal flame which is said to have been burning for over 1200 years and was such a special experience, however we were all a little upset about not seeing Baboons!




Heading back quickly to hold the afternoon workshops which went really well. However very late, in the wee hours of the morning, Brian (one of our photographers) admitted that his ankle injury had progressed severely enough to seek medical attention. On the way to the injury clinic at 3am Mio was talking to the lovely taxi driver, who thought Brian must have been a parliamentary dignitary with all of us traveling with him to the hospital - Mio laughed as she translated "he thinks we are accompanying a VIP", to which we replied... he is, he's our photographer :-) This taxi driver was so nice and has been given the nickname JAZZ because on his driver profile the word Jazz was listed as one of his likes... so now JAZZ will be who we call whenever we need a taxi in Hiroshima!