Hidden Stones: Ryoanji

Only two more weeks until Christmas!! :) Are you all finished with your holiday shopping yet? I'll admit that I was scrambling a bit to find Christmas presents this past weekend in order to mail them all out this week! But back to today's post ^^

This is a continuation from Kinkakuji and may be the last post from my long day in Kyoto (gotta post some Christmas pictures!). The walk to Ryoanji from Kinkakuji isn't a mere five minute walk, but it's not too long either. It's a rather nice walk along the road and you can see even more trees lining the side in a variety of colors so I enjoyed it ^^

Ryoanji is a Zen temple that also houses Japan's most famous rock garden where fifteen stones are placed inside. However, it is impossible to view all fifteen at once as at least one stone is always hidden from view no matter what angle you look at it. I could only count thirteen or fourteen max!

Heading west from Kinkakuji and followed the golden tree path :)

Heading up the stairs to the entrance of the temple

A much smaller scale of the famous garden that allows you to see all fifteen stones

Followed a path from the temple entrance

Thank you so much for reading and I hope you all have a wonderful week! :)