"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to SAN-NEN ZAKA.
Nothing is real and nothing to get hung about.
SAN-NEN ZAKA forever."
San-Nen Zaka, (3 years Walk) in Kyoto, Japan,
we take you on our tour down the old rickety preserved pathway
from Kiyomizu Temple
serene, green and very very clean!
So, after caffinating ourselves up to the max (from a large soup bowl) we were ready!
And giddy!
Georgie wears coat by Alexander McQueen, vintage shirt from Berlin market,
scarf by Jeremy Scott couture
The pathway is preserved by the Government so all the architecture is untouched,
it is so quiet that you can practically hear the incontinence bags filling
(San-nen zaka is mainly old people)
Each side of the walk down is littered (see what we did there?!)
with stalls selling wierd and wonderful things
Like a gay parade, but much prettier
OH MY GOURD!
After stopping for bites to munch on - Kuro Mochi and Beef balls (oishii)
and combing our hair
and looking at overpriced cool stuff
and seeing cool old men
We reached the bottom. It didnt take 3 years, but boy were we tired.
We saw, from a distance, what appeared to be our first sightings of GEISHA!
However, as we got closer and saw tourists lining up to have their photos taken,
We noticed that these were very shoddy Geisha. Very shoddy indeed.
Look at that wig! its not even a colour match!
Pantone much????
As we continued on, further down towards the end we noticed a "Geisha School"
for tourists, to pay to be made up (badly) and to then go off into the wild, to fool tourists.
Baka no Gaijin!!
After all this visual banquet, we decided we needed a real banquet.
A liquid banquet.
We stopped in the "Royal Oriental Gardens", for champers and cassis sorbet / tiramisu.
A REAL winter warmer!
And so concludes our walk.
We hope you liked it. If you are ever in Kyoto, go there, it is beautiful!
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