Today our plan was to take a 2 hour boat ride down a mountain river in the Arashiyama Mountains.  Unfortunately, after we took a long train ride to the country, the river rides were cancelled because of the increasing water flow from the recent rains.  We should have known – Arashiyama means “storm mountains”.  DANG!!!

We toured the nearby bamboo forest walk (once you see one bamboo tree, you have seen them all) then went to the Monkey Park.  It was questionable in the beginning but the native monkeys were cute once you hiked up a mountain.  It was nice that they had free roam of the mountain, sad that they begged for food.  The hike was good exercise.

Tomorrow we head to Hiroshima and Miyajima for the day.