Wanderings

For the past couple of days, I've been wandering around Okayama with the other people in my training group. Yesterday, we walked across the city to visit the castle and the (famous) garden area. The castle was unfortunately closed, but I did see a lot of other intersting things:






<---Here is the castle itself. Impressive, but smaller than I expected.



















<--- This is a view of part of the castle gardens. This is only a small part of a much larger area, all meticulously landscaped. I had the urge to go for a swim...












<---- A bird in a large cage in the gardens. He was a total show-off.