Somchai is certainly getting his money's worth out of this temple, moving from risking his life drinking unknown fluids, to tempting death by pecking. As you can see by the top left picture, it looks a bit touch and go there for a while, but, as in the drinking incident, he survives.

This temple is the second largest wooden structure in Japan. By a strange coincidence, we're now leaving Kyoto by train to nearby Nara, to see the country's largest.

Woke up very hungry after our micro-banquet the night before, and probably finished off a big bowl of salad for breakfast to fortify myself for our last Kyoto temple, Higashi-Hongan-ji. We stay in Kyoto a few more days but do day trips outside of Kyoto, so we stopped by this temple on the way to the train station. Somewhat bravely I must say, Somchai decides to take a drink from the liquid pouring out of the old dragon's mouth. I'm not sure what the sign next to him is saying. It looks like it's saying this is not a faucet, but that's obvious, so my best guess is it's saying DO NOT DRINK.