Omuro pilgrimage
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| Rhod felt the need to purchase some incense, so we headed over to Ninna-ji (his favourite temple). It was not our intention to climb the hills beyond, but as we have visited so many times I wanted to explore the local neighbourhood. A group of small prayer halls jogged my memory and I recalled reading that there was a pilgrimage that mirrored the famous 88 temple-circuit on Shikoku. Because we started the course back-to-front I thought it was going to be far easier than it turned out to be (under the misunderstanding that there were 44 and not 88 halls), but perhaps that is a good thing as it was more of a hike than we had planned for and we might have given up what turned out to be a pretty walk. It was only when we had almost finished that Rhod mentioned he had noticed the halls had numbers, but thought 88 referred to a year and not the building itself. | ||
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