Nagasaki

So we headed down to Nagasaki for a couple of nights. Checked out the usual sites like the Atomic Bomb Museum, the Peace Park and the Hypocentre. As Nagasaki was a port city and did a lot of trade with Europeans this is the point where Christianity first entered Japan. This is the Urakami cathedral and was the largest cathedral in the Orient at the time. It took almost 30 years to build and was flatted in a few seconds when the bomb exploded over Nagasaki. It was rebuilt 14 years later.

This is the hypocentre. The black marker indicates where the bomb exploded over Nagasaki.

There are thousands of paper cranes around the hypocentre and filling the peace park and the museum. We also saw messages on the pebbles around one of the monuments.


The next day we made it out to the Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium. I'll post some pics of the actual penguins on Flickr. It was SO hot that day and you can see some people having a dip in the ocean behind Nathanael.

At night we had a wander through the many alleyways of Nagasaki and had a great and super cheap Japanese curry. Also observed the production of a "Cheese Curry". It's basically curry sauce with melted cheese over the top. Weird you say? Yes, we think so too, but when i questioned my Japanese friends about this, they couldn't understand what the problem was. haha

This is Nate's special curry - Pork Cutlet, Prawns and Chicken - All deep fried!

Before heading off we also checked out Dejima which is a reconstruction of Dejima Island that was an artificial island built for Dutch Merchants in the 1634. They have done a great job in reconstructing the buildings. It was a really interesting little town and we just wished we had more time to look around the exhibits.

Here's me with the model replica of the town.

And last but not least, this is Nagasaki's best kept secret. The most awesome flying fox in the world! So much fun!