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[April 18, 2005] I'm an odd tourist. I go and see the sights, do the touristy stuff, some days. See the historic sights, and the Gorgeousness Of Nature, and all that. And then on other days I wander around and take pictures of all the graffiti I find, or of pretty trees I want to climb, or street signs that interest me, and every so often I check to see if the sky is doing something interesting when it thinks I'm not paying attention. So I think of myself as more of an explorer than a tourist. I like to wander around in cemetaries (because I'm a secretly a little goth girl), and I like to visit playgrounds (because I'm only this many: *holds up three fingers*).
There's this park I always see from the bus. It's got a playground right next to the wall of a cliff, which reminds me intensely of a park from my half-remembered year in Norway at age 6. So today I decided I'd get off the bus and explore it first, before I continued on to temples and shrines.
And it's the COOLEST PARK EVER. Not only is it a park with at "Danger, Falling Rocks" sign next to the playground (that's EXTREME! eXtreme Playgrounds!), it's also got this huge banyan tree up the hill from it.
The treehouse in Swiss Family Robinson was a banyan tree. They're from India, and they have grey bark that looks kind of like cement, and they drop aerial roots from their branches which eventually sink into the ground and become additional roots. So there's parts you can climb, and parts you can hide inside, and 'vines' that are strong enough that you can swing on them, and this tree has them all!
There's another one that's attached to a cliff face, and its roots stretch all the way down the cliff for something like 60 feet.
You can climb straight up the roots. I know, because I tried it did.
[April 18, 2005] I'm an odd tourist. I go and see the sights, do the touristy stuff, some days. See the historic sights, and the Gorgeousness Of Nature, and all that. And then on other days I wander around and take pictures of all the graffiti I find, or of pretty trees I want to climb, or street signs that interest me, and every so often I check to see if the sky is doing something interesting when it thinks I'm not paying attention. So I think of myself as more of an explorer than a tourist. I like to wander around in cemetaries (because I'm a secretly a little goth girl), and I like to visit playgrounds (because I'm only this many: *holds up three fingers*).
There's this park I always see from the bus. It's got a playground right next to the wall of a cliff, which reminds me intensely of a park from my half-remembered year in Norway at age 6. So today I decided I'd get off the bus and explore it first, before I continued on to temples and shrines.
And it's the COOLEST PARK EVER. Not only is it a park with at "Danger, Falling Rocks" sign next to the playground (that's EXTREME! eXtreme Playgrounds!), it's also got this huge banyan tree up the hill from it.
The treehouse in Swiss Family Robinson was a banyan tree. They're from India, and they have grey bark that looks kind of like cement, and they drop aerial roots from their branches which eventually sink into the ground and become additional roots. So there's parts you can climb, and parts you can hide inside, and 'vines' that are strong enough that you can swing on them, and this tree has them all!
There's another one that's attached to a cliff face, and its roots stretch all the way down the cliff for something like 60 feet.
You can climb straight up the roots. I know, because I tried it did.
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