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		<title>Trekking in the Atlas</title>
		<link>http://www.rubenvicente.com/2013/05/20/trekking-in-the-atlas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 20:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last March/April I did a 10 day trip with my buddy João Almeida to Morocco. We went to Marrakesh, Imlil, Essaouira and back to Marrakesh. As I&#8217;m still going through Marrakesh images my first post will be about Imlil and the Atlas. Imlil is a small village roughly 1700 meters above sea level and pretty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Macaques</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 19:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Making plans for a trip is good to stay relaxed while traveling, but keeping an open mind is very good too. Although we had our stays all booked when we left Lisbon, we didn&#8217;t have a defined plan for each place we were staying. That&#8217;s what happened during our last day in Tokyo. A bit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystic Shirakawa-Go</title>
		<link>http://www.rubenvicente.com/2013/04/15/mystic-shirakawa-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ogimachi village in Shirakawa-Go is a one hour bus distance from Takayama and is part of UNESCO&#8217;s World Heritage Sites. That&#8217;s easy to understand once one reaches the small village decorated by large traditional gassho-zukuri minka houses. These are vernacular houses constructed in a traditional japanese building style. What distinguishes Gassho-zukuri houses from other kinds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Takayama Autumn Colors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I arrive at a place with one or two days booked and it engages me in a way that I really want to stay more time. Other times, often when I have to get everything booked in advance, the place seems much more interesting in guidebooks and photos on the web than what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Koyasan &#8211; Okunoin Graveyard</title>
		<link>http://www.rubenvicente.com/2013/03/14/koyasan-okunoin-graveyard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okunoin is a huge graveyard, more than 2km in length, in a mystical forest and for sure the most sacred place in Koyasan. The graveyard is divided in three parts by a couple of bridges. Two cobblestone paths join in the middle and several walking trails raise towards the hills and huge cedar trees along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buddhist Cerimonies in Koyasan</title>
		<link>http://www.rubenvicente.com/2013/03/05/buddhist-cerimonies-in-koyasan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my trip to Japan I spent a couple of days in Koyasan, a sacred mountain in Wakayama Prefecture where Kobo-Daishi first settled. Kobo-Daishi was a japanese monk, civil servant, scholar, poet, artist, calligrapher and engineer. That is a lot for just one man, and if this was not enough he was also the founder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hidden Gion</title>
		<link>http://www.rubenvicente.com/2013/02/21/hidden-gion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:59:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not another one of those show-off-your-pretty-images kind of post, this is a post about feelings. Yes, I had wonderful moments in Japan photographing lots of different subjects, but nothing touched me more than night photography in Gion, the mythical Kyoto neighborhood where ancient Japan still lives. Unfortunately it doesn&#8217;t live in front of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fushimi Inari</title>
		<link>http://www.rubenvicente.com/2013/02/12/fushimi-inari/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So let me contrast a bit the look of the previous post. Fushimi Inari is an icon in Kyoto, and probably one of the most interesting Shinto shrines I visited and photographed in Japan. The main structure dates from 1499 and is accessible through a double-path of hundreds of Toriis. In ancient times, Inari, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arashiyama</title>
		<link>http://www.rubenvicente.com/2013/01/28/arashiyama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arashiyama was elected by the japanese government as an Historic Site and a Place of Scenic Beauty, meaning that this was indeed a place to visit. The proximity to Kyoto makes it a worthwhile half-day trip. The main attraction in Arashiyama has to be Tenryu-ji Zen Buddhist temple and the adjacent bamboo forest. I must [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kyoto &#8211; Jidai Matsuri</title>
		<link>http://www.rubenvicente.com/2013/01/16/kyoto-jidai-matsuri/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruben Vicente</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jidai Matsuri &#8211; Festival of the Ages is one of the three largest festivals in Kyoto, occurring each year on October 22nd. This was the day that Kyoto was established as the capital of Japan in the year 794. Nonetheless, the festival celebrates the founding of Heian-jingu Shrine, the place where the procession ends after [...]]]></description>
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