Walking around Nagasaki, Part V: The Camphor trees at the Shanno shrine

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My next stop was at the Shanno shrine with the two famous camphor trees. 

From Wikipedia, "Two large camphor trees were scorched, burned and stripped of all leaves by the bomb's shock wave; and yet, despite everything, the trees survived. One tree in Nagasaki was designated a natural monument on February 15, 1969. The dead parts of the living trees have been enveloped by new growth."

I picked up a pebble from here too, and a little of the bark of these remarkably resilient trees