After you leave the castle go to the Kokiri Forest 
Navigate through lost woods 
First go right 
Then left 
Then right 
Then left 
Then straight 
Then left 
Then a final right
Battle wolves for purple rupee 
Talk to Saria and learn her Song 
Go back to Kakariko Village

Forest Temple:

First thing to do, is in the very first room, the entryway with 
the trees and the wolves, is climb up the vines on the right wall 
and then jump from tree to tree to get the small chest up on the 
left wall containing a small key. Now enter the temple. Kill the 
giant Skulltula in this hallway (it only takes 1 regular hit now 
with Adult Link's more powerful Master Sword) and enter the Big 
Room. You'll see some ghosts making off with some torch flames. 
Now go straight forward and enter the door up the stairs on the 
other side. They'll be a blue flaming skull here. Z target it 
and use your shield (R button) until it runs into your shield. 
That will get rid of it's blue flame. Then just take it out with 
your sword. Go through the next room and you'll be in the Lower 
Stalfos room. It's a large round room that contains two of the 
toughest enemies you've yet faced, the skeletal Stalfos. Using a 
combination of Z targeting, effective use of your shield, side 
jumps, and backflips, and some good ol' slashes and jump slashes 
you should be able to take them out with a bit of practice. 
Remember that you can't block their jump attack so if they do one, 
backflip (back+A) to avoid it then counterstrike. One good thing 
is that for the most part the one you aren't focused on leaves you 
alone. Once these guys are toast, you'll be rewarded with a 
second small key. Kill the pots in the room and one should 
contain a life-giving faerie.

Now return to the Big Room. Go to your right to a small corridor 
with a blue block in it. Play the Song of Time to get rid of the 
block and go through. This room, the West Plant Room, contains 
some man eating plants that are much tougher than previous ones. 
Make your way to the vine-covered wall to your right. Kill 
whatever skulltulas you can reach with your hookshot and climb up 
the right side of the vines...you'll have to make you way up 
slowly and try to avoid the skulltula that is left. Remember that 
if it doesn't see you it can't get you. If you have to, when it 
comes at you push A to drop down and then grab back on and try 
again. Once you make it into the alcove with the doorway go in 
the door and kill the annoying blue flaming skull. You'll be 
rewarded with the dungeon map. Go through the next door and 
you'll find yourself on a balcony. Notice that the balcony next 
to you has a gray circle icon above the doorway. Use your 
hookshot and shoot that gray icon thing to fly over to the other 
balcony. Step on the switch in there then kill the skulltula with 
your hookshot and use the vines to climb down. Make your way to 
the well you saw get drained and climb down it. Run down this 
corridor to the other side and open the chest there to get your 
third small key.

Now climb up the vines and you'll be back in the West Plant Room. 
Go out the door you came in and you'll find yourself back in the 
Big Room. Go through the locked door to your right. Kill the 
skulltula and go through the door in the small hallway. In the 
next room, which I refer to as the block puzzle room, climb up the 
two ladders and then follow the yellow arrows on the floor to walk 
around until you hit the back of the blue movable block. Push it 
until it's even with the hallway going the other way, then back up 
and go up the ladder you passed while pushing it. Up here go 
around until you meet a second movable block. Push this one until 
it stops moving, then go back, take a left, and fall off the ledge 
to fall back down to where the first block was. When you bump 
into it push it as far as it will go, then loop around to the 
other side of it and push it as far as it will go again. It will 
fall down slightly and you'll get that tone telling you solved a 
secret. Now climb up the block and then climb up the wall next to 
it and you'll bump into the second block again...push this one as 
far as it will go then climb it and the wall behind it. Follow 
the passageway around to a ladder and climb up it, then keep going 
and you'll see a locked door. Go through and you'll find yourself 
in the West Twisted Hallway.

Follow the twisted hallway until you reach the West Twisted Room. 
Watch out for hands falling from the ceiling and hop across the 
stones to another locked door. Go through it and you'll be in the 
west stairway. Climb down the stairs and enter the Upper Stalfos 
Room. You've got a tough battle here. Kill the first Stalfos 
while avoid the pit and then two more will come after you. Unlike 
the previous two, with these two if you kill one and take too long 
killing the other, the first one will come back! Don't panic, 
keep your head, and I hope you put some faeries in your bottles 
from the forest meadow maze earlier! The reward for this tough 
battle is the awesome Bow. Now take your new bow and go BACK 
(yes, back, not forward) to the stairway you entered from. You 
should have seen a red ghost laughing at you right? Well, as soon 
as you got close she disappeared. This time shoot her with your 
arrow before you get close enough to make her disappear. If you 
get her in all three pictures she'll fight you. She's just like 
the composer brothers in the graveyard. Just keep blocking her 
attack until she appears and then letter have it with a jump 
slash. When she's dead you'll have recovered the first flame from 
the Poe Sisters and you'll be rewarded with a small key.

Now go back into the Upper Stalfos Room and go out the other door. 
Here you'll face the blue Poe Sister. Deal with her the same as 
the red one and get the compass as reward. You need another key 
before you can go on, so go BACK again through the Upper Stalfos 
Room, past the West Stairway, back through the West Twisted Room 
and West Twisted Hallway and finally you'll find yourself back at 
the end of the block puzzle room. Above the doorway to the West 
Twisted Hallway is a gray eye. Shoot it with your arrow and the 
hallway will straighten. Now go through the hall way to the 
Twisted Room and you'll be at a different angle now. This time, 
drop to the floor and open the gold chest to get the Boss key, 
then drop down the hole in the floor. Kill the flaming blue 
skulls in this room and go out the door. Now you're on the 
balcony of the West Plant Room. Walk along the balcony and enter 
the door on your right to get to a room with a very tough Living 
Hand monster. Remember to kill all it's parts quickly when it 
splits or it will join back together. You'll get the second small 
key you need.

Go out the door, take a right and go through that door. You're 
back in the block puzzle room. Make your way up to the door to 
the West Twisted Hallway and shoot the gray eye again to turn it 
back into a twisted hallway. Go through the Hallway, the Twisted 
Room, the West Stairway, the Upper Stalfos Room, and finally the 
East Stairway ending with a locked door. Go through this locked 
door and you're in the East Twisted Room. Hang a right and you'll 
be in the East Twisted Hallway (which is currently straight). 
Kill these Green Flaming Skulls the same as the blue ones - Z 
Target and hold down R and walk into them, then kill with sword. 
They're easier then the blue ones. Go through the locked door at 
the end of the hallway and you'll be in a rotating blocks room. 
Jump on one of the blocks and aim your arrow toward the frozen eye 
that's on one wall. Wait until the torch in the middle of the 
room is between you and they eye and then fire your arrow. The 
arrow will fly through the torch's flame, light on fire, then hit 
the eye, melt the ice, and activate the eye (cool, ain't it?). 
Believe it or not since Adult Link doesn't get to use Deku Sticks 
you'll have to light torches and stuff using this method instead. 
Kind of tricky but cool nonetheless.

Now the Hallway will be twisted so go back through it. Fall down 
the hole in the bottom of the Twisted Room and you'll be in the 
falling ceiling room. To your right is a small hall and door that 
leads to the balcony of the East Plant Room. Don't bother the 
only thing there is a small chest containing a heart. Instead, 
wait until the ceiling falls and as it's rising again run to the 
small yellow switch along the right wall. Stand on it and stay on 
it until the ceiling falls and you won't get hurt. Then run to 
the square just left of the small treasure chest when the ceiling 
rises again. Get the treasure (some arrows) and wait for the 
ceiling to fall. Then run through the door to the picture puzzle 
room. Shoot the picture on the wall with an arrow to get the 
puzzle going. You then have to push blocks around until they 
match the picture on the wall (look at the top of the blocks and 
ignore the pictures on their sides). One of the blocks is a 
nonsense block and is just there to confuse you. If you don't 
make it in time the blocks will rotate to a new configuration and 
you'll be given a bit more time. Keep trying, eventually it 
should give you enough time to do it. Once you get the picture 
you'll have to fight the green Poe Sister. Knock her around to 
get back the green flame and then go through the door. Kill the 
skulltula and go through the next door and you're back in the Big 
Room. 

Jump over the fence and fight the final Poe Sister. She'll split 
up into 4 ghosts. Watch carefully, after they split, one of them 
will do a quick 360 spin and the others won't. The one that spins 
is the real one. Shoot her with an arrow using Z targeting. Once 
she's dead the tile in the middle of the floor will become an 
elevator. Ride it down to the Revolving Room. This one took me a 
while to figure out. Stand at the right of one of the rig rock 
platforms sticking out of the wall and push A to grab it, then 
push. After a while of pushing the room will rotate. Go through 
any opening and step on switches, get treasures, and kill monsters 
until finally the room rotates around to the now opened hallway 
leading to the Boss Room (remember to keep rotating it the same 
way by always standing to the right of the block when pushing). 
Now go through the Boss door and climb the stairs, then walk over 
the Triforce symbol and then try to go back out. Your way will be 
blocked and you'll now be facing...

Forest Temple Boss: Phantom Gannon

Phantom Gannon has two phases. In the first phase, he rides into 
a picture and then two of him rides back. One of them is fake. 
You can tell which one is fake because the fake one rides slightly 
to the left of the path in the picture, and the real one rides 
slightly to the right. Stand in the middle of the room with an 
arrow ready to fire and rotate around scanning the pictures. When 
one of the pictures has Phantom start coming back out of the 
picture (a bunch of purple light will appear) fire an arrow at him 
right away. If you hit him he'll retreat and you can do it again. 
If you miss he'll zap you for a big time hurt. After you've done 
this 3 times he'll lose the horse and start flying around the room 
shooting bolts at you. You'll quickly notice that you can block 
the bolts but you can't seem to hurt him at all. If you've played 
A Link to the Past, remember the evil wizard Aghanihm? Well, next 
time Phantom Gannon shoots a bolt at you, hit it with your sword 
to shoot it back at him. HOWEVER, watch out as he might hit it 
back at you again! So be ready to hit it again if it comes flying 
back to you. Sometimes you'll hit it back and forth like 10 times 
before it finally gets him. The more times it bounces back and 
forth the more it hurt too. When it does hit him he'll fall to 
the ground. Take this opportunity to give it to him with a jump 
slash from your sword. Then he'll fly back up again. The more 
times the bolt bounced before hitting him the longer he'll be on 
the ground. Keep doing this until he dies. Sometimes when he's 
almost dead he'll fly toward you with a super powerful spear stab. 
Try to dodge it if you can, you can't block it. Also, remember to 
stay far away from him when he's firing bolts because it will make 
it easier to hit them back at him. Once he's dead you'll get a 
message from the real Gannondorf. Grab your heart container and 
get out of the temple via the blue light.

Lost Woods:

Once in Kokiri Forest, climb up the vines behind Mido's house and 
go through the hollow log to get to the Lost Woods. In the lost 
woods, follow the sound of the music (wherever it is loudest) to 
get to the sacred forest meadow. For lazy people, the directions 
are R,L,R,L,F,L,R. Then kill the wolf, enter the gate, navigate 
the maze, and go up the steps to get to the Meadow. Talk to Saria 
to learn Saria's Song. Now head back out of the woods and leave 
Kokiri Forest. Head to Kakariko Village now.