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Mt. Fuji
... a map from tourist information, in the mood for walking we walked around one of the bigger lakes at the bottom of Mt Fuji and up towards the mountain itself. We were both surprised that the area was like a little town, we thought we'd be walking on mud tracks but if we weren't on the public footpath we were on the road. We stopped for our packed lunch (yes, we really were like serious ramblers for the day) overlooking the ...
My longest blog in ths trip so far
This is the longest blog so far in this trip, cause a lot of time spent on trains
Took JR, train and train again to get to Fuji train station, total of about 2 something hours.
I have to make a comment, the worst washroom I went to China was still better than the one in Fuji train station :(
I forgot to chk the weather for Fuji, the weather at the Mt is 10 degree lower than the station. It was cold in the station, probably mid teens ...
Mt Fuji Trip Report
This was a tough climb. I wasn’t expecting it to go on for so long. I knew it was a mountain, but it was colder and steeper than expected. We had a group of 44, only myself and one other guy were foreigners. There was a very enthusiastic guide who kept us all together very well and seemed very authoritative and experienced despite my not understanding anything he said. There was also a helper who stayed at the back of ...
Higher than mountains....
... shop later we ran back to the bus and got ready to head back down the mountain toward the hotel were were going to have lunch at, well lunch being at gone 3 at this point. Again Tadeshi san apologised for the delay and explained it was to do with the workers there that didn't.know what they were doing. We got to the hotel, The Highland Resort and Onsen, another half hour later and had about 45 mins to eat before the coach would pick us up again to take us onward. ...
Tackling Mt Fuji
... and that very morning I had lost my breath crossing the bridge at my local station.
On a diet of alcohol, noodles, and rice my body had become a jellified mass of blubber and bone; how I was going to roll this lard bucket the wrong way up the mountain was beyond my imagination.
It is said a fool never climbs Mt. Fuji but only a real fool climbs it twice. My group leader had climbed the mountain a grand total of 47 times. Going on that ancient ...
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