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Travel Blogs from Takayama
Por los Alpes Japoneses.
... de la mesa, eso sí, en el suelo. Yo ya no sabía como ponerme. Pero a pesar de esa pequeña incomodidad estuvo genial. De las conversaciones ya ni hablo, os podéis imaginar, salvo dos personas, los demás de ingles nada. Y por si eso fue poco, a la mañana siguiente, Motoko y un ¨Julián¨ auténtico, nos acompañaron a visitar la ciudad. Es sorprendente y a la vez reconfortante, que gente que ...
Day 7: Rainy Day in Old Town
... leave me alone so I can start eating. Boy did he prove me wrong. The chef passionately explained the 3 ways to eat tempura to us. First just dipping a sweetened soy sauce which is the only way we do it. Second is dipping the tempura in salt. Third is with a salt and curry powder mix. Which dip to use is determined by the type of tempura which the chef told us his recommendation for each piece. Although everything was fried, it did not feel heavy at all. Not sure how he did it ...
Day 6: Takayama - Old Town and Bike Tour
Alright almost at Takayama. Holy **** there's so much snow on the ground. O Oh, we might be in trouble, this is something we were not expecting and are definitely not packed for. Should be interesting...stay tuned. So we're back in our hotel now and just lounging around after our beautiful first day in Takayama. When we first got off the train and saw the snow on the ground, we grabbed each others hands and traded looks of fear and disappointment. But it turned out to be a ...
Yosemite of Japan: Kamikochi
... the highlights of Japan. We hiked to the top of a mountain range where we hiked down into the valley of Kamikochi, the forest that is compared to Yosemite National Park in California.
Gorgeous scenery and fall colours definitely takes you away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo.
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Temples, Markets and Food Sampling
... temple also had a graveyard close by. Almost all of the graves and grave stones were grey, often accompanied by long flat sticks made of stone with Japanese writing on them.
It seems that people take flowers up to the graves very frequently. Whenever I saw a graveyard there were always visitors and almost no grave was left without fresh flowers on it.
In between all the ...
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