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Travel Blogs from Takayama
Por los Alpes Japoneses.
Desde Hiroshima pusimos al rumbo norte. Hemos estado un par de días, entre Kanazawa y Takayama, la costa oeste y la zona centro, los Alpes Japoneses. En Kanazawa tuvimos la suerte de conocer a un grupo de Japoneses, que nos recibieron con una cena de bienvenida, totalmente inesperada y que resultó inolvidable. A la casa donde estábamos iba llegando gente, con comida y bebida, que resulta que venían a conocer a guiris. Y todos ...
Day 7: Rainy Day in Old Town
... a seat by the gigantic hearth and sipped away. Bon wasn't as fascinated with the brew and just tried a tasty black curry bun and I did plenty fine with just sake alone. Who needs the sun when you got fresh sake....so good. We wandered through the morning markets and museums of Old Town in the discomfort of the rain. Every time we wanted to stop we would discover a food stand with a local speciality. The snacking kept us going but when our toes got soaked and frozen we had ...
Day 6: Takayama - Old Town and Bike Tour
... fury, he re-calibrated and I took one in the ass. This continued for the next little while. No idea where all his energy or snow was coming from but luckily we finally reached his home and with one last scream he set us free and ran into his house. We quickly biked away in fear that he just ran in to grab real weapons and would return to continue his onslaught. At one point I was going to dismount and return fire but Bon did not feel like it was appropriate seeing I'm a grown ...
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
... somewhere as expensive as Japan, being able to get a full free meal each day out of it is truly amazing!
There were stalls selling tasty rice balls on sticks. And stalls selling all sorts of other food I’d not before tried. The excited man in the photo sold me square marshmallows.
And then there was the friendly lady who alternated having licks of her ice cream with her ...