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Travel Blogs from Takayama
Por los Alpes Japoneses.
... Lo curioso es que los Hombres y las Mujeres tienen sus baños separados y te tienes que bañar como Dios te trajo al mundo, nada de bañadores. Todos juntos como buenos hermanos. El pueblo está bastante bien, conserva unas calles con sus casas tradicionales de madera, con mucho encanto. Algunas de estas casas, son antiguas destilerías de Sake, que todavía funcionan y puedes visitar. Por cierto, hubo que probar la ...
Day 7: Rainy Day in Old Town
... which she found more to her liking. Me on the other hand, felt my hip flexors cramping so ended up pretty much spread eagle with both knees up above the table as if i was ready to give birth on the floor. What an epic fail. When our sushi set lunches arrived, bon settled into the manly seating style pretty well with no intent on attempting to sit on her knees again. For me, I found comfort in the form of the women's seating style of sitting on my knees. Yes bon and ...
Day 6: Takayama - Old Town and Bike Tour
... situation by commenting, "I'm sure this happens all the time. I'm sure other people have wiped out on the tour before". To my fear, Hiso remained silent and politely turned around and smiled and said "no never happen". Wow that did not turn out as planned. Not knowing what else to say I looked at bon and said "at least you're number 1". Time flew by and we were losing sunlight. By 5 o'clock we were back at the office which signalled the end of our fun eye-opening tour. ...
Yosemite of Japan: Kamikochi
Our next destination was Takayama, southwest of Tokyo by a few hours.
We spent our days here in an old guesthouse where the lights went out at 10pm, which meant that we were getting our beauty sleep!
Renting bikes and hiking through the gorgeous Japanese alps was definitely ...
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 ...