Kamikochi

As the title suggests, I really shouldn't have gone to Kamikochi today. It didn't bode well from the start--I forgot my maps and guides and the driver was particularly worried about me and lack of clothes, as it was SNOWING up in Kamikochi. Which I ...

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... there must be at least a dozen sets of roadworks in progress today. The bus ride (and the road) end at a place called Kamikochi - a very crowded tourist resort with a couple of large hotels and a huge coach park. Large numbers of people are ambling along ...

... so much of New Zealand, dramatic rolling snow capped mountains, eagles circlingin the sky and big drops into canyons below. Kamikochi is the main tourist centre of the Japanese Alps and because again of golden week here...the national holiday the ...