Mt. Aso,
Our trip was nearing its end only a few more city's to go, but one more spectacle of nature was awaiting for us known as Mount Aso. This mountain was near Beppu as I pointed out Beppu was full of onsen, and places where a lot of natural heated water is one could also figure that volcano's would be abundant. We went up part of the volcano with bus, and walked to the top. The weather was not great so a lot of mist :( but the big clouds of steam could not be missed. This was like a "ultra hell spring"
The volcano could not be enjoyed as much as I anticipated until we walked the entire way down back to our Shinjuku. The grass was supergreen and fast changing landscape as we descended was really nice. Everything was perfect part from a tiny bit of rain and the ROTTEN EGG SMELL, RAaaaaaaaaaaaarh oh my god that was horrible. You could not only smell it but taste it in the back of your mouth :( So for those that want to visit the volcano bring along sweets to get rid of the taste ;).
Well part from the breathtaking scenery not much to talk about. The public onsen was fun because not many non Asian venture there :)
maandag 7 juni 2010
Japan day 18 and 19
From Hiroshima to Beppu,
We arrived at Beppu, the onsen heaven of Japan... or red light district O_o.. more of that later :)
We arrived at our "hotel" near a huge shopping mall. For reference what I mean with huge think of a hypermarche (shopping mall in France) times 5! This building was hard to miss :). Beppu is located near the sea of Japan and so was our hotel, my room had a nice view over the ocean and shore where you could see more of Beppu in the distance.
Since we were tired from the train trip we decided to eat in a restaurant located in the "ultramarket". And my god, the food was superb. I ate a rice dish with meat on top in a round wooden thingy to keep it warm. All the lovely flavours of meat and sauce where mixed with the rice giving it a nice taste to it. Next up was desert, we did not bother trying it at the restaurant since we spotted 3 restaurants back a very good looking ice cream shop. They had the most unreal but still good looking flavour and colour combinations known to man. Think of the planet Jupiter and that's what the ice cream looked like.
After enjoying this meal we retreated to our hotel to take a dip in the onsen at top floor.
The next day we decided to visit some "hell springs", these stinky pits of steam smell like rotten eggs. This has to do with sulphur they emit. At first it looked interesting but really if you see one you have seen them all. So at the end of the day we ate at the same restaurant and the for me the same dish.
Night-time, I was bored and not sleepy enough to go to sleep, so I decided to venture into the city to see what Beppu had to offer. The city was like a erotic transformer... you know robots in disguise, because at daytime there was no obvious way to tell that there were that many "erotic" places. So there I was surrounded by erotic shops bars and stuff I can't really say what it was. I walked a bit around feeling uncomfortable in hope to find a "normal" bar... I almost gave up hope until I approached a Japanese person who led me to a bar occupied by students from all around the world. Here I met Pam and her friends, we had a great time talking and of course drinking biru (beer), well in her case some toxic drink that looked like poison to me :)
We arrived at Beppu, the onsen heaven of Japan... or red light district O_o.. more of that later :)
We arrived at our "hotel" near a huge shopping mall. For reference what I mean with huge think of a hypermarche (shopping mall in France) times 5! This building was hard to miss :). Beppu is located near the sea of Japan and so was our hotel, my room had a nice view over the ocean and shore where you could see more of Beppu in the distance.
Since we were tired from the train trip we decided to eat in a restaurant located in the "ultramarket". And my god, the food was superb. I ate a rice dish with meat on top in a round wooden thingy to keep it warm. All the lovely flavours of meat and sauce where mixed with the rice giving it a nice taste to it. Next up was desert, we did not bother trying it at the restaurant since we spotted 3 restaurants back a very good looking ice cream shop. They had the most unreal but still good looking flavour and colour combinations known to man. Think of the planet Jupiter and that's what the ice cream looked like.
After enjoying this meal we retreated to our hotel to take a dip in the onsen at top floor.
The next day we decided to visit some "hell springs", these stinky pits of steam smell like rotten eggs. This has to do with sulphur they emit. At first it looked interesting but really if you see one you have seen them all. So at the end of the day we ate at the same restaurant and the for me the same dish.
Night-time, I was bored and not sleepy enough to go to sleep, so I decided to venture into the city to see what Beppu had to offer. The city was like a erotic transformer... you know robots in disguise, because at daytime there was no obvious way to tell that there were that many "erotic" places. So there I was surrounded by erotic shops bars and stuff I can't really say what it was. I walked a bit around feeling uncomfortable in hope to find a "normal" bar... I almost gave up hope until I approached a Japanese person who led me to a bar occupied by students from all around the world. Here I met Pam and her friends, we had a great time talking and of course drinking biru (beer), well in her case some toxic drink that looked like poison to me :)
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