March 26-30: Kyushu road trip!

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May 31st 2008

Published: May 31st 2008

These pics are old...from our trip over spring break to Kyushu. Japanese Vocabulary rotemburo: outdoor onsen hotspring jigoku: natural hotspring...not the type you bathe in, the type you watch boil and steam minshuku: japanese bed and breakfast place caldera: not Japanese vocab, but just general vocab, it's bowl shaped volcanic formation, caused after an eruption empties out the magma chambe... Read Full Entry

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a red "hell" onsen

water lily

an onsen for soaking your feet

named for it's red waters

plants

LUNCH

We had a great lunch at this place, Ichinoide no Kaikan. With your homemade lunch meal, you get to soak in the rotemburo while it's being made.

mmmmmmmm

It was a great lunch! The noodles in the soup were homemade and the broth had a nice hint of lemon.

steep car ride

the only thing was the place was up on a STEEP hill with narrow roads...it was scaaaaaaaary!

Usuki

buddha statues carved into the mountainside

more buddha statues

some of them were really big

more buddhas

hiking

You could take a path through the mountains and ravine in Usuki to view all the different carved buddhas

rainy rainy

we went on a longer hike

in search of another buddha...

but...

this is all it turned out to be

the group

decapitation

1st June 2008

Alan Fung-Schwarz
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wow
How wonderfully intimate! :)

2nd June 2008

Zach
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Love the engrish - We produce what you crying for! Great pictures of Aso-san! Looking at these now makes me remember how fun it was driving up through the mountain and stopping near the top freezing just to take photos of us in ridiculous jumping positions. Oh it was so much fun! Here's to more future road trips!

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