Hiking Yakushima
November 20th 2009 On my search for Princess Mononoke, everyone would tell me about Yakushima, a small island with tall mountains (up to almost 2000m) south of Kyushu. Great virgin forests, some of the oldest cedar trees in japan, great hiking up in the mountains in the mist of last nights rain (just for a change, not cycling 😉! Got lost a a small lonely footpath, and a eventually the whistling a a deer from
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