Leaving a cold and wet Adelaide
2024年7月20日, オーストラリア ⋅ 🌬 11 °C
Feeling lucky to be leaving for Japan as scheduled even with the worldwide IT crisis
7 hour stopover KL 😒
2024年7月20日, マレーシア ⋅ ⛅ 27 °C
Tokyo
2024年7月21日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
Arrived at 08:00 this morning to a humid 30° deg start to our adventure. Already not missing the near freezing temperatures at home. We started exploring the areas around our hotel and discoveredもっと詳しく
Tokyo night
2024年7月21日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Tokyo night
2024年7月21日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
A wonderful sashimi meal had on our first night in Tokyo
Tokyo shopping and sightseeing
2024年7月22日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 35 °C
Today was HOT 37°C with a feel like temp of 44°C. We decided to walk after lunch to "Knife St" to select a new hand-made Japanese knife to add to the collection 😀 Then onto the Sky Tree 430mtもっと詳しく
teamLab Planets Tokyo visit
2024年7月23日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 32 °C
Today, we visited teamLab Planets Tokyo, a visual and sensory exhibition, and a visit to central Tokyo
Tokyo to Hakone
2024年7月24日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Today, we travelled from Tokyo to Hakone. We travelled to Lake Ashi via the cable car network over an active volcano releasing sulphur gases. We were unable to see Mt Fuji due to cloud cover
Hakone to Kyoto
2024年7月25日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Today, we travelled from Hakone to Kyoto on the Bullet Train (Shinkansen). After checking in, we started to explore Kyoto.
Lara has some amazing talents. One is to find any form of water to soak inもっと詳しく
Kyoto
2024年7月26日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 35 °C
Today, we visited the To-ji Pagoda. At five stories and 55mt, it is the tallest pagoda in Japan.
The extremely hot weather has been of some blessing as there are very few tourists around during theもっと詳しく
Kyoto day 7 part 2
2024年7月26日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 33 °C
Kyoto
2024年7月27日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 33 °C
We decided on a slower day today, which took in booking all of our train transport for the rest of our holiday. This took well over two hours🤪
In the cool of the late afternoon 34°C we decided toもっと詳しく
Kii-Tanabe
2024年7月28日, 日本 ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Today, we travelled from Kyoto to Kii-Tanabe. From here, we start the Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trail tomorrow morning
The predicted forecast is for 36°C and sunny 🌞
Kumano Kodo - Day 1
2024年7月29日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
Today, we started the Kumano Kodo Trail. It was a tough day of walking with temperatures in the mid-30s and a very steep gradient.
We covered 22km in about 9 hours
Kumano Kodo - Day 1
2024年7月29日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
Kumano Kodo - Day 1
2024年7月29日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 26 °C
Kumano Kodo - Day 2
2024年7月30日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
Today was another long, hot day of hiking. But once again, the scenery was beautiful.
On the last part of the hike, we were lucky enough to see an Asiatic Black Bear. It crossed the trail about 15 mtもっと詳しく
Kumano Kodo - Day 2
2024年7月30日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Kumano Kodo - Day 3
2024年7月31日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
Today was a rest day in Hongu
It was very welcome
We visited the Kumano Hongu Taisha Otorii, the largest torii gates in Japan
From there, we went and received our dual pilgrim certificates at theもっと詳しく
Kumano Kodo - Day 3 Part 2
2024年7月31日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
We walked from Hongu to Yunomine via a mountain pass to our new accommodation at J Hoppers with its own private onsens
We also bathed in the World Heritage listed Tsuboyo Onsen. Recognised as one ofもっと詳しく
Kumano Kodo - Day 3
2024年7月31日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
Kumano Kodo - Day 4
2024年8月1日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Yunomine and Hongu
Kumano Kodo - Day 5
2024年8月2日〜5日, 日本 ⋅ ⛅ 34 °C
Today was our last rest day.
It was spent in onsens and cooling off in the Oto River at Kawayu
Tomorrow, we will set off to complete the last two days of the Kumano Kodo Trail
Kumano Kodo - Day 6
2024年8月3日, 日本 ⋅ 🌙 27 °C
Today we hit the main trail again and gained 612 metres over 12.7km - much easier walking today but still very hot.
Kumano Kodo - Day 7
2024年8月4日, 日本 ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
Our last day on the Kumano Kodo Trail was definitely the hardest.
Once again, high temperatures, humidity, and an elevation gain of 1260mt.
旅行者Blessed by the Travel Gods again🙏
旅行者I wish you both a safe trip and lots of beautiful, unforgettable impressions! 🩷😘
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