Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Hakone

So Claudia, Bjoern, two of their colleagues and friends and I went to Hakone for two days. Hakone is a small place near Tokyo, about two hours, 5 trains, a Zick-Zack train and a gondula away.


This is Claudi and me in the gondula going into hell - no literally as you will see in the following pictures!


This is taken from my perspective. I get freaked out if I can't see where I'm going - so I was freaked out (!), plus it smelled really really vile.


And when I saw how deep it was, I got really freakd out! :)


Reason being, we were going over a sulfate field, hence the bad smell and the smoke. It looked amazing though!

So Hakone is one of those hot spring places and generally beautiful. We stayed in a hot spring hotel that was run by the mother of one of Claudia's colleagues, so we got treated especially nice. We went for those hot sulfate baths and had a absolutely amazing meal and occupied the karaoke room almost all night.


Claudi and myself in kimono's... and she is probably going to kill me when she sees me putting this picture up on my blog :)


This is the feast we got. It was so much, so yammy and so amazing. The lady who set it up is in the background tapping sweat from her face. She was really exhausted after she had finished.