First, I want to thank the
people from the shukubo, they organize everything for us, help us
a lot and recommend it to everybody (see page about Shukubo)
So we arrived there by car
drived by one member of the Shukubo, and saw this impressionant
gate just in front of us.
From there we have to walk
or take a small bus to visit a temple, as I said it was impossible
to go upper in the mountain, already closed.
You can see our guide from
the shukubo with the white shirt, I greatly appreciate him.
Also, I have no picture of
the temple so you have to trust my words only. There, understanding
nothing, our guide said to take off the shoes, after a monk put
on our head a stick with some white paper to purify us. And we were
aloud to enter the temple.
It was not exactely a temple,
but a hot spring but very strange. It looks like, sorry but really,
like a nipple out of the soil made by a kind of light brown mud
with hot water spouring out of its top. There without shoes, was
a bit cold, just put our feet inside the hot water and watch this
very strange thing which is a sacred representation of the power
of the nature was really great.
I wish everybody of you can
see that, very impressive. Just after the monkes over there gave
us a cup of sake, and we made our way down again.
A family picture
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