So here are a couple more pictures from Kamikochi (上高地). The Kanji means 'upper highlands', the area is a 15km plateau in the Japanese Alps. I camped here in early May with a bunch of friends from Matsumoto.
This place is seriously amazing! It's so nice, surrounded by mountains with a river running through the middle and forest on either side and wild monkeys everywhere.
It was sub zero over night, impossible to sleep. Funny thing is we found out everyone was actually awake through the night but it was too freezing to pop your head out of the sleeping bag to talk. So for a good few hours we lay in silence and everyone thought everyone else was asleep lol!
This photo was taken at about 4-5am. Freezing temps and sunlight coming through so early meant minimal sleep. The first day was overcast, so we were all excited to see the sun, but after the sun rose, all of a sudden the weather changed dramatically. It became cloudy, the winds picked up and we got dumped with snow. Had to fight through the snow and build a fire for warmth. Most difficult fire to build when your getting owned by snow and strong winds. haha good times.
Kappabashi (Kappa-mythical Japanese creature that is green, has webbed feet and a beak and a disc on its head and eats cucumbers. Hashi- bridge. Hashi becomes -bashi when added with a name.)
Steps of Kappabashi.
Hoping to head back there next month now that it's summer!
P.S I uploaded more happy snaps from Kamikochi on Facebook if you want to have a lookie.
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Beautiful... thanks for sharing the sights with us =)
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