Hey Everyone,
The next few posts will be about my holiday to Nikko just after Christmas. On the 26th of December me and my family went to a town/region area called Nikko. Nikko is about and hour or so north of Tokyo. Nikko is kind of a group of towns and villages in the same area. Parts of Nikko are listed as world heritage sites especially the Temples and Shrines in the area. We stayed at the Zen Hostel a few stops away on the train from the 'Main Part' of Nikko. On the day we arrived we didn't do much but look around the area near the station. We had to go back a few stations to get picked up by our host. We drove to the hostel and were shown to our room. Our room was a traditional Japanese room with Shoji (sho-ji) which are sliding doors made from paper and wood. The floor was covered in Tatami (Ta-ta-me) mats which are made out of rice straw wooven many times. I personally love tatami mats but we can't get them easily in Australia. The room didn't have any beds but we slept in Futon (foo-ton) mats which are, suprisingly, very comfortable. The next day we went to the mountainy bit of Nikko and it was super cold. We had snow blowing of the mountain which made it more cold. On the bus ride to the top of the mountain the on the bus ride back we passed Lake Chizenji (Chee-zen-gee) and it was frozen. We stopped half way to have lunch. Lunch was really nice and the people who ran the resturanut were glad the my dad can speak pretty good Japanese (My mum can too, but my dad was the one who ordered). After lunch we went to Kegon falls which were partly frozen. When we were trying to walk down the path to get to the Ticket office we kept slipping but we didn't fall (thank God). Kegon falls was really pretty (and COLD!!).
That's all for the first 2 days. Sayonara,
Chloe.
I'll be including Photos in Part 2.
Can your dad order in a Chinese-French-Veitnamese-Kelpie restaurant? He would have to say snag chow a le vin binh au woof woof, and if it was also German he would have to add "Woof achtung!" I am glad you have been having so many expeiriences and seeing so many sights. The sight I am looking forward to is seeing you all come home. Love Scoop
ReplyDeletei'm looking forward to seeing your photos Chloe. How was the visit from Emily and her sister? I want to hear what parts of tokyo you thought were the best bits to share with them.
ReplyDeleteall good here, Ava started childcare this week! She's getting old, which means i must go back to work....!
Your Zen hostel sounds wonderful. What a great experience to have. Does it help you to comprehend traditional Japanese culture better and how things used to be all over Japan in the past. Nikko sounds beautiful. I wpuld love to go. I didn't understand about world heritage sites until I went to Bordeaux in France and I was blown away. I'm sure Nikko would be completely different but just as fantastic.
ReplyDeleteI'm really looking forward to your pictures. I learned a lot extra from reading your blog. It's interesting how two (or four) people can go to the same thing and all remember different things to tell others who weren't there. It will be great to sit down and talk to you and ask lots of questions. I hope you are not dreading that. You will just have to tell me to stop if it is too much!!!
Love, Grandma Colleen.