Ailsa’s travel theme this week is Mountains. I’ve never climbed one, but photographed a few, hope you like them.
I also hope the Gallery view works, you can see each one if you click on it (or so I’m led to believe!)
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- Off to Whistler
Travel and Tourism
Weekly Photo Challenge – Foreign
Map of Hokkaido showing the subprefectures and the primary cities (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Foreign – something unfamiliar, something different; this was certainly true of a visit to Japan a few years ago. We saw lots of food on sale in a local market which we had never seen before and which looked very strange to us. Later, dressed in tradional kimonos and seated crosslegged on the floor, we were served a wonderful selection of food at a formal banquet.
We travelled to the beautiful northern island of Hokkaido to visit the hot spring village of Norboribetsu-Onsen. Here visitors can enjoy the waters in one of the many spa hotels. It is a sort of ritual, where men and women bathe in separate areas. Once you have undressed and showered, you take a dip in several hot pools, each containing a different water. It is very therapeutic and strangely refreshing. Above the village is “Hell Valley” where you can see the sulphur pits and geysers gushing up into the air. The smell is something else……
But the sights and sounds of Japan will stay with me for a very long time
Amazing Alberta
I posted a photo of a view across the lake in Jasper, in a recent weekly photo challenge. As I looked through the photos from that visit, I remembered the beauty that surrounded us everywhere we went on that holiday and some of the great sights that we had seen and I thought I’d share some of them here. Hope you like them as much as we did.
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