Sunday, June 29, 2008

Hokkaido

The summer after the drawing class I was in Italy for a science conference and I thought I'd like to see the Sistine Chapel. I got there very early in the morning, bought my ticket before anybody else, and ran up the stairs as soon as the place opened. I therefore had the unusual pleasure of looking at the whole chapel for a moment, in silent awe, before anybody else came in. ~"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"/Richard P. Feynman
I was in Hokkaido with my family earlier this month, and had the chance to visit the hot springs at Noboribetsu. One popular location is called Hell's Valley (Jikokudani Valley) The tour group arrived at the place in the afternoon and it was quite crowded. We were lucky to be staying at a hotel a few hundred metres away and the next morning I decided to do what Feynman did and went back at 4am (the sun rose at 3am) to have the whole place to myself. 400 pictures here; some good, others not so good...

2 comments:

Fang said...

哇 北海道耶~這個行程我前幾年去的時候是3月份,還下著雪....洞爺湖的景色完全不一樣耶..而且冬天去日本,外面零下幾度,室內暖氣都在25度...熱漲冷縮之下..頭都快爆炸了...不過北海道真的很適合每個季節都去一次....http://www.wretch.cc/album/album.php?id=MorgenCity&book=7

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I think the mountains dominate the west and north while the plains dominate around five km within the coastline. There are three towns along the Pacific Ocean: from northeast to southwest, Noboribetsu, Horobetsu and Washibetsu.