Sunday 3/5:
The day after I went on a short Wander Vogel trip to a small mountain outside of Tokyo. Actually I had been in the area before, on my first camping trip in Japan, which I wrote about in this post (Ps: in Norwegian). It was golden week by the way, so there were lots of other travelers out hiking.
Golden week is a week full of national holidays, so that almost everyone has vacation, and consequently everyone is out traveling at the same time making it a horrible and expensive week to do exactly that.
It was a one-day trip, just for the beginners, or beginner. Wander Vogel is starting to be a small club now that the fourth graders retired, and no new first graders started. I recruited Shing (think that is how you spell it), a new YSEP student from Hong Kong and Singapore that is interested in mountain climbing.
Shing was not used to the steep and tall mountains of Japan, just like me the first time, but he did great and we had a nice trip, event though in the end we didn’t go onsen at the end of the trip due to Golden week and to much people : (
Shing
