Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Hells of Beppu







One weekend we took the glorious bullet train ("shinkansen") and traveled 200 mph south to the small town of Beppu - famous for its hot springs.

Beppu has the largest volume of hot water in the world apart from Yellowstone in the US. Once we arrived, we got off the train and got on a local bus to go to the "nine hells of Beppu." The nine hells are nine boiling pools of different colored water and mud. As we approached the hells, you saw the hillside bathing in smoke. Pretty cool.

And in between hells, we saw a random hippo chewing on potatoes.

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