The Chair

YO! l just got the pictures from A ... allright, A stand for Akeed!
So here is the famous chair l was talking about perviously ... exactly here.
And don't think that it is carved by human hand ... to tell the truth l didn't even ask if the chair was carved with tools 'cos these are just all collected pieces put together ... and believe it or not ... it is really comfortable! thats the chair l would love to have ... it is a gift from nature and just a "hollow bamboo" collected the woods as they were and voila` ... so in tune with nature and therefore with the body when u lie down on it ... without the psychiatric on your back of course!

Full Moon Nite

While l prepare for the next post, please enjoy this full moon nite l shot from my garden with winter breeze ... ... loving you

Bye Nango

Yeah thats right ... just 3 days l stayed in Nango and got, of course, one of the best time in my life.
But u know ... gotta move on ... l loved very much the spot, where l am with Golo, 'cos from there had a superb view of sea side

such as this Sunrise ... actually my very first "wild" sunrise ... and ... ok look first the picture


it was between 5~5:30 AM ... and such a golden line ... a waving cloud and the upper rays ...
and l said already a lot!
so u better check out this movie and watch out for the lighthouse

The scrolling title at the beginning of the movie is pronounced HI-NO-DE alias Sunrise in japanese (^-^)v

Back 2 Nango

Yeahey everyone! how are you?
Now l'm gonna post some of the amazing things with such creativity ... it literally blowed my mind faaaar off ... l was waiting this moment to show you ... thats why l had the hurry to get out of Yakushima hehe , 'cos more juicer posts are coming!!! but please forgive me if l slowed down with the blog ... l had to cut my time to sit here on the PC and so .... ok ok ok lets go on (^.^)v
Well, l went straight to A place in Nango, left Yakushima at midday and reached at his door between 9~10 PM and of course Golo the dog was jumping like .... like a happy dog!
But A was very surprised that l went back that night (l sent to him a notice mail but he is more ecological than technological) because he expected me the next day and anyway it was very nice to see again these fellas ... and there were 2 guests, a couple of around their 50thies and l met them for the first time .... but u know, this man made a wooden chair ... l mean it is more simile to the psychiatric couch, the one u almost lie down with the brainwasher behind u pretending to listen your rubbish ... well, shame on me l did not make the picture on this chair (l will ask to A to take one shot for me so u can see what l mean) and the beauty is that it is really comfy!!! and he created it so beautifully!!! but the most amazing ones are the ones made by his wife ... u know that Nango is a place of Typhoon (well not always...so don't get scared) and often u can find so many beautiful things on the beaches, things that the ocean brings, many funny things and A as well this couple l'm talking about, love very much to walk on the beach after typhoon and to pick whatsoever they feel like.
And that chair is one example and the wife instead, pick up small & big seashells and .... just look what she make out of it althought l shot from the postcards ... l did my best to make the quality of the picture enjoyable .... go and have a mindblowout experience!

AMAZING UH!? go on please

what can l say? ... l said already enough (^-^)

yeah l know there should be more but she had only these 3 postcards and she told me that she made many many many many many many .... l GULPED!!!
l told her ... that l'm very very very sorry to not be able to visit her place at that time so she can show me her amazing creativity ... but l assured that next time l go there in Nango it will be one of the first thing to do for me .... to see these small creatures, coming alive from the ocean through the hands of an hollow bamboo!!!

Fuji-san-set

This movie l took after l shot the pictures ... so u can see the whole scenery (^-^)

Zen Style

l'm back

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWW .... meeeoowww .... sorry for being so late ... l was busy to learn how to take care better my body ... but ALAS let get out of Yakushima!

You don't know what it does mean to stay 3 days continuously under rain and wet all over the body (except night time eh) and then suddenly WUEEEMMMMM the hot sun SSHUUUUMMMM kicking everywhere! it was really nice to be exposed to the SOURCE! (eh...because if the sun pop out then u too pop for sure... eh)
Anyway all my stuff, even my purse, my block-note with all the papers inside ... all w-e-t and so u can see that l'm making them happy tho have a happy sun-bathing and especially me of course!

l found a nice link with many more very nice pictures of Yakushima ... just go and dive in.
Well ... the Rocket boat is waiting for me to sail and so l guess it is time to finally say:
Yakushima-san ..... thank you & goodbye! ................... l mean: see you again!

Coming Soon

Not Yet ... LOL

ln Shiratani Hut, when every one was out of the way and only few ones remained, l could look better and also breath much much better and was looking for, immediately, the place to sleep for the night ... and so l went in a room, the best one, and it was empty and clean and breathable and spacious.
Actually there were 2 young guys ... l introduced myself and with a nice surprise one of these guys could speak english fluently .... OOOOOOOHHHH finally a smooth conversation!
They were a group of students from Kyoto traveling together but it happend that one of them got sick and so he had to stop in the Hut to get rest and all the company went on, l think they wanted to reach to the top of the mountain Miyanoura-Dake, the tallest one! and only this fellow remained there to take care the friend, hoping to reach the group in the same day ... but it wasn't possible.
So we decided to go together to the bus stop place and also the entrance of this beautiful place, also the mama and the daughter, that we slept together in the first Hut at Jomon-sugi, joined our mission.
The mission was:
1 -Me to check the time of the first bus in the morning and to walk and enjoying the mystical nature without the 19 kg on my shoulders!!!
2 - The guy with fluent english, Ichiro, to try sending a SMS message to the group to tell'em that they were stopping for the night in the Cabin ('cos he couldn't send from where he was and so...)
3 - The mama & daughter were going to take the bus to go back to where they come from.

So now l just scanned the map and u can see the way we did to go (red spots) and the way back (blue spots)

Real adventure walking through this tropical land, breathtaking scenery (damm ... couldn't make a movie! thats was the real deal!) checked the time 4 the bus, he succeeded to send a message and a good farewell to the gals.
On the way back Ichiro wanted to to take the same way because it was the shortest and so the fastest too (worrying about his friend left there alone ... with my backpack!) but l said to him "my friend, without offense, it was nice to come down together and it is also nice to go back together but l understand your concern for your friend and this is very nice on your part, but this is also my last chance, the only opportunity to enjoy more this place taking the longer route (the blue spots) also because l'm very light and moreover tomorrow morning l'll have to take again the same trail to catch the bus ... l'm sorry so, see you there ciao" and he said "wait wait ... this is also my first time here and my last chance and me too l'd love to take the longer route ... so lets go together!" he was a very nice guy, l felt as if l knew him all my life ... yes that kind of feeling was there ion my part and l said this to him and asking if he also was feeling the same? "kind of" he answered. OK then l said "then lets go back ... we can go faster for your friend" and we started to go faster (almost running) .... then after a while l said "AOH!? no need to push ... your friend is not gonna die! of this l'm sure!!!" EKKEKAZZO?! ("what a fuck?" in italian) and he got the point and we enjoyed the trip and we found out that we didn't take so long to reach the Cabin and his friend was deeply snoring! (l knew!!!)

Here have a look of the inside the Hut ... you'll see my clothes and raincoat ... and it shot from the room

and here down l'm shooting to the entrance of the room

and my "bed" from the window

Much better than the first Hut uh?! and moreover with such nice company ... there was also another boy and funny thing is that after a while ('cos we eat "dinner" together ... kind of) l asked him (l wanted to check out my feelings) if he was from TOKYO? .... yes he said.
My Gosh!!! it is really true!!! l can tell if this person is coming from tokyo even if he doesnt speak or move ... amazing, l was surprised to guess right. (may be l was just lucky to guess it right).
And sleep ... and slept soundly ... and thats what l'm gonna do now ... and yes the last on Yakushima will be on the next post ... forgive me.
So now let me change the title ... LOL .... oooooowwww life is really beautiful ....

Shiratani and Bye Yak

Well l guess this is my last post on the beautiful Yakushima island (may be not ... who knows?)
so l show u right away the last Polaroid map here in the beginning and so u will see the red trail and that was the first hiking all along the river and on the railway (the horizontal line) and then into the mountain upwards till ball 12, Jomon-sugi ok.


And the orange trail was towards Shiratani (forgive me l didn't manage to take proper pictures on this place 'cos of continuous raining ... however l found few nice pictures of someone else ... go 2 see) and l arrived at the ball 13, where there was the other mountain Hut, and see the line when l cut to the left into the deep forest from the red trail? yes that one ... that little piece in between ... mystical. sorry more than this l'm failing to express the feeling and it must have been the same feeling when Hayao Miyazaki got there and got inspired to make the famous Princess Momonoke anime ... l saw it and it is really beautiful and Hayao managed to share the awesome feeling of this mystical place in the anime in a very beautiful expression of art through technology ... u gotta watch it ... it is worth it, so better go to your rental video shop and rent it ... l'm sure u'll love it.
But when l reached to the Hut l was horrified to find it overcrowded, everyone totally wet like the rabbi ... u have to understand what l'm telling right now ... l was reading an Osho book (and also recently l was following a "race" of "dirties" jokes in an intimate "place" and l thought that this joke, l'm going to tell u right now, was from there but l didn't find it and then remebered where did l read it) and He told a joke and it was such a nice joke! and so it goes like this:

Two little children were playing with their dog by the sea when the dog was carried out to sea by a big wave. A passing rabbi dived in, saved the dog and revived it by artificial respiration.
The children asked, "Hey, rabbi, are you a vet?"
"Am I wet?" replied the rabbi. "I am absolutely soaked!"

LOL ... now u get what did l mean? and this Hut was much much bigger and when l tried to make way to go in ... my gosh, believe me, u will not love to be there in my shoes at that moment but not even dreaming it .... it was lunch time and outside, deep non-stop rain and inside, everyone sprawled around standing sitting and yoga positions and whatnot ... and ok it wasn't so terrible to see it but the smell! oooohhh my ... forgive me for telling u this but it is unforgettable! because the toilet was inside and ... ok u got it, so l had to eat in a room where there was a little space for my flat ass ... well! there might have been 6 or 7 separate touristic groups + families and travelers just like me ... and after lunch, just in a half an hour they all went out to go on ... it was amazing to see this! not like sardines but like branches of sheep with the "pastor" screaming IKIMASHOOOO IKIMASHOOOO (lest go lets go) !!!

... dammit! l gotta go ... see what did l say in the beginning? ok no problem l'll finish in the next post ... and by the way, strange coincidence! 'cos before writing this post l already put the title and did u see that l stopped at Yak instead of Yakushima? thats why ... now l get it!
so see u later! (^o^)/ bi

PS = Actually the joke l shared before l found it here! oooowwww l got confused ... sorry f(^.^)