Our friends David, Naoko, and their 2 year old daughter Riana took us to Hakone for the weekend. Hakone is about 2 hours from Tokyo and the area is known for it's volcanic hot springs. We stayed at a traditional Japanese Ryokan with it's own hot Onsen baths. The baths are built of rocks placed in a great setting overlooking green mountains and a river. To take a bath we got to wear Yukatas to walk to the bath. When putting the Yukata on make sure the left side is folded over the right side!
For breakfast and dinner, traditional Japanese food was served. Wow!!! Have a look at all the different dishes, each beautifully arranged like a piece of art.
The next day we went up to the natural steam geysers on top of the mountain. This spot is famous for boiled eggs in the hot sulfur bath. The sulfur makes the egg shell all black, but not too smelly on the inside. Eating an egg means extra 7 years added to your life.
EPIC photo of Semu and Christi in the kimonos!!! 100% Spoc. And why doesn't David ever smile in photos???
ReplyDeletea question to the Yukatas: why is it essential to fold the left side over the right?
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did you eat a black egg? - or better 10 - to save an extra life.
lots of love vom Traudi!
To answer the Yukata question: right over left is only if someone died. To the eggs, of course we ate a whole bunch of them, boy are we going to be old ; )
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