The base of this hike was the touristic town at a big lake, called Akan Kohan. The small and exist of 50! (i have count them all) souvenirshop, who are selling basically the same shit, 5 grand hotels, 4 restaurants, one big tourist information centre and luckely for me a busstop.
Main income of the city, tourism in every way. You not only can make a boattour on the lake, also you can rent a rod to go for a half hour fishing. And let me tell you, japanese tourist like it easy, so the made a fish tank of 2x5 meters in the lake to fish in. You wont have to wait long to catch a big fish. Except the bored girl who was making big circels with the tip of her rod in the water. Tourists get bored easily. The Main attraction of thistown is the Ainu (the idegious people of Hokkaido) village. Discriminated untill the late '70 the history of the original inhabitants of Hokkaido makes a interesting story. All there rituals, believes and language was forbidden by the japanese goverment. A forced migration with the Russian deal about the Kurill islands,brought diseases and suffering upon the Ainu people. Their history is strongly rooted in Hokkaido.
But i am here to hike Me-Akan-Dake. At the start a big warning that you might encounter a brown bear. No other hikers on this trail to the summit so i found myself alone in a thick pinetree forest. Suddeny i got frightened by a sudden rush in the bushes. Ofcourse a bear comes into my mind, but i see two deers jumping away from me into the distance. The bells don't just scares away the bears! The bells should rather scares away those buggering moskiquitos, who apperently like my sweet blood. At the end of the trail, the forest is gone and i found myself walking on the moon or mars.
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like walking on the moon or mars. even the marslander is present
the summit
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