Iwaki Travel Guide

 14 Opinions

 manuelEB Says:  It is highly reccommended that you wear clothes that give you freedom of movement, keep you warm or cool depending of the season, and that harmonize with the nature without creating a camouflage effect. 

 manuelEB Says:  From here, the sport activity to be described is simply. You spent 4 hours to get here. You are tired and you well know that you have to go back. Go ahead...It was pm and we have 2 hours to get into the car before damn dawn...Now tell me, there is anytime for pictures? Run... 

 manuelEB Says:  Yes, that is a tradition in our family: women carry all the weight. Do not blame me, it is their decision, they will say "no, it is not heavy at all, and besides, I need the exercise". Who is going to argue? 

 manuelEB Says:  They always follow the leader, specially up to the ladder. He has the key... of the automobile that will (hopefully) bring them back to Tsukuba... and how do they regret complaining about how boring was Mt. Tsukuba 

 manuelEB Says:  to climb the ladder of success, that is not an easy task. To do it under the scrutiny of others is even worst. One step at the time. Both hands on the ladder, your left foot first, your right foot next. Do not look down, remember you are aiming at the stars.... 

 manuelEB Says:  if you listen carefully, the water will tell you its secrets... there is something frigthening in the strength we see in the water, you don't want to mess with this force... you respect it. 

 manuelEB Says:  Do not push them... even if you want to push them up. Give them time to ponder. Shall I continue operating within this family? Do I have alternatives? Shall I begin a sit-in? Will they feed me up there? Give them time to ponder.... 

 manuelEB Says:  A family never runs out of opportunities to teach the youngers on the ideas of democracy and free polls. You present the facts, point out at the pros, try to hide the con's and in a nutshell, you manipulate them into continuing climbing... as the prospect of going back is... 

 manuelEB Says:  Are you sure we are in the correct path? Finally, philosophy joined us. Are we right? If not, shall we accept we err and go back? or shall we keep making inroads until we can say I did it may way? None of the above. We assume self-deceiving, telling around we are right, of... 

 manuelEB Says:  you have only to follow the path, watch your steps, hold the chain, and smile to the camera. Nothing beats a smile as symbol of confidence!!! If mom can do it, we can do it twice. That is the message. 

 manuelEB Says:  maybe there is not god... maybe there is not destiny, but at this point we start to feel like marionettes...According to legend, marionettes got their name during the Middle Ages when puppeteers would present the Christmas Story. The most admired character in these Nativity... 

 manuelEB Says:  something didn't ring too well here. This is an easy hiking path (two stars, I was told), so what is the man-made help for? Iron steps (painted green in a useless effort to blend), chains... all alarms went off. We start to question ourselves about our criteria or lack of...... 

 manuelEB Says:  Image it: we arrived to the first waterfall and we were fresh as lettuces.... Care for some tea? Who? Are you talking to me? No tea.... yet, only smiles and selfcongratulation, make it double. 

 manuelEB Says:  It didn't took too long to reach the first waterfall. Awesome in its beauty and deceiving in its accessibility. If a were a poet, I would write about how it resembles a not-so-beautiful woman (poets always say that beautiful women are the difficult ones... ) 

 manuelEB Says:  Some children are very lucky indeed: their mothers will keep them out of harm. Other children will have mothers that will say: it is OK, you are not going to die because of a few brushes. 

 manuelEB Says:  there was a path... and people traveled along it. Thereafter they would erase their footprints and pretend they had took the less traveled road, Mother Nature laughed a lot. 

 manuelEB Says:  and your ears.. but cover your heads. This was a pretty good poster of the birds you are supposed to watch while going along the stream. Full of optimism we studied the poster for a while, trying to memorize the names and colors. 

 manuelEB Says:  The members are counted: I had one. Every participant had his or her own backpack, and the provisions included rice balls, chocolate, oreo biscuits, and two thermos with very cold wheat tea. Some towels, band-aids, mobile phones (completely useless in the montain) completed... 

 manuelEB Says:  It is always a good idea to check if you are at the right place. There is no mistake, the words are written on hard rock: Se-to-ga-rou. The first two characters mean back and door; if you made it backdoor... you are thinking too fast.