APR 9, Japan Visit: riverboating near Kyoto

Adventuresome visitors can raft the Hozu-gawa River, a 16-km trip with occasional choppy sections, on poled flatbottom boats through spectacular gorges down to the western Kyoto suburb of Arashiyama.

turtles sunning

the "Romantic Train" runs from Kameoka
through part of the gorge. Seats on that train were not available, but the boatride was definitely better, it seemed.

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 TODAY'S POEM (senryu *) 

write good poetry --

focus on the key moment

when Nature prevails.

Giorgio Coniglio

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