Wednesday, May 24, 2006
The Olive Garden
The coolest part of the island of Shodoshima (off the coast of Takamatsu, the biggest city in Kagawa prefecture) is the actual olive garden they have there (not the resteraunt). They tried to introduce olive trees in four different parts of Japan, but they only took and grew in Shodoshima. We had fun seeing all the greecian art and a little bit of Holland too. We went to a cool greenhouse where I bought myself a mint plant. We made a cool craft too (that felt kind of like being at girl's camp again) where I glued herbs and flowers from the area on a piece of an olive trunk. But by far the coolest was going to the onsen there. An onsen is a public bath, more like public hot tubs (usually they are natural hot springs, but the one here wasn't). By bath, I mean everyone is completely naked. Luckily, it is only girls with girls and guys with guys, so no co-ed stuff. It is a little weird at first, until you realize that everyone is just walking around naked. It was actually really nice. You take a real shower before you get in and they have all different ones. Some outside, one with rosemary in it, and one that was kind of like a massaging chair. I loved it. I wouldn't mind going back. It was a great trip there.
We didn't get to head up to the monkey forest or see the many peacocks, but we did get to see a cool peace statue and the narrowest strait in the world (it is even in the Guiness Book of World Records). It is called the strait of Dofuchu. Look it up. It was a great day and very relaxing.
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