touch your toes tootsie roll ( mino monkey adventure)

So, last thursday we ( shiv me, kimu and dom-san) set out to the town/city of mino in search of the forest monkeys. We picked a great day to go to mino because it was really warm ( t shirt ) weather and sunny. the town was very cute and picturesque. The walk to mino falls was especially nice, and the fresh air was really welcomed. Osaka air will kill you (eventually...). kim shares the same dislike for squat toilets as I do, so i felt that we bonded more on this trip cause there were no western toilets. The falls was ok. i give it a 3/10 for wow value. Niagra falls getting a 9, and that falls in nordegg gets an 9.8 (cause it was so amazing and had 3 parts and could get so close. So, it wasn't too impressive, it could have been mistaken for a bust pipe line that happened to cascade down a rocky cliff.

The rest of the day was good though, we went walking to find the interpretive center mino, and like all adventures in Japan, getting there is most of the fun. the walk was great and we saw monkeys just sitting alongside the highway. It was grand. There were monkeys in the tree's and i sort of felt like we were in jungle book. me and shiv were hoping that they (monkeys) would burst out into song ( I wanna walk like you..talk like you...) but they didn't.

We did however see some really had core japanese photographers. They had lenses on their camera that were nearly 1 m long, and their camera accesories had camo print on them so that they couldn't be seen by the monkeys ( yeah right). Shiv estimated that one mans camera equipment was worth over $10,000.

So after stopping a bit, taking pictures, and visiting an insect/taxidermy exhibit at the visitor booth, we headed back to civilization and we were well pooped. Here are some pics from our day at mino.