road trip! part 4: beppu, ferry!

 i went to beppu

which is famous for it's onsen

 among those famous onsen,

is a group of eight(?) 'themed' onsen called

jigoku meguri (tour of hell)

 pretty cool place, but kind of expensive, 

2000yen or so? but definitely worth the walk and sweat

 one of the 'hells' was a zoo!

the animals sit in onsen water all day and get fat

 this is shohei! he was the star of the show!

 you could eat eggs boiled in onsen water

 and even drink the onsen water!

(this is asuka, she hung out with me all day! mahalos!)

 so funny story:

we were walking behind two girls, maybe 25ish,

and one girl asks the other,

"so, what thoughts do you have regarding hell?"

"i've given it a lot of though after coming here..

i'm really sorry for all the bad things i've done,

i definitely don't want to go to hell after seeing this.."

uhm, guurrrrl, hell is a LOT worse than this

 they had an alligator/croc farm,

with maybe at least 100 crocs all around..

i think they just bred and went crazy

 there were some ashiyuu,

but it was super hot, intense hot.

and it was hot outside so it wasn't very nice..

 speaking to serika on the phone

 that night i went to a gospel choir concert

and decided right away that i was just going to leave and go home

 ferry! about 70 minutes.

about 8000yen for me and the car

 almost ran out of gas... lucky...

in total the trip was about 1600km. 

pretty good if you ask me! i had a great time.

i wish i had more money, then i could have stayed longer,

or gone to nagasaki, or kumamoto, or kagoshima..

but next time ah! we go!