Kyuu Shuu - Journey to Aso-san 火口

[kinsugi]

The land on the way to Aso-san, a live volcano, is old, harshly used, and dry. Perhaps it was once forested -- there are a few trees -- but now it's empty, sere, brown grassland, heavily eroded and badly overgrazed. Cow country. Here be Japan's cowboys. Here people eat meat, heavy sauces intriguingly influenced by Italian cooking, corn (you can

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[starmonkee]

Beautiful.

Did you make it to Beppu at all?

[wendera]

Gwa, I spent a year in Kumamoto and never managed to find time in my shedule to visit Mt Aso ;____; I went to Suizenji though!!