The Monkeys

A really good friend of mine went to Kyoto, and when she returned she told me she saw monkeys in the wild. I thought this was interesting and decided that I too wanted to see some wild Japanese monkeys. I have a friend, the German named Ully, who is fascinated with apes, and he has a Japanese friend who speaks fluent German, and she told us of a foothill outside Tokyo that has wild monkeys. So we decided we would go. We didn't see any monkeys in the wild but there was a zoo filled with them, so that was pretty good. But other then the monkeys the mountain was a perfect place for photographs. From the top you could partially see downtown Tokyo way of in the distance. We where in the middle of the forest, and Shinjuku must have been 20 kilometers away, yet we where still in Tokyo. This is a incredibly enormous city.


Since then I have started school again, and am now focusing on the next two week break, which interestingly enough is three weeks after the last one. I really want to do something memorable, and hopefully will see some decent snowfall. I'm going North where it's minus 15, like any decent Christmas spot, but I don't care, as long as I have some fun.