Setting the scene - steam gushing from the ground in all manner of places!
Oniishibozu-Jigoku - shaved head hell - after the name of the area. Oniishi means shaven head..and because the large and small bubbles of hot gray mud look like the shaven heads of monks!
Luckily for the two chaps pruning the trees they are not adjacent to any of the bubbling clay!
See what I mean about the demons!
On the way to the next one - this is the entrance bit....
How is the water lily coming along Lesley? Saw this and immediately thought of you.
Umi-Jigoku ..... gazing out upon the mystically cool cobalt blue of this pond stirs images of a crystal clear sea but in fact the water temperature here is a scalding 98 degrees C. the feature was created 1,200 years ago after the volcanic explosion of Mt. Tsurumi and corresponds to a site labelled Kubri-no-Yu' in the Bungo Topography'.......so it says in the leaflet!
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This was the next one round the loop, have just packed away everything as am moving in the morning, so haven't got the name of it!
Now time to dip our toes in the very hot water....was very good...could have stayed in for hours but more Hells to see!
See the other post for the remainder of the pictures as Blogger giving me grief again!!
After the visit and return bus trip, I did a quick shop trip then went and had the remainder of my previous night's witches brew, then back to the room to rest and recuperate. I am getting a bit more sleep here than while at Nagoya, so feeling a bit more chilled out!. I do havee a few extra aches and pains - ankle and right wrist twinging, but give thema few days and they will be forgotten. My bash on the head is quite painful to the touch so am leaving ti alone - steering clear when putting on the anti-wrinkle cream. I think it will eventually show a strange colour but at least I haven't got a black eye!
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