Today after church the sun was shining and I didn’t feel like going home and sitting around. I told Mike I felt like walking around somewhere new. We went home, changed, filled up a jug of water, and checked the map for a new place to see.
We decided to head towards Uruma because the map showed some castle ruins. We also saw that there was a Wild Bird Nature Park so we decided to see that as well. We saw signs for the nature park and went down the road but it was a dead end. They were either renovating or decided not to have it open anymore. I saw what looked like a walking trail but there wasn’t a place to park! So we decided to try and find Agena Castle Ruins.
It looked easy enough from the map…and we figured we would see signs. The map showed it next to a bullring and the bullring had signs but not the castle ruins. We found the bullring…basically a dirt ring with a hill all around for seating. We actually got to see some of the BIG bulls but didn’t take any pictures because there were a lot of people just chilling (okay mostly staring once we showed up). We kept walking up the path because it looked promising...castle wise. Once we got to the end of the path we weren’t too impressed. There definitely used to be a castle there but it wasn’t maintained…I guess the bullring became a bigger sight to see.
We left and tried finding the Kanekadan Castle Ruins but couldn’t find them so we decided to head back to our area of the island. On the way back we saw a sign for a dam but ended up passing the road and finding another road to another castle! This one was still hard to find and involved some U-turns…one which led us here:
I'm not sure what is up with their fascination of gorillas here. This was on top of a..um.."hotel"
But we finally drove up a hill and down a very narrow road (a bit freaky too).
We passed a broken down van (we weren’t sure whether it was someone’s permanent shelter or not)
Then we got to a dead end…a good term because it was quite eerie. We did find Chiibanajo but it wasn’t what we had expected. We decided not to get out and took a picture from the car.
It was deep inside the forest and the clouds were setting in so we decided to drive out…as quickly as we could.
We found the Kurashiki Dam fairly easily. It was quite impressive to see as we were driving down the road. Our impressions upon leaving the car were not as pleasant as we were hit with a strong smell of the nearby pig farm. We walked around some and took some pictures
Just smile and pretend that it doesn't smell like a water treatment plant
...so glad the nausea part of pregnancy is over otherwise these pictures would have been a lot different! We saw people just sitting around outside…like they had just had a picnic or something! It looked like a fun idea but exiting the car I quickly changed my mind. I don’t think I would want to be putting anything in my mouth with the pig stench that was hanging around! They have a museum as well. Maybe we’ll look into it some other day but it was closed.
So we may have done more driving than sightseeing today but it was fun to not have a plan and just drive! We don’t normally do many different things here and have been to a lot of the same places often (mainly stores). I’m hoping the weather will be as cooperative tomorrow!
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