Aso-san has the world's largest active caldera. The outer rim contains the five mountains of Aso; Naka-dake, the active volcano in the group, is where we went. It was negative six degrees and the wind was bitingly cold. Even though I was wearing seven layers, including two thicker sweaters, my fingers and face were frozen. I've been to a few active volcanoes in the past few years (Kilauea in Hawaii, Etna in Sicily), but this is the first time I was able to walk right up to the rim of the crater. That was really cool, but it did smell like rotten eggs up there.
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| Not terrorists in hiding - just taking refuge from the wind in the shelter |
beautiful pictures as always, and aren't you glad to be away from those temperatures?
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