Sunrise.
It is crazy to climb Mt. Fuji for the first time and then you might think that you will never love climbing mountains! Well, I should start with a nice compliment about Mt. Fuji...yeah.
We took a night express bus from Tokyo to get to the half of the mountain, and started climbing around 10:30pm. It took us around 5hours to get to the summit. The last one and a half hour, there was a "trafic jam" on the way, as you know climbing more up narrower the path gets to be. And it was middle of summer but sooooooo cold around summit! We were freeeeezing the last few hours! I love to take pictures but what may I have gotten, I did not take so much. It was too cold!! After I installed them into my PC back home, I saw none of my pictures are there.
I really love this scinery!
I took only some pictures of sunrise and clouds at summit. It seems people climb for the sunrise, but for me sunrise was not as much as impressive but the clouds down beyond your eyes were really nice! There is a big volcano at the summit and it took us around 30mins to walk around it. We though we did not have to do it, but the first and the last time to be there. Why not?
Mt. Fuji is definitly beautiful by taking a look from a place far away, but you should not be close to it. It is not pretty at all. There are few trees and especially the path down is terrible with a lot of sands which would be blown off constantly when people walk. My face got to be totally black with the sands when we got to the bus stop at the half of the mountain, which was disgusting. Well, but it is a good experience. I should climb Mt. Fuji as I am a Japanese! It is kind of funny that climbing Mt. Fuji is so popular amoung foreigners but Japanese people are not interested in it. We've seen a lot of foreigners climbing Mt. Fuji. Half of them were not Japanese I thought. Oh well. It is good that I had friends to climb with and THAT was fun. Sheers Mt. Fuji!
