Another good day is coming to an end, here, on this side of the planet 🌌

We came at 6am to an empty station to take the first train to temple 39. From there, we started our 31km day hike to temple 40 🏯

We met some funny fellows today: this perfect-looking, straight-from-my-childhood-drawings frog 🐸 and a very friendly and chatty Japanese cyclist who gave us energy bars and showed us the way to a much more beautiful and scenic mountain trail πŸ—» This trail, the Matsuo Tōge, had the cutest motivational signs handmade from elementary school kids 🫠 You can find a selection of the best ones in the pictures.

We indeed completed the trail and the rest of the day very motivated and cheered up, gambatte! πŸ’ͺ

Now, it’s time to rest well before another long day of around 40km tomorrow. Ab in die Pofe !

Maike ⏰