Lake Kutcharo in Hokkaido, Japan

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Lake Kutcharo [Japanese: クッチャロ湖] in Hamatombetsu.

Map around Lake Kutcharo (in Japanese)

Lake Kutcharo is in the North Okhotsk Prefectural Natural Park
[Japanese: 北オホーツク道立自然公園].

Lake Kutcharo was fully covered with snow.

It was the world of white!

Lake Kutcharo is designated by Ramsar Convention.

Hamatombetsu Lake Kutcharo Waterfowl Observatory [Japanese: クッチャロ湖水鳥観察館] was beside the lake.

The number of swan arrivals to Lake Kutcharo.

Taxidermy of Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)

[Japanese: オオハクチョウ; 大白鳥]

Information of swans.

Lake Kutcharo is the good spot to see the breeding time of swans. 

Taxidermy of eagle

Taxidermies of seals

Taxidermies of many animals living around Lake Kutcharo

Taxidermies of the brown bears (Ursus arctos) [Japanese: ヒグマ]

Episode of Lake Kutcharo

Tomo&Chouchou went to Lake Kutcharo [Japanese: クッチャロ湖] and Hamatombetsu Lake Kutcharo Waterfowl Observatory [Japanese: クッチャロ湖水鳥観察館] by group tour. When we visited there, it was the world of white! It was full of snow! Lake Kutcharo was fully covered with snow. We couldn't find any lake around. Without Lake Kutcharo signs, we could not have found it. We found the diploma of Ramsar Convention. We understood that Lake Kutcharo was designated by Ramsar Convention and it was protected. We could also understand that this area, North Okhotsk Prefectural Natural Park, is the wetland, and waterfowl habitat area.

We found the Hamatombetsu Lake Kutcharo Waterfowl Observatory beside the lake. We decided to enter there. Before entering there, it was written that 400 swans had arrived. Unfortunately winter is not the season to see swans, so we could not see any swans. It seems that tundra swans (Cygnus columbianus) [Japanese: コハクチョウ; 小白鳥] stop by Lake Kutcharo in spring and autumn. Especially spring is the best season to see the swans' breeding time. Two couple swans make heart shape together. It is called "Happy ring". We can see it in spring. Inside the observatory, we found many taxidermies such as Whooper swan, eagle, seals, brown bears, sea turtle, deer, fox, peregrine falcon [Japanese: ハヤブサ], Japanese buzzard (Buteo japonicus) [Japanese: ノスリ] and so on. They were so real. Sometimes scary. Anyway we could learn that what kind of spieces live around Lake Kutcharo.

We couldn't see the lake but we could enjoy the white world at Lake Kutcharo in winter. We could have the special time at Lake Kutcharo.

 

Information

Lake Kutcharo is designated by Ramsar Convention on July 6, 1989. Ramsar Convention is the international treaty on wetland conservation. It is known as the Convention on Wetlands. Official name is the "Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat". Lake Kutcharo is the third place designated by Ramsar Convention in Japan. 

 

Hamatombetsu Lake Kutcharo Waterfowl Observatory
クッチャロ湖水鳥観察館

Location: Kutcharo Lakeside
Address: Kutcharo Kohan, Hamatombetsu-cho, Esashi-gun, Hokkaido
[Japanese: 北海道枝幸郡浜頓別町クッチャロ湖畔]
Open: 9:00 - 17:00

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Travel Itinerary of Hokkaido Snow Festival tour Tomo & Chouchou joined

Travel agent：Club Tourism International Inc.
Date: Feb in 2016 (2 nights 3 days)

1st day: Arrive at Wakkanai airport　⇒　Scallop lunch at Wakkanai station which has northernmost railroad track　⇒　Snow activities such as snow rafting, snow mobile, snow tube at Soya Fureai Park (Japanese: Soya Fureai Koen, 宗谷ふれあい公園）　⇒　Visit Cape Sōya (Japanese: Sōya-Misaki, 宗谷岬), where is the northernmost point of Japan. Visit Drift Ice Hall too.　⇒　Watch Russian musical ensemble at Wakkanai Sakhalin Hall (Japanese: Wakkanai Sakhalin Kan, 稚内サハリン館)　⇒　 Stay at Hotel Meguma in Wakkanai. Enjoy Wakkanai hot spring and Soya crab dinner course.

2nd day: Visit Lake Kutcharo (Japanese: Kutcharo-ko, クッチャロ湖) in Hamatombetsu (浜頓別).　⇒　Go to Cape Drift Ice / Cape Ryuhyo (Japanese: Ryuhyo-misaki, 流氷岬) in Monbetsu (紋別). Bord on the drift ice crusher "Garinko Ⅱ".　⇒　Stay at Sounkyo Kankou Hotel (層雲峡観光ホテル). Enjoy  41th Sounkyo Ice Waterfall Festival at night.

3rd day: Enjoy snow sculpture and ice sculpture of 67th Sapporo Snow Festival.　⇒　Eat Sapporo Ramen (Japanese:  ラーメン, which is a Japanese noodle soup) at New Chitose Airport Terminal (Japanese: Shin Chitose Kuko, 新千歳空港)  　⇒　Fly back to go home.

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Travel review of Hokkaido Snow Festival group tour

Tomo & Chouchou had dreamed of traveling to the snow festival in Hokkaido. Our dream came true with this tour!

There are so many snow festivals in Hokkaido. Sapporo Snow Festival is the most famous one. With this tour, we could go to two festivals "Sapporo Snow Festival" and "Sounkyo Hyobaku Festival". Normally it costs a lot to travel to Hokkaido during snow festival season. With this group tour, we could travel at a relatively reasonable price. So we were very lucky. We could also visit the northernmost point of Japan and board the drift ice crusher. Even though we couldn't see the drift ice, 2016 was not so enough cold to see the drift ice, it was enjoyable to look for the drift ice. All the foods that we ate were good. We were really satisfied with this tour.

Relating article

* Hotel Meguma in Wakkanai : northernmost hotel in Japan

* Wakkanai Secondary Port Market [Wakkanai Fukuko Ichiba]

Chantilly in France

Chantilly Racecourse 

[French: Hippodrome de Chantilly]

 

Horse museum

[French: Grandes Ecuries - Musée du Cheval]

Château de Chantilly and pond

Château de Chantilly

(near Statue Équestre d'Anne de Montmorency)

Chantilly Castle from the garden

 

Chantilly Castle Garden 

[French: Jardins du Château de Chantilly]

swan in Chantilly French garden [French: Jardin français] 

 

Cygnes Lake & English garden 

in Chantilly park

[French: Lac des Cygnes & Jardin anglais 

dans le Parc du Château de Chantilly]

sunset of Château de Chantilly

Episode of Hippodrome de Chantilly & Château de Chantilly

Tomo likes horse racing. Tomo was expecting to see horse racing in France.

We went to Chantilly on weekend. However horse racing was closed. Horse museum seemed to be closed. We were disappointed. But we could see racecourse [French: Hippodrome]. We were free to see. We just imagined horse racing there. Anyway the Chantilly racecourse was very beautiful.

Horse museum [Grandes Ecuries- Musée vivant du Cheval] was just infront of the racecourse. The building was also beautiful. We could find the statue of horse on the wall of the entrance. It was unique.

We decided to move to the Chantilly Castle Garden. Actually we could see the Chantilly Castle from Chantilly racecourse. It was the nice spot to see the whole Chantilly castle and pond together. It was very beautiful. We took lots of photos there.

We entered the garden [Jardins du Château de Chantilly]. It was huge!! We were surprised at the largeness of the garden. Moreover the garden was well organized. Especially French garden [Jardin français] was well ordered. We could find swan in French garden.

While walking in the garden, we could enjoy Chantilly castle [Château de Chantilly] from various angles.

We really liked English garden [Jardin anglais]. There were several swans in the lake. We could understand why this lake was called swan lake [Lac des Cygnes]. When we went there, it was autumn. We could enjoy autumn colors. It was very peaceful. We felt time stopped. We could stay for a long time there.

More than anything, Chantilly castle was splendid! Château de Chantilly became our most favorite castle. The beauty of the Chantilly castle impressed us. The reflection of the castle in the water was breathtaking.We really liked the Chantilly castle during sunset. It was so romantic.

We only walked in the park but we were so satisfied with the beauty of Chantilly. So time passed fast. We strongly recommend Chantilly to visit!

 

 

For your information

It is said that Hippodrome de Chantilly is the oldest racecourses in France. 
In Horse museum, we can see training demonstrations, equestrian show and harness collection.

Horse museum is a stable. Horses for horse racing was still bred there.

Inside Château de Chantilly, there is Condé museum [French: Musée Condé]. 

There is a library in Petit Chateau. It contains 13,000 old books. 

Château de Chantilly

Location: 7 rue Connétable, Le Château, 60500

Department: Oise in Hauts-de-France

Open from 10h - 17h (Park is open until 18h)

Closed on Tuesdays.

Access: 25 or 45 minutes by train from Gard du Nord in Paris. Get off at Chantilly-Gouvieux station.

Mt.Motoshirane hike & Yugama in Kusatsu, Japan

Hiking course that Tomo & Chouchou went

Shirane Rest House (Japanese: 白根レストハウス) 　➡　Yugama crater lake（Japanese: 湯釜, Yugama)  on foot of Mt. Shirane (Japanese: 白根山, Shirane-san)　➡　Shirane Rest House 　➡　Mt.Ainomine　➡　Mt.Motoshirane　➡　Shirane Rest House　

  You can enjoy 3 mountains though this hiking; 

1) Mt. Shirane =Mt.Kusatsu-Shirane 2160 m high, active volcano
    (Japanese: 草津白根山, Kusatsu-shirane-san)
2) Mt.Ainomine 2110 m high (Japanese: 逢ノ峰, Ainomine)
3) Mt.Motoshirane 2171 m high, volcano (Japanese: 本白根山, Motoshirane-san)

Location: Kusatsu-matchi, Agatsuma-gun in Gunma prefecture
                (Japanese: 群馬県吾妻郡草津町)

 

Mt. Shirane (=Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane,

2160m high, active volcano)

There is a crater lake called "Yugama" on the foot of Mt.Shirane.

This is the Shirane Rest House.

Many buses stop around here. 

We can walk to Yugama from here.

 

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Start to climb Mt. Shirane

 

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The view from Mt.Kusatsu-Shirane.

On the way from Shirane Rest House to Yugama

 

The view from Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane.

 We can see many mountains around such as

 Mt. Motoshirane and Mt. Ainomine.

The view of Mt.Kusatsu-Shirane.

We could see Yumiike pond (Japanese: 弓池, Yumi-ike). 

This is Yugama (Japanese: 湯釜). 

Yugama is one of the most famous and largest of three crater lakes

 of Mt. Kusatsu-Shirane (Japanese: 草津白根山).
It's an emerald-green or turquoise-colored crater lake.

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Go back down to Shirane Rest House

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Go across the car road

 Here is the trailhead of Mt.Ainomine and Mt.Motoshirane.

There are stairs to go up.

 

We can see Yugama from Mt.Ainomine.

The hiking trail to Mt.Motoshirane. 

Easy to walk. 

We can enjoy the landscape of mountains all the time.

We could see the top of Mt.Motoshirane.

 

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Go back to the Shirane Rest House.

 

Episode of Hiking 3 mountains in Kusatsu

Tomo & Chouchou dreamed of seeing Yugama, which is an emerald-green or turquoise-colored crater lake on the foot of Mt.Shirane (=Mt.Kusatsu-Shirane). In front of Mt.Shirane (=Mt.Kusatsu-Shirane), there is Mt. Motoshirane. Mt.Ainomine is located between Mt.Shirane and Mt.Motoshirane. So there are three mountains to hike! So we decided to enjoy Yugama, hiking and hot spring in Kusatsu. 

We took a bus from Kusatsu-onsen Bus Terminal to Mt.Shirane. Bus stops around the Shirane Rest House.

The hiking trail to Yugama was very crowded by the tourists, but we walked up Mt.Shirane at first. On the way to go up to Yugama, the landscape was very beautiful. We could see many mountains and Yumiike pond. 

When we arrived at Yugama, so many tourists were taking photos. It was very crowded. But we could understand their feeling. Because the color of Yugama crator lake was so bright as the travel brochere. We were fascinated by the beauty of the nature.

We went down from Yugama, passed the rest house, acrossed the car road, then headed to the trailhead of Mt. Ainomine. Hiking course was nice and easy to walk.  It was not the hike in the forest. It was the hike on the top of the mountains all the time. So we could enjoy the landscape of mountains while walking.
On the top of Mt.Motoshirane, we can enjoy the 360 degrees wide view. We can also see Yugama far. We took our lunch on the top of Mt.Motoshirane.

After 30 minutes down from the top of Mt. Motoshirane, we found the pond called "Kagami-ike" (Japanese: 鏡池). After going down more, we found the Shirane Kazan Ropeway. Ropeway runs from Sancho station (near the top of Mt. Ainomine) to Sanroku station. But Tomo & Chouchou didn't take a ropeway. We walked back to the rest house to take a bus to Kusatsu-onsen.
Three mountains in Kusatsu are not so high mountains but we could enjoy the hike and the landscape like we were hiking high mountains.

Tomo Chouchou's advice for hiking

1) If you have difficulty to climb the mountain or go down the mountain, you can use Shirane Kazan Ropeway. Ropeway runs from Sanroku station to Sancho station (near the top of Mt.Ainomine). You can also use one way to go up or to go down.

2) Enjoy your lunch on the top of Mt. Motoshirane. The view from the top of Mt.Motoshirane is really nice. It's 360 degree wide view.

3) Many tour buses stop around Shirane rest house. We can walk up to Yugama from the rest house. It's not difficult to hike. Many tourists only enjoy walking course between Shirane Rest Hourse and Yugama. This walking course is very crowded, but other hiking courses are not crowded.

4) We can access to Mt.Shirane from Kusatsu Hot Spring (Japanese: 草津温泉, Kusatsu-onsen). It takes 30 minutes by bus. It costs around 1000yen. We can book a bus ticket at Kusatsu-onsen Bus Terminal. You can book an accomodation at Kusatsu hot spring then you can come visit to Mt.Shirane for hiking or sightseeing! Don't miss Yugama in Kusatsu! It's very worth to see it!


information
Mt.Kusatu-shirane was erupted on January 23, 2018.
You had better check if you can hike there.


Other places in Gunma, Japan

- Oze Marshland [Ozegahara] hike

- Fukiware Falls [Fukiware-no-Taki]

Autumn Colour cruise in Laurentians, Quebec, Canada

Laurentian Mountains [Laurentides in French] 

The Laurentian mountains are one of the famous colored leaves spots in Quebec province in Canada.
The Laurentian Mountains are included in the "Maple Route" which is a famous route for autumn colours.
The Maple Route is about 800 km from Niagara to Quebec city.
Laurentians is located about 60 km north of Montreal.
It takes about 45 minutes to go to Laurentians from Montreal.
The tour bus arrived at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts in Quebec province.

 

We took a tour bus from Montreal.

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Arrived in Sante-Agathe-des-Monts.

 

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We walked to the harbour.

It's 60 - 90 minutes boat cruise called "Lac des Sables".

We can enjoy the colored leaved of the Laurentian mountains.
The boat moves slowly on the Lake (Lac des Sables). 

 

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-  Lac des Sables Cruise - 

 

 

coloured Maple leaves of the Laurentian mountains.

(The view from the boat cruise) 

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Tour bus stopped by Saint Sauveur village.

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A beautiful Catholic church "Paroisse St-Sauver" 

in Saint Sauveur village.

The shops and houses in the town were decorated with Halloween goods.

 

 

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Tour bus came back to Montreal.

Episode of the Autumn colours tour of the Laurentian mountains

It was our dream to see the coloured leaves of Maple route in Quebec. So we booked the excursion for Laurentians at tourist information in Montreal.

We went to the Laurentian Mountains from Montreal by tour bus. It took about 45 minutes to go to Laurentians from Montreal.
The tour bus arrived at Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts in Quebec province. As soon as we got off the bus, we could see the colored leaves in the town. So we were already excited to see such a colourful scenery. But we were really looking forward to discovering a boat cruise in Laurentians, so we hurried to go to the harbor.
It's 60 - 90 minutes boat cruise on the lake called "Lac des Sables" in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts. The boat takes time and move slowly on the lake. At the beginning of the cruise, we were just surprised to see the huge scale of colored leaves of the Laurentian mountains. Maple leaves were coloured such as orange, yellow and red. Those colourful scenery spreaded all directions! We lost our words. We were captivated by the beauty of the maple trees of the Laurentian mountains.
The scenery was too beautiful from each angle and that made us to take photos at every moment. As a result, we took a lot of pictures.　:-)
After our excitement calmed down, we finally could enjoy the autumn colour quietly. The cruise was very calm, tranquil, relaxing and peaceful. We felt like that time stopped at that moment.

On the way to go back to Montreal, the tour bus stopped by Saint Sauveur village. We had a little bit of free time there so we walked around the town.
There was a beautiful Catholic church called "Paroisse St-Sauver" in Saint Sauveur village. The shops and houses in the town were decorated with Halloween goods, so we could enjoy the autumn more.
Saint Sauveur was very pretty town. Saint Sauveur has full of autumn colors.
We could also enjoy the peaceful time in Saint Sauveur. 

We really enjoyed the splendid and colourful Laurentian mountains. We had calm, relaxing and beautiful time in Laurentians, Quebec!


Information

The tour Tomo&Chouchou joined through the tourist information in Montreal.
The Autumn colours tour of the Laurentian mountains - Excursions

The boat cruise in Laurentians（50 - 90 minutes）
Croisières Alouette - Ste-Agathe-des-Monts, Laurentides
http://croisierealouette.com/en  (English or French)

Nagahama Castle & Nagahama Ho Park in Shiga, Japan

Tomo Chouchou joined day-trip group tour for cherry blossom in Shiga prefecture in Japan.
Here is one of the cherry blossom spots.

Nagahama Castle (Japanese: Nagahama-jyo, 長浜城）

is located inside Nagahama Ho Park.
There are about 800 cherry trees surrounding the Nagahama Castle.

Nagahama Ho Park [Japanese: Nagahama Ho-koen, 長浜豊公園]

is one of the "100 Best Japan Sakura Spots (日本さくら名所100選)".

There is the Lake Biwa [Japanese: Biwa-ko, 琵琶湖]

in front of the Nagahama Ho Park.

Episode of Nagahama Castle & Nagahama Ho Park

Tomo & Chouchou went to Shiga prefecture with group day tour for cherry blossoms. There are so many good spots to see beautiful cherry blossoms around the Lake Biwa [Biwa-ko, 琵琶湖] in Shiga prefecture, so our tour visited several places of them. One of the cherry blossoms spots is the Nagahama Castle [Nagahama-jō, 長浜城] & Nagahama Ho Park [Ho-Koen] located in Nagahama in Shiga prefecture.
Nagahama Castle is located inside Nagahama Ho Park. There are about 800 cherry trees surrounding the Nagahama Castle. The combination of the castle and cherry blossoms were very beautiful.
Nagahama Ho-Koen is one of the "100 Best Japan Sakura Spots". While walking under the cherry trees, we admired the beauty of cherry blossoms. We even felt we were purified. Nagahama Ho Park was large. And there was the Lake Biwa. in front. We could enjoy the beautiful scenery of spring such as pink cherry blossoms, blue lake and green grasses. It was very relaxing and comfortable place to enjoy the spring! It could be nice to have a picnic in the park.

We entered Nagahama Castle. Inside the castle, it was beautiful and interesting. We could imagine the past. We also went up the castle tower [Tenshukaku, 天守閣] of Nagahama Castle. We could see the whole Nagahama Ho Park, Mount Ibuki [Ibuki-yama, 伊吹山] and Lake Biwa from the castle tower. During the cherry blossom season, the view of 800 cherry trees looks like the pink sea. It was worth to enter the castle!

Tomo & Chouchou's advices for Nagahama

1)We strongly recommend to go up the castle tower of Nagahama Castle.
2)There is a 400-year-old tree (樹齢400年の老木）in Nagahama Ho Park. The tree has been watching the all history of Nagahama. We can feel and get the strong energy from the tree!
3)A castle town [Jōkamachi, 城下町] in Nagahama still keeps the same style as it was built. Why not strolling the castle town to feel the history in old town?
4)To the Japanese history lovers, please don't forget to see the statue of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣秀吉像）in Ho-Koen and the statues of Hideyoshi & Mitsunari (秀吉・三成出逢いの像) at Nagahama station [長浜駅].

History of Nagahama Castle

Nagahama Castle was built by Hashiba Hideyoshi/ 羽柴秀吉 (former name was Kinoshita Tōkichirō/ 木下藤吉郎,  later name was Toyotomi Hideyoshi/ 豊臣秀吉). It was the first main castle which Toyotomi Hideyoshi built.
cf. Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598) was a samurai worrior and a preeminent powerful feudal lord [daimyo] who unifies Japan.
When Hideyoshi started to build the castle, that area (village) was called Imahama/ 今浜. After completing, Hideyoshi promotes to Shiromochi-Daimyo/ 城持ち大名 (=daimyo who owns a castle) and he renamed the area Nagahama/長浜 as a tribute to Oda Nobunaga/ 織田信長. So Nagahama Castle/ 長浜城 is also called Imahama Castle/ 今浜城.
cf. Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582) was a powerful samurai daimyo warlord. His successor was Toyotomi Hidesyoshi.
Unfortunately Nagahama Castle was demolished in 1615, but many parts of the castle such as stone walls were used to construct Hikone Castle/ 彦根城.
It is said that Tenbin Yagura/天秤櫓 (=Balance Scale Turret) of Hikone Castle, the gate (Daidokoro-mon/ 台所門) of Nagahama Betsuin Daitsuji Temple/ 長浜別院大通寺, the front gate (Omote-mon/ 表門) of Chizenin/ 知善院 Temple have been moved from Nagahama Castle. Then in 1909, the park was built on the ruins of the Nagahama Castle. This park was named Ho Park [Ho-Koen/ 豊公園] after Toyotomi Hideyoshi who owned Nagahama castle.
cf.Toyotomi in Kanji: 豊臣. Toyo 豊 is also called Ho.
People in Nagahama strongly wished to rebuild the Nagahama Castle then they collected contributions to the castle. In 1983, Nagahama castle was reconstructed.
Nagahama Castle is now Nagahama Castle Historical Museum/ 長浜市長浜城歴史博物館. The appearance is the castle. However it's a museum about the city of Nagahama.

Information

Nagahama Castle Historical Museum [長浜市長浜城歴史博物館]
Address: 10-10 Koencho, Nagahama, Shiga, Japan

              滋賀県長浜市公園町10-10
Opening hours: 9am - 5pm (Entry is allowed until 4:30pm) All year long
Admission fee: Adult 400yen, 6-15 years old 200yen

Nagahama Ho Park (Ho-Koen) [長浜豊公園]
Address: Koencho, Nagahama, Shiga
             滋賀県長浜市公園町

Access: 5-10 minutes walk from JR Nagahama station [JR長浜駅]　

Opening hours: 24hours
Admission fee: free
About 140 cars are available in the parking place
There are public toilets in the park.

 

Chery blossom season: from Early April to Mid April

There is night illumination for several days.

Hiking - Lake Juclar in Canillo, Andorra (2)

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we could arrive at the Lake Juclar.
Tomo & Chouchou ate lunch in front of the lake.

There were a mountain hut [=Juclar refuge] and toilettes.

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yellow flowers called "Genista Plant (Genista Balansae)"

 They grow in the Pyrenees mountain.

 

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We found two signs showing the direction around the foots of the mountain.

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We could see many horses around the car parking.

 

Chouchou could see many beautiful horses very close.

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Episode of Lake Juclar hiking

Tomo & Chouchou start to see the part of the lake, but it didn't match with our hiking map. Then we realized that we mistook the hiking trail. Anyway, we could arrive at our destination: the Lake Juclar. Juclar Lake was very beautiful. So we ate lunch in front of the lake.
Near the Lake Juclar, there was a mountain hut [=Juclar refuge]. There were toilettes there.
We could see many yellow flowers called Genista Plant (Genista Balansae), which grow in the Pyrenees mountain, on the hiking trail.
When we arrived around the foot of the mountain, we found two signs showing the direction. We realized that we made a mistake at this point.... anyway we were satisfied that we succeeded to reach the Lake Juclar.
When we arrived around the car parking, we could see many horses close. Tomo & Chouchou approached a horse quietly. We could see many beautiful horses very close.
We could enjoy the flowers, mountains, lakes, snow and horses with this hike.
It was very enjoyable and fantastic hike!



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* Hiking- Fontverd Route [Escardes-Engordany]