Hokkaido - day 2

Waking up very early to drive down to Minami Furano! We got a good price at HAT Rafting and they are so organized, preparing everything from the clothes, Japanese words to synchronize our movements, photographer, the bucket of water to wash our feet before getting into the bus to return… everything very detailed and well thought out.

The scenario for the rafting was amazing… not only fun, on those waves but the river is in the middle of green paradise; we saw a mink crossing the river in front of us, the blue butterfly over our heads, the pollen (which name I don’t remember) and looks like a snow in the river.

The water was less then 20C, very cold but nice to do rafting in such a beautiful day.

One hour rafting in that clean water is unforgettable. If I go to Hokkaido, I’d do it again for sure!!

Very hungry after rafting, we went up to Furano and we went to a famous restaurant there. We were not expecting, but their special dish is the “deer, duck and chicken nabe”… yes, I ate deer which was delicious… very lucky that I ate before meeting it’s relatives in person later on… I wouldn’t eat them after see those beautiful animals…

The meat is a bit tough, however the tasty is special, it’s similar to beef (more soft tasty actually then beef).

Of course, we went to Furano and Biei for the flowers field. It was already in the end of the season however still very colorful.

Hokkaido is very famous because of the lavender fields…. The best is to see in May or June, however we were still able to see many lavender and other flowers fields.

At night, we went up to the highest mountain in Tokachi. On the top, we went to the onsen (rotenburo, which means outside hot spring) and we saw the reflection of the sunset on the mountains.