These posts are affecting Mrs Blog's cognitive functions. After reading two consecutive episodes on weird food...she decided to have a bowl of granola with lashings of double cream for breakfast.
Having survived a bento box full of dead things looking back at him Mr Blog was all ears and eyes for the tour of the tea plantation. Just as well because there was a mountain (pun intended) of information to absorb.
(To assist the reader it is summarised in the bullets below)
- Eastern Mountain Teas is a plantation on a big mountain with a trail up it of 4.8 km
- At the top of the mountain is a Shinto shrine
- Japanese people like to visit shrines at the top of mountains repeatedly
- Records are kept which show that two people have been up Tea mountain 20,000 times
- One old fella managed his 2,000th ascent when he was 94
- One old lady and her daughter were walking up the trail while we were there
- They didn't make it because the old lady took a tumble
- We were part of an impromptu rescue involving four tourists, one guide, two tea plantation workers and a small Suzuki people carrier designed for 8 people
- With 9 people it makes sense to put the youngest (the old lady's daughter) in the boot, squash the shaken old lady in between two plantation workers and hope for the best
- Everyone was very happy when we got back down to the plantation
- Not everyone was happy with the tea because it tastes very bitter
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