Walking through Japan 100km to find the Toyohira river
I am right now at Mizu Nara bridge and right under is a Makum Manayi River is going around. I’m about to making the last kilometers at overall I was checking around uh many beautiful place including waterfalls, lakes, beautiful campsites and river sites and then now about to finish my journey. I’m near to Separo and overall it will takes 100 kilometers of walking with heavy backpacks. It’s like 30 35 kilos. Depends on how much food I carry or water and something. I’m about to finish today. I get my last 7 kilometers which uh I think I will able to make it in maybe in 3 hours. So I’m not rushing and I have heavy stuff. So it will be dark is now is 5 5:15 in the afternoon. It will be dark about 2 hours later. There’s no matters. We had headlamp. I want to get to my camping spot which I was checking and it will be almost at the middle of Separo. And then also I will set up my camp beside the river. And then this called Toyoho Hiro River. So let’s get down this 7 kilometers and get there finally. I started this journey two weeks ago exactly. So at overall 100 kilometers I will stop different location spend one or two night. My last journey if you watch the video it was a continuous 20 kilometers walk without water without food heavy rain everything we got today is beautiful weather we got water I have coffee we have some food and then yeah I just need to get there so let’s go so this building actually Separo City University part of the park campus. So going around turn around this building a little bit and then going back down a little bit and then we continue up to Separo toward I already missed this 30 kilos backpack. The weather actually pretty friendly right now cuz all day long it was about 30° C. So, as it gets like 5:00 p.m. right now, it’s getting a little bit cooler going back about uh 26 or 25. Hey, you are always loud. They are a crow and then it happens. They would attack humans. They coming close flying beside you and then if you are not aware I don’t know why they bite you. I don’t know but have to keep an eye on them. According to the map they have to go this way toward river about 5 kilometers from here. Uh looks we get a nice road. My experience during the journey uh I need to get sometimes for stop for a break like five or 10 minutes because these heavies don’t allow me for continuous walk. I think it’s time because I really need to take a pee. Beer alarm. Severero City University Art Park. Here we go. Keep turn right and then actually we get a straight weight almost. We left about 4 and a half kilome. Just follow this road 2.5 kilometers straight first of all and survive humidity. It’s about 90% humidity and a lot of mosquitoes suddenly until now I haven’t made mosquitoes but right now they coming. It’s about 6:00 p.m. Sun is about to going down. Hello boys. How is going? I’m just taking a little bit walk if you don’t mind. You’re looking good. Anyway, have a good evening. some little stream going around down there. I really wish to check but we got late and then it’s getting dark and also the vegetation is a I cannot see through. So might we get it for next time? What a peaceful place. Lot of birds. My backpack’s not getting any easier by anyway. I thought it will be just a easy 5k. That is never easy with these guys. Oh man, I can’t stand it. Just one minute. Oh, I could spend hours beside that kind of streams. It’s going to be separating here slowly. Sky is beautiful. We still get about 3 kilometer until the river. Slowly we get there. Just let’s go down there and then there is already toy river. I have to turn right and then following a road still but soon we will see the river. are lucky we get some daylight still. Nice park area. Just following that road. Might 2 kilometer and be there. It was not too bad actually. 7 kilometer for today. I made it about 5 kilometer already. Yeah, these backpacks is all the time is pushing my shoulders. And then I just feel I want to take a 5m minute break and I will do but anyway we will get there finally. It’s in 2 kilometer away from the 100k. What a journey though in two weeks. Wow. But the 2day 7 km is nothing compared for this 20 kilometers continues 3 days ago. I don’t recommend I don’t recommend it for anyone. 2.4 kilometers where I want to be and around there get a campsite. So I just have to follow this road here straight 2.4 4 2.5 kilometers. Oh, we can make it. Going to be dark. Go say 30 minute probably will takes for me 1 hour. Last 2K. Can’t breathe. [Applause] It’s darkness. I’m right above her river. There’s not too much to see. It’s a really dark. Some source of light is coming from there, from the city, but it’s really far. That will be good to see tomorrow in the daylight because it’s nice river. There are many rocks, beautiful landscape. So tomorrow we will look around. Definitely public toilet for fresh water if we need it. Also, we got a wedding machine with a lot of good stuff if I might get thirsty. Might get some good juice for a black coffee. I made my tent. That was hectic a little bit. Those birds are insane. What are these guys over there? [Applause] It’s two dog, two cat. No. No way. It’s a It’s a fox. It’s two fox. We are here close to Toya here river. As I said, I want to look around here a little bit. I can hear the sound already. And then let’s take a look a little bit. It’s uh it looks pretty good. Rocky around this area. There also is a kind of a tourist attraction here. Anyway, let’s take a look. I just need to figure out how to get there. It’s about about 15 m away down there. The map is not showing me any road directly down there to the river. So, I just find this spot here. I’m trying to across really carefully. It’s about 6:00 p.m. evening. We get some light. It will be enough to take a look for this river. Oh, here is a river. Beautiful rocky. But there are a road somewhere down there because there are people about 35 m away. I’m just checking. No, anything is walking on my legs. There are ants. Sometimes they are like 2 cm big black ants. They bite a hard. Check this out. Toyo her river. I’m trying to get down a little bit. Maybe I’m able to get down there and then also can we come back? Maybe we can we can come back. I left my I left my backpacks on the road. Yeah, it’s easy. You can go down there. Oh, here we are. River. There are people over there. Beautiful rocky stuff. I really like that. I wish to jump in. Yesterday I checked the temperature of the river. It’s not actually cold but evening if I will stay in the water definitely is getting a little bit chilly. Look at this big guy. Wow. Like my backpack. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. Hey, Heat. Heat. Heat. Look at this stuff between the rocks. It’s just a beautiful geology here. Beautiful iron oxidation [Music] 100k is done. We are here middle of the separo river. That was a journey to be honest with those backpacks. Oh, we got heavy rain. We get we got sunshine. We got no water. We got no food sometimes. But yeah, glad to meet here. Such a nice place. I get a perfect weather for today and then it’s forecast all for the for this week or probably I will spend here couple days looking around and enjoying myself. My body is will recover. We got a good shape haircut maybe and then I just get back to shape. I will lose probably about 5 kilos. Heat. Heat. It’s a big cloud. I want to across somehow but there is a huge crevice going. It’s getting deep. The waterfall is pretty heavy. Oh heck. Just over there is about 10 m. But look at this. just like this crab lines going between them. It’s getting real really deep. I mean like 50 cm half a m. But now my class is I’m not in the west suit. I just thought I’m easily across. Can I do just like one line and one line step by step? I’m just afraid [Applause] the water will blow me away. It’s not that slippery, luckily. All right, one more step there. I think I think I can’t make it. It’s getting deep. Oh my. The next crab is is around there. I don’t have a 2 and 1/2 m step. I think you can make it. Yes. One more. One more. Kravis there. Okay. That was hectic. I was afraid if water blew me away or my stuff as no matter my clothes get wet but just my stuff. Okay, we got here. Very nice water river. So amazing rock lines is going around underwater. just like a lines and between two lines is there is a like half a meter deep. The rocks looks beautiful. It’s getting evening though. Amazing. It’s going fast. full of bad drop. Very nice geology. What’s a frog Bunny Bologn spaghetti feels good.
Finally I arrived in Sapporo after a 100km walk .
That was a journey through forest mountains lakes and waterfalls.
It wasn’t an easy task , if you don’t believe it , try it yourself with a 35 kg backpack 😄
The location is Hokkaido, Toyohira river Japan.
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