Waterfalls

Sunday: We had a lazy morning on our first full day off since arriving in Maizuru. Made breakfast, did some laundry, boring stuff.

In the afternoon we took the train from Higashi-Maizuru to Nishi-Maizuru (like east and west) to meet up with Erica. She took us for a drive in the car that we might be buying to the countrysid. We went deep into the woods to a secluded area. There was a bunch of cars around which was odd because Erica had never run into anybody there. We looked around for a while and then made our way up some stairs eventually reaching a house and, behind that, a waterfall. Strangely, as we approached the waterfall we noticed some naked dudes standing around and then running behind the house to get changed quickly.

They were nice enough people. We were allowed to go check out the waterfall without any kind of hassle. Our best guess is that it was a religious group of some sort... there were about 20 people there of all ages and both genders... it was a weird moment. Nice waterfall though.

Next we made our way to a cafe by the river (I should learn the name of the river or maybe the cafe...). It was a cool little place where they sell clothing and trinkets from India, Thailand, Laos, Phillipines, etc,. It had beatnik, or maybe hippie-ish, kind of atmosphere and also delicious cheesecake.

Afterwards we made our way through some more countryside and into a very rural town where there was rumoured to be another waterfall. This waterfall was called the "not moving waterfall", which was reassuring. This was a very beautiful area with a babbling brook!? !!! (Georgia and I were pumped... Erica not as much).

All in all, we had a lot of fun and were able to check out some things that we would probably never have gotten to see if not for Erica so we are very grateful.