Fuji san ki chadai!


The trip started in ways that I never expected , I will put it this way I never expected it to start. We had planned it for Saturday morning and it started in the afternoon. Why because it was never meant to start but suddenly we had a calling ,some divine force , I believed it to be the Fuji san's intervention and the combination of beautiful lakes that was calling us to climb this beautiful mountain. There were forces that we later realized that really existed . These forces were the one that made you strive to reach till the top when you know you can’ t take an extra step , there are forces that made you calm when you look down those slopes and realize that one wrong step and that's the end . You see those people from all ages you are hit by a reality. That some thing really exists , maybe just a faith in Fuji san that it will not hurt you. And it gave us faith too.

So that’s it for the divine part , but then I want to tell you things really started bad. We had not done any preparation before that day , and when we decided to go we realized how less time we had in our hands. All of us ran to the Donkey’s and did our basic shopping( head light , gloves , caps, energy drinks , ) and somethings at the 100 yen shop. The things had already started rolling . Anshul took the wrong train to reach Shinjuku Station and had his cell’s battery on low. Shinjuku station as it is a like "Kumbh ka mela" back in India , millions cross it daily and there are trillions of spots to get lost here . But we finally manged to find him through some of Nipun’s beautiful flower ladies(that is another story). So now we were three and waiting for Ajay to come. Though he had no phone we finally found him , how? Actually he found the guys who were going with us , whom he had never met.

So now we were ready to board the train and go to Matsuda …..ShinMatsuda -> Gotamba …Subhashiri(5th Station). We missed the last bus at Gotamba and had to take a taxi till Subhashiri fifth station.

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