Hokkaido in July
We had such a fun trip to Hokkaido last week. Every where we went was amazingly beautiful! Hokkaido is part of Japan, but it has a different feel to it. Big open spaces and wide roads. Its quite rural and we saw cows grazing in pastures for the first time in Japan. Hokkaido is famous for it milk, cheese and of course - soft ice cream! DAY 1 - We flew to Asahikawa and rented a car. I knew it was Lavender Season in Hokkaido, but I was surprised by how much lavender there was EVERYWHERE. Lining the roads, all over the hills, in the shops, and even in the ice cream. Our stop was to visit the Asahiyama Zoo. Very nice zoo! One of the unique features of this zoo was that they had several exhibits where people can get a very close look at the animals. Varied level exhibits so you can see underwater, or for the seals, they can swim up a tube! In the penguin exhibit there was a tube that went underwater through the middle of the exhibit and the you could watch the penguins swimming all aro...