鹿嵐山(かならせやま) This little fellow is a fun quarter a day hike. It is fairly easy with only few steep rises. Allow about one and a half hours from Oita by highway; this hike is not at all convenient by public transportation. The path runs through a small range of mountains and can be entered from either of the ends.
So basically this hike is not a round trip. You leave your car to one end climb and return. However, I recommend to make it a round trip by tramping it first from end to end and then returning back by the road.
The main attraction is not the 758.1m peak. This track has to present some peculiar stone formations to the area. Fraction of the pillar stones can bee seen from the photo above.
The stone walls can be climbed and they often have ropes. But a word of warning, they are very narrow to walk on and can cause dizziness.
Perhaps three weeks more and everything will be green at this same spot. This time brownish was the dominating color.
We didn't stop to snitch someone's fruits though the photo might so suggest. These grapefruit-like balls are called "Hassaku" and are a specialty of southern Japan. An old lady who was grubbing on a crop field by the road gave them to us, saying "There's no way I can eat all of them by myself". Glad to help... The taste is just lovely.
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