北海道旅行第三日

Day 3, we went to visit Edo Wonderland, or rather, Noboribetsu Olden Times Vilage. We caught a Ninja show on our arrival, seeing many flashy moves such as Ninjas rope-descending from the ceiling, escaping through revolving doors, unearthing through the floorboards, fighting and battling for a piece of secret scroll. Actually the origins of Ninjas was information gathering, and they were employed by Shoguns during Japan's Sengoku (戦国時代) period. There's a maze-trick building there, with slanted floors, tricky mirrors, secret doors and sliding-door-mazes to play around. Another attraction was the お化け屋敷, which is a Haunted Mansion - Monster exhibition thingy.
http://picasaweb.google.com/zhongwei.lu/0804AEdoWonderland

Following which, we visited the bear reserve. Black bears are Hokkaido's fiercest wild animal, which can grow to twice the size of a grown man in the wild.
http://picasaweb.google.com/zhongwei.lu/0804BBearReserve

Then it was a cruise to the Middle Island (中島) in Lake Toya (洞爺), where a natural deer reserve is housed. The lake was all misty and foggy because of the rainy weather brought by the nearby typhoon, but it was all airy and breezy. Rainy weather rendered the muddy forest unsafe for tourist exploration, so we had black sesame ice-cream and left.
http://picasaweb.google.com/zhongwei.lu/0804CLakeToyaCruise

Went to a milk ice-cream making farm after that. We formed a team of 5, making some delicious ice-cream using simple tools such as: 2 bowls, ice-cubes, fresh-milk, cream, sugar and salt. The ice-cream was superb, but it was pretty hard work to keep whipping the stuff for 15 mins, and to scrape the coagulated-frozen stuff and rewhip it. >_<
http://picasaweb.google.com/zhongwei.lu/0804DMilkIceCream

Returned to Lake Toya for hot springs, and a small fireworks display in the night.
http://picasaweb.google.com/zhongwei.lu/0804ELakeToyaHotel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wQIgH5SEbE