Today we got into the Audi Airline and flew to Africa for a safari at Kilimanjaro. At least it almost felt like that, but we only went to the Fuji Safari Park at Fuji-san.

It was a beautiful day with clear blue sky, or piikan as a Japanese friend (Mash-san) taught me it is called in “real” Japanese. We arrived quite early at the Fuji Safari Park and while I parked the car, Chie bought all the tickets needed to enter by car and by Jungle Bus.

The best part of the day though was meeting with Leo, a 2 months old baby lion. He was the warmest, cutest thing I have seen in a very long time. The idea about just keep holding him and run away with him popped up in my head many times during the short time I could hold him. It is really difficult to understand that something so small (only 4 kg) and cute will soon grow up to something as powerful and quite dangerous as a full-grown lion.

After meeting with Leo the day at the Fuji Safari Park was over. We drove back towards Tokyo. But we made a short stop at the Gotemba Premium Outlet. Where we walked around for a while. I found a T-Fal water boiler for the office and The North Face Gore-Tex pants for snowboarding. Both things I have been looking for. The North Face pants was a real bargain, on top of the Outlet price was a 20% rebate. So it ended at 33000 JPY, or around 2700 SEK.

It was a long, exciting and very fun day. It ended at Ochanokosaisai, a local restaurant just around the corner from where we live 🙂