" It was nice in the hot water and the idea that this monkey would attack me, when I approached him too close, didn't bother me really much. I felt one of them and they seem to accept me."

North-west of Tokyo, at 850 meters above sealevel, ' The Valley of the Hell' is located. The climate in this area is almost antartic.
The Japanese Snowmonkeys are used to hunt for food in snowstorms in the mountains at tempeartures as low as -20ºC , but as hard their live is; in the morning they have the pleasure of their live. Every morning they take a bad in the hotwater sources . The temperature in the sources is 40ºC, at that moment the temperature outside the water is still -20ºC.
Due to the extreme difference between the air and water temperature, they get in a drugged state.
 




 


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