One of the sights for which Japan's
Aso valley — where Mellow Monk's
tea is grown — is famous is the
unkai, the "sea of clouds," which happens when fog rolls into the valley and fills it to the rim. Here are a couple of clickable pics of this beautiful, most mellowing phenomenon:


There is a whole page of pictures of Aso's
unkai here. You can also see a
3-D map of the Aso Valley — which, technically speaking, is actually a horseshoe-shaped
caldera.
—Mellow Monk
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