Well, I definitely wanted to get away from the crowds and all I needed to do was trek into the sparsely populated interior of the Kii Peninsula. I wouldn't say the week has been restful, but it has been restorative, the bustle of Osaka and Kyoto ebbing first with Mount Koya and then with my walks this week along the Kumano Kodo trails.
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