Going Alone

The video below shows the rest of this adventure to the abandoned Shinto shrine. Japanese “yamabiru” mountain leech Japanese Mountain Leeches (Haemadipsa zeylanica or yama-biru as they are called in Japanese) may sometimes be encountered during warm months when hiking through wet locations in the mountains of central Japan. Blood-sucking leeches are attracted to warm bodies which they detect and hone-in on like heat-seeking missiles. The most common form of leech locomotion i

Japanese Mountain Leeches (Haemadipsa zeylanica or yama-biru as they are called in Japanese) may sometimes be encountered during warm months when hiking through wet locations in the mountains of central Japan. Blood-sucking leeches are attracted to warm bodies which they detect and hone-in on like heat-seeking missiles. The most common form of leech locomotion is an inchworm-like gait which causes the leech to measure the earth with its body as it moves along. When in a hurry