by CNNGo staff
Two years ago, we wrote about the hot-spring-loving monkeys in Jigokudani's Monkey Park, a snow mountain in Nagano.
It inspired Rachel Geesa, an art teacher in Seoul from Indiana, United States, to venture on a trip to the area just “to see some monkeys sitting in hot tubs.”
She submitted an iReport for the assignment Travel photo of the day. Here is how she recalls the adventure.
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The photo that was selected as CNN’s Travel Photo of the Day for October 1, 2012.