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Euro Music Trip

mai 2023 - mai 2024
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  • VoyageurEuro Music Trip
    Jour 369

    Ha Long Bay!!!

    10 mai, Vietnam ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

    Ha Long bay is sooo cool! We spent two nights there on a cruise and it was wicked. When we first arrived at the harbour i was a little concerned because some of the boats there were looking pretty old and rickety. Our boat was good though, it was made of wood and did look slightly worn on the outisde but on the inside it was really nice! On our first day we went to Sung Sot cave, which was alright, and Titop island which was crap. Titop is a swimming island but it was so polluted and crowded that i didnt even want to go in, we were ready to leave after like 10 minutes which really shocked the guide. I think if he saw the beach we go to everyday hed understand why we were so unimpressed. The sunset that night was absolutely breathtaking, we sat up on the top of the boat and enjoyed many cocktails soaking it all in. Ha long bay is the second wonder of the world ive seen this trip and it totally held up! Easily one of the best sunsets of the trip, up there with the pyramids and the special athens hill. Im keen to go see more of the natural wonders now, imagine if theyre all this good!
    After the sunset we got served a super yummy dinner, listened to the host sing karaoke, and then went squidding for a bit but didnt catch anything. The karaoke thing was weird coz the host just sang and then turned it off without letting anyone else have a shot. Mum and i were keen to do iris but had to do it on the balcony by ourselves afterwards ahaha.

    The next day we went on another boat to do a day trip of activities. First we went to an "untouched" cave with a seat at the front and a footpath going through it, then we went canoeing to a lovely empty beach that looked like it was straight out of a postcard. When we stopped for lunch the staff opened up a gate on the top deck of the boat and said we were able to jump off and go for a swim!! One of the people on our tour was a pro cliff diver and he was doing some crazy cool stuff, i tried to copy him but didnt get very close ahaha :/ . After lunch we went to check out a pearl farm which was absolutely fascinating. Pearls are made from little bits of debris like sand getting stuck inside the membrane of an oyster and pearl farms make pearls by opening up oysters and surgically inserting little beads. We got to see a guy inseminting the oysters which was so sick. Highly recommend two nights in ha long bay, the day trip activities are so much better than the stuff on the overnight itinerary.    En savoir plus

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  • VoyageurEuro Music Trip
    Jour 365

    What Sapa dude

    6 mai, Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C

    The drive from hanoi to sapa takes about 6 hours but it flew right by coz we were on the best bus ever! It was a bed bus so instead of seats there're two rows of bunk beds and you get to just lie down and sleep the whole time. The Sapa town centre was very different from how i expected it to be, it felt more like a european ski town than anything youd expect to see in asia. The train station was massive and looked like a romanian cathedral or something, the trees were all tall pines and the rest of the buildings were either huge modern hotels or wooden hillside cottage type accomodation, it was a pretty discordant vibe but quite cool. The coolest thing about sapa is the clouds that waft through the town, they come out of nowhere and move fast with super whispy and defined edges, it was like we were in that poison smoke area from hunger games two, very mysterious and ethereal. There are also often clouds obstructing the view of the valley floor below which made the town feel like it was a floating magical sky land. We spent our first afternoon exploring. We went to a nice lush mossy garden where we got to shoot a crossbow and then went for a drink at a bar that had a big statue of moana.

    The clouds that i initially loved ended up having quite a large impact on the trip, it was pretty grey most of the time, visibility was usually not great and it often rained. On our second day we braved the rain and went for a guided walking tour into the valley to check out some of the local villages. It was ok but it was mostly just people hassling us to buy things the whole time. On the third day the weather wasnt good enough to see fancipan (the building on the top of the mountain - sapas main attraction) so we just roamed around and got harassed by a crazy local hawker girl the whole day. I eventually got fed up with the girl coz she was saying stuff like "im just going to keep following you around until you buy something" so i yelled at her and then she got real mad and said i was a mean boy and no one would ever marry me (ya hate to see it). We took taxis for the rest of our excursions coz we didnt want to run into her again lol.    En savoir plus

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  • VoyageurEuro Music Trip
    Jour 362

    Hanoi with mum and dad!!

    3 mai, Vietnam ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C

    Ive officially reunited with mum and dad after over a year! It been great to see them again, so much has happened this year and theres been lots to catch up on. Weve been in hanoi for the past 3 days which has been super fun. Our first day was spent roaming around the old quarter where we're staying, we went to an egg coffee cafe (i got an egg beer which was quite weird but tasty), checked out den ngoc son temple and st joseph cathedral, and then had a really nice street bahn mi for lunch. On the way home Mum fell victim to the classic backwards blue direction radar on maps which meant we got to experience the cathedral a couple of times while we walked around in circles. After a year of that little blue thing sending spencer and i the wrong way constantly it was funny to see mum and dad struggle with it for the first time ahaha.

    For dinner we went to an alleyway bar where you sit right next to a train track! The alley is really narrow, probably only 5 or 6 metres wide, so when the trains came through they almost completely filled up the space. The bars set out tables and chairs over the tracks and then 5 minutes before a train was scheduled all the waiters would frantically pack everything up and make everyone squeeze right up against the wall, it was very crazy. Id love to meet the maniac local that decided itd be a good idea to open the first restaurant there, everyone mustve thought they were completely daft.

    The next day mum and i went for lunch at a restaurant thats very famous because obama and anthony bourdain had a meal there together. The restaurant is very busy and they have loads of copies of the same photo from anthony bourdain's instagram up on all the walls.

    In the arfternoon we went on a guided walking tour around the old quarter which was very interesting. The guide was really informative and took us to loads of intersting places including the cho dong xuan markets, "the best street donut stall in hanoi", some deep dark alleys where poor locals live, and a rooftop bar. We had no idea about the rooftop bars before the tour but ended up going to several more during our stay coz they were amazing! We also learned all about the billion different times vietnam has been invaded during the last 200 years, theyve been at war constantly which i never knew. For dinner we went to the insanely lively beer street and had a lovely time people watching from a bar with a balcony.

    Our third day was spent largely just retracing our steps from the previous day because mum and dad saw a shop on the walking tour they really liked but couldnt remember where it was. We never found it but the day wasnt a total waste coz we got to see a digger driver put his digger back on a truck using a technique thats going to put all ramp makers out of business. At night we went for a fantastic dinner at a michelin selected restaurant called highway 4, which we all absolutely loved. We ate crickets and ants and all kinds of weird stuff and it was delicious! I think well probably go back it was so good, we tipped the waiters and everything ahahah.    En savoir plus

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  • VoyageurEuro Music Trip
    Jour 358

    Fukuoka (baseball and surf beach)

    29 avril, Japon ⋅ ☁️ 25 °C

    Fukuoka was a perfect place to end my month in japan. Thereve been a lot of times this month where ive gone somewhere to eat or do something only to abort my plans because of a huge queue or the thing being sold out. Not in fukuoka!! ive been able to go around doing anything i want because there arent any tourists here :)). First day i went to a baseball game which was very interesting. I was a little concerned that the atmosphere at the game would suck because it was on at 1pm on a monday arvo but i needntve worried because the stadium was packed and full of energy, goes to show how crazy Japanese people are about baseball. The actual game got off to a slow start, i didnt realise how rare it was for batters to actually hit the ball in baseball but in the first hour i think maybe 3 people managed to do it. The game picked up heaps towards the end tho, the fukuoka hawks had been down by 2 runs for most of the game but ended up winning because a guy hit a home run when two people were already on base. Baseball is so exciting when people get on base, everyone in the crowd was on the edge of their seats whenever it happened (super rarely). Two other things that i thought were cool were the beer girls that walk around with big kegs of beer on their backs and that everyone in the crowd blows up balloons and then lets them loose at the same time when the hawks win. The beer girls pour a super frothy pint but I managed to sneak in two big cans of gin and soda so it was fine.

    The next day i got souffle pancakes again. Id been dreaming about getting more pancakes all trip coz the ones i got in tokyo were soooo good but id completely given up hope because every time i went to a souffle cafe thered be like a 2 hour long queue ... Cheers fukuoka!

    On the last day i took an hour long bus to go check out a beach i thought looked cool and to my surprise there was surf!! The spot was called palm beach and its on the coast that faces korea so it probably never breaks but its been pretty stormy here lately there so there was probably a pretty big swell. The waves were kinda like metams which was nice coz it meant i wasnt bothered that i didnt have a board. I was freezing as soon as i got off the bus because it was windy and rainy but i forced myself to go for a quick swim anyway coz i hadnt been for a swim in japan yet. For my last dinner i got sushi and splurged on some expensive bits of fatty tuna which were so soft it was essentially just paste, idk if i prefer it over normal tuna but it was good.    En savoir plus

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  • VoyageurEuro Music Trip
    Jour 356

    Okayama and hiroshima pt 2

    27 avril, Japon ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C
  • VoyageurEuro Music Trip
    Jour 355

    Okayama and hiroshima

    26 avril, Japon ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    Okayama was kinda refreshing, just in the way that it felt a bit less full on japanese than everywhere else ive been so far. They have loads of vietnamese and Italian restaurants here and therere no tourists or queues to get into the places i want to go to. I was incredibly slack here and only saw a park, a castle and the statue of the peach kid with the off centre penis (https://youtu.be/hshz2LhxuPY?si=dBAfRKU3WSFYVuTP). The highlight of okayama was the sashimi restaurant i went to, they serve a kind of deconstructed okayama style sushi (bara zushi) which is pretty much just a heap of pre sauced/seasoned sashimi pieces all heaped on a rice bowl but they put a bit of orange zest on the rice which makes it taste sooooo nice! The place was called fukuzushi and i ate there for both dinners coz i loved the orange zest thing so much ahaha.

    After okayama i went to hiroshima. The first thing i did when i arrived was go see the peace museum. It was filled with loads and loads of horrific photos and stories from survivors of the stomic bomb. The stories were heavy and some photos were super graphic. There was a section of the museum dedicated to objects that had been fused together from the heat of the blast which was really interesting, for example there was a clump of glass that used to be a tray of milk bottles sitting on someones porch, the blurb under them said they were sitting about 1km from the explosion and they were explosed to a heat of over 1000 degrees. Everything in the museum did a really good job of showing how insanely insense it all was. There was also a section dedicated to sadako sasaki, the paper crane girl we learned about in primary school. Some of the paper cranes she made were on display in the museum and they were absolutely tiny, apparently she grew so weak she couldnt do big folds so she used chopsticks and made tiny ones instead, which seems way harder but idk.
    By the time i left the museum i felt a bit numb and tingly so I stopped for a beer at a park overlooking the atomic bomb dome and the T bridge. The T bridge was what the pilot was aiming for when he dropped the atomic bomb. It was pretty surreal sitting there knowing that the most destructive force ever used was deployed right above were i was sitting. For the rest of the day i just roamed around and ate okonomiyaki. Hiroshima style okonomiyaki is probably just as good as the osaka style, its more like a crepe filled with lots of vegies and egg. They forgot to put kimchi in my okonomiyaki and were super reluctant to take it off my bill so i had to fight the waitress about that for a bit lol.    En savoir plus

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