London to Bangkok
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The long awaited start to our Asia trip! And 'Long' was definitely the word to describe today. 3 flights with stops in Amsterdam and Guangzhou (China), serious bum ache from sitting down for so long, Czytaj więcej
The long awaited start to our Asia trip! And 'Long' was definitely the word to describe today. 3 flights with stops in Amsterdam and Guangzhou (China), serious bum ache from sitting down for so long, Czytaj więcej
We finally arrived in Bangkok, exhausted and jetlagged but excited to be here. Our very friendly but totally useless taxi driver took us from the airport to the wrong hostel (she did provide free Czytaj więcej
We started off with a breakfast of iced coffees and Thai style fried chicken while it poured with rain outside. Luckily, it had stopped by the time we finished so we could go off exploring.
First we Czytaj więcej
Unfortunately our master plan of getting over the jetlag in Bangkok didn't work out at all, we still go to bed at 4 o'clock in the morning and being spacey for most of the day, anyway we pushed Czytaj więcej
A 6 hour flight later we arrived to the second destination of our Asia trip: Tokyo. We could only check in at 4pm but we decided to head to our neighbourhood, Komagome with our big luggage and chill Czytaj więcej
Our first full day in Japan and finally we managed to get out of bed at a reasonable time to make the most of it!
First we headed to Shibuya, a famous district of Tokyo where there is a crazy Czytaj więcej
After discovering some of 'new' Tokyo we decided to see older, more traditional parts.
In the morning we took a train to Asakusa where we straight away found old fashioned streets and much smaller Czytaj więcej
Typhoon Faxai threw a spanner in the works of our plan to visit Mount Takoa today, the strong wind and heavy rain in the early hours of the morning messed up the trains for the day so we decided to Czytaj więcej
We exchanged our vouchers for our Japan Rail passes and boarded the Shinkansen bullet train to Takayama. Aside from obviously being very fast, the train journey was beautiful and our first look at the Czytaj więcej
Hida Folk Village is a skanzen type place 40 minute walk away from Takayama. It is a place to preserve traditional houses, lifestyles and professions. The buildings have been moved from different Czytaj więcej