Asia travel tips to Japan, Indonesia (Bali), China, Russia, and more.
*This post includes an affiliate link to accommodation 3 Gili Islands experiences – Gili Air, Gili Meno, Gili Trawangan – are these Lombok islands next to Bali worth visiting and which one is the best?
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Japan is a large country full of cities that most Western tourists have never heard of. Many of these cities, with their charming old towns, are bursting with sights and experiences.Fukui is not one of them.
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We’re sitting on the floor of an old soy sauce factory’s warehouse, eating a meal we warmed up in the microwave.This nearly two-hundred-year-old building is located in Japan’s first capital, Nara. Today, this meticulously restored building operates as the Naramachi Hostel in the neighborhood of the same name.This is where we’ll lay our heads on
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*Contains affiliate links to accommodations The train from Nagoya arrives at Takayama station with us on board.Finally.Not that trains in Japan would ever be late — they definitely aren’t — but certain Western travelers might be. After spending nine nights in Nagoya, we are slowly heading to the mountains of Takayama to celebrate Christmas in
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*This post contains affiliate links Thousands of restaurants in Tokyo – there’s no shortage of options. Countless dining spots are one of the best things about the biggest city in the world.You might even come across a couple of places famous for Hollywood movies. Here are a couple of those as well as some local
Smoking good Tokyo restaurants Read More »
Culinary Traveler’s Fear Factor: This gives me the creeps. Enjoy the ride! It’s banging on my head, do not eat that, DO NOT EAT THAT. And yet I do. I’m hungry.And too curious. Especially the latter one. I eagerly sample new dishes everywhere. Sometimes, my choices don’t hit the mark. But if I don’t like
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*This post contains Booking.com affiliate links A Briton and two Finns are sitting in the only open bar in Takayama village in Japan.It’s New Year’s Eve.The city is deserted. On a silent night, everything turns upside down and suddenly we are in Kurosawa’s Dreams. But at least this is not Skyfall.
Takayama – a New Year’s Eve like in a movie Read More »
Have you noticed, that eventually, you will bump into the best guys again? I mean those people you meet on your travels and wonder if you ever see again. Then you meet them on the other side of the world in the most surprising ways. This time, in Nagoya, Japan, there were fewer surprises.If we
Adopting friends in Nagoya Read More »