After an 8 hour delay and a ride in the probably oldest and worst plane ever, we made it to China, got ripped off by a taxi driver and finally settled into a rather noisy and not-so-clean backpackers hostel. What can we say – it’s Beijing. It’s humongous. There’s more than 63’000 registered taxis (and we didn’t find a single nice...
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We loved Japan. Maybe because it is so funky. Here’s some random facts to prove its funkiness. 1. They like Sushi Of course they do. We do too. But only looking at the sheer amount of raw fish they down, you can see how much they really like it. We did our best to keep up (we had Sushi on 13 out of 16 days in Japan), but the piles of plates they left behind...
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Fukushima – not the first place you’d think of going to for a vacation. In fact, I can’t think of any place with such a negative connotation to its name for the last few years (with the exception of a few war-riddled countries maybe). Nevertheless, it seemed a logic place to go when heading north from Tokyo, and since we’d read just as many positive things...
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The small town with the name Yoshino lies on top of a mountain in the Nara Prefecture surrounded by cherry trees. There is a huge old gate half way up to the top. It once was the gate between earth and the spiritual world, and history tells that pilgrims went there to leave everything earthly behind them and come closer to heaven. It was a place where spirituality...
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When planning our Japan trip, we wanted to buy a rail pass and travel through Japan by train and busses. Our dear friend Manuel then came up with the excellent idea of renting a camper van instead, avoiding overbooked hotels and enabling us to travel more freely. We got one, and hit the road with Mount Fuji in mind. The beauty of this mountain has inspired a lot of...
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