Hangzhou was nice the last time I came here, apart from the areas that were huge muddy holes in the ground with all the buildings removed on both ....
Now I am in Osaka, its only 30 minutes from Kyoto on the cheap $5 train. Therefore, I had time to visit all the temples in Kyoto this morning befo....
Right now I have done 55,800 steps today. Close to a record. I still have to go and find dinner, so I will set a new personal best. Exciting times....
Tonight I wandered off in the direction of the west central district with nothing in partuclar in mind other than finding dinner. Little did I kno....
Kaohsiung has a city mountain. It is called either longevity mountain, or monkey mountain. Whilst as you will see monkey mountain is apt, I think ....
The rain did indeed come as predicted. I think its only supposed to last today. It never stopped raining, but then never rained hard either. Still....
I was surprised to find that some of the temples and surrounding gardens are open at night. By open I mean, you can walk all around the buildings ....
Today I went to Nara, one of the top tourist cities in all of Japan. It is a much bigger city than I realised, I discovered this once on top of a ....
Listed as a tourist attraction is the ancient pottery street called Ci Qi Kou. I expected this to be a modern re creation of an ancient street wit....