October 24-30, 2018 Kyushu is such an amazing place, offering everything that you would expect from Japan. Plenty of temples, shrines, castles, and WWII reminiscences. As well as volcanos, gardens and hot…
October 18-23, 2018 Niseko mountains are first known as a ski resort. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean it offers only the world famous powder snow and winter entertainment. But the truth is, in…
October 15-17, 2018 Hitchhiking is an excellent way of travel, you meet local people, you learn basic words, you save money. But sometimes you don’t get exactly where you wanted to go,…
October 12-15, 2018 Otaru is a lovely city. It has plenty of European style old houses from the beginning of the 20th century, which is not so common in Japan. It is…
October 11, 2018 One of the must-do experiences in Japan is to stay in a capsule hotel. Since we didn’t try it during our Tokyo-Ósaka-Kyoto-Hiroshima trip three years ago, it came to…
October 5-11, 2018 Great week in Shari was over, and we got heading to Lake Mashu in Akan Mashu National park. Equipped with paper and pen, we set our hitchhiking base at…
October 2, 2018 Climbing the Mount Shari (1547 m) on the Shiretoko peninsula was not challenging only for the hike itself, but also for the way to get to the trailhead. We…
September 25 – October 4, 2018 After one week in Sapporo, we hit the road and started a month round trip around Hokkaido. Our first stop was Shiretoko national park in the…
September 19-25, 2018 After two and a half month spent constantly on a road we looked forward to a rest in Sapporo. Originally we did not want to stay the whole week,…
It would be foolish from us to try to describe or even evaluate modern China based on our only visit. However, we can write down what we saw and what we…