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…
Chinese cuisine is very diverse, and during our more than one month there, we tried lots of its flavours. Since we have been travelling on a budget, most of our experiences…
September 13-17, 2018 After spending the rest of the Hilton Honors points for splendid two nights at Hilton Foshan, we had to return to backpackers reality. To forget being upgraded to a…
Travel period: September 05-09, 2018 Time was running fast, and we almost reached the end of the China journey. As the last spot before heading to Hong Kong, we picked up…