Category: Site seeing

We left Hakuba on Friday, catching a taxi back to Nagano and then a train to Kyoto. The first part of the train trip was very scenic since it was on a slower train that travelled down the western side of Japan going through farmland and beautiful scenery. At Nagoya we transferred to the Shinkansen […]

The non-skiers in our group went on a tour to see the Snow Monkeys, we were supposed to see them when Merv and Bruce took Liam’s year group skiing in Japan, but there was too much snow to get into them. Merv and Bruce went skiing for the day and had a great time, we […]

Sunday morning and we walked up to Tokyo Station, with our luggage, looking all the other Japanese pushing around cases. Rosie and I booked the train tickets the day before to make sure we knew what we were doing, so the experience of finding our train was relatively painless. Once on the platform we were […]

Today Merv and Robyn went to the zoo to see Pandas and we took Sally and Shaun on a trip to Yoyogi Park, entering through a back exit, so that we could walk along the park ways and end up at the Meiji Shrine. I set Google for the wrong entrance, which came out quite […]

Today was a tourist day, starting out at the Tsukiji Fish Market. The fun actually starts before this trying to use Google Maps to get to a place. It is very confusing initially to get your starting direction, but once you start it isn’t too bad. It is also interesting when it sends you through […]

After a pleasant 11 hours of flying (1 stop) we all arrived safely in Tokyo, some looking fresher than others. We then spent an hour at the airport getting ourselves ready to travel around Tokyo. Get money, get Pasmo card and buy a train ticket into town. Once on the platform this very nice train […]

I planned this trip around returning to the Yi Peng Festival in Chiang Mai since last year it was a fluke that we arrived in time for the festival and thoroughly enjoyed it. When Debbie and Neil wanted to join us on a golf trip to Thailand, I thought this would be a great experience […]

Rosie and I don’t really like looking at temples and churches so Bruce thought that a trip to the countryside with a nice boat ride to a beach and then a strenuous climb up to a cave would be more fun. We enjoyed the experience a few years ago so I thought it would be […]

Today we did visited the Hellfire Pass Interpretive Centre, which is funded by the Australian Government to commemorate all those POW’s who lost their lives building the Thai-Burma railway in WWII. We started by taking the walk along the railway line through the granite cutting referred to as Hellfire Pass. It is a very moving […]

After a fairly torturous flight from Perth in the middle of the night to Singapore and then Bangkok, we arrived fairly tired and stiff, but we were picked up by Tom’s Taxis and taken to our very nice hotel. The room had a separate bedroom, kitchen and living area which is way above our usual […]