7 Days Hotel Plus Kochi

... br>The bus took about one hour and took us on a long and windy road through beautiful green valleys up to a small settlement in the mountains where we caught the rope-way ( cable-car ) to the most common start point for the grueling hike to the peak. Some people do hike all the way from the base, but it is apparently, very difficult and quite dangerous, takes over two hours and ascends 600m up poorly kept trails. Considering everyone was nearly dying by the time we got ...

... view was quick to disappear though as we went into a long series of tunnels. I arrived to hard rain in Kochi, which matched my mood. After a rough night in the business hotel and finding out my CF photo card aquired a virus (damn Hostel PCs), I was pretty irritated and vaguely sad. This blog will have to do without photos as I'd rather not inadvertantly infect other computers. The good news is the virus doesn't appear to affect my camera or ...

ciao a tutti e che bello vedere un po' di commenti!! solo un rapido aggiornamento, ieri ho fatto i mille mila gradini (1800 e passa + il ritorno) del tempio Kompirasan, stupendo davvero, mentre la notte l'ho passata in una casa molto molto giapponese in mezzo al bosco e sulla riva di un fiume ...

Primo traghetto che personalmente a me da una particolare libidine caricarci la moto e navigare per mare ogni tanto. Fiondo nell' isola di Shikoku , l' isola di un pellegrinaggio Zen da 1500 km attraverso 88 templi . Io la taglio a meta' naturalmente per montagne e dormo a Kochi altra citta' di mare e naruralmente si cena a base di sushi freschissimo . Sto viaggiando un po in fretta un mio amico a Shizuoka mi ha invitato ad andare ad Iwata a visitare la fabbrica della Yamaha .Potevo dire di no?

... in her car and road trip our way to shikoku and around tokushima-ken. we had a blast of a weekend in her tinsy tiny japanese size car (think geo metro) listening to great music and snacking on amazingly delicious homemade trail mix as we snaked our way ...

In Hiroshima I visited the famous or infamous Atomic Dome(ground zero August 1945)and learned a lot of interesting details. The first atomic bomb was detonated at 600 meters above the city to maximize its lethal potential. It resulted in over 140,000 deaths including 14,000 Koreans who were forced in to ...

... her son and her husband who is a chief commanding officer at the Marines base down south. She invited me to come and visit them at the base and was very nice, but quite frankly, I feel that doing that would be one step away from knocking on the White House door and asking to come in for a cup of tea. 4. BAR MAC Back in Hiroshima, I took a tram (yay, trams!) to my hostel, checked in and then headed back out for a night on the town. After dinner I sat in the park on ...

... and drinking. Well, the drinking part I guess is similar to Thanksgiving.. maybe. Whatever, Brian, Glen, Ashleigh and I decided to make a trip out to Saijo to watch the Danjiri (portable shrines) be dragged thru the city. Now I'm sure you're thinking: "Wait, I thought that 'Omikoshi' meant 'portable shrine'" Well, my dear friend, you'd be correct! Danjiri and Omikoshi both mean 'portable shrine'. The only difference is ...

... womens' roles, gobsmacking me a bit with "House is like ship, and I am captain." & "Two captains very bad I think." This is a difficult issue in Japan, & I'm unwilling to debate when he is the host, and he's the one speaking my language, but I try to make a gentle example by saying, "You and I can look at history and say I wish I could live in Shakespeare time, or as samurai, or maybe Egyptians." "All women I know say they would not want to ...

... the others side of the Pacific Ocean. It was kinda neat to think that I'd touched both sides of the Atlantic ocean, both sides of the Pacific ocean and a smattering of seas. REASON #1 We walked back towards the tourist center and found a small restaurant to get out of the heat. We looked thru the menu and saw that they had whale on it. I was super curious since they'd made such a big stink in the Japanese news that they were going to increase whaling production since they'd found that ...