Sunroute Hiroshima

... photos.<br><br>-----<br>HISTORY IS MADE:<br><br>8:15 am, August 6, 1945, Hiroshima, Japan... The awesome destructive force of the "ATOM BOMB" was without warning unleashed by one group of humans on another for the first time... Tens of thousands of men, women, and children perished instantly!<br><br>"The Dome" is (perhaps) the sole remaining structure preserved from that event. It stands as a testament to history, and as a reminder: "Never again!"<br><br>Detonated over one-third of a mile ...

... apart from the prehistoric bugs everywhere! We met a colony of pregnant cats and their Tom on the walk back ... I hate to admit I had a cuddle, I dont care if they have rabies, I already have flu and some kind of gut disintergrating bacteria anyway - so what is a cat kiss going to do ? Give me the sh!ts .... ah-HA - got you there ... i already got em! hahahahaha. <br><br>We were supposed to be going over to the World Heritige site ...

... out of little ceramic cups. After dinner we headed back to the museum to meet up with our group at the buses. We traveled back to the train station and took another bullet train back to Hiroshima. I didn't sleep on the way back but rather listened to music and looked at the cities that we passed along the way. When we arrived back at the ship I changed clothes and got ready to go out. It was a little after ten so I changed fast and then met up with ...

... days to visit museums. Remember the Japanese fastfood restaurant in Tokyo with the vending machine? I found a branch of that near the Park. Had a rice bowl with beef and vegetables, miso soup and green tea for $6. Thank God, I`m saved from the evils of McDonald`s... Visited the World Peace Memorial Cathedral. Finally... A Christian establishment in Japan... The building was intensely modern. Its bare concrete walls resembled a ruined, post-a-bomb Hiroshima building. The inside of this ...

... visitors are encouraged to ring for world peace..so we gave it a go. From there, we cycled to the Children's Peace Monument created in the memory of Sadako Sasaki, a young girl who died of cancer due to radiation from the bomb.She believed if she could fold 1000 paper cranes, she would be cured. She died eight months after being diagnosed. Her class mates raised money for the monument. We ...

... It also should be noted that it was my fault we got on the 'wrong' train in the first place. Tom just wrote down the directions incorrectly. In FACT it would take us about 4 hours to actually get to Kanazawa.<br><br>So, instead we opted for Kamakura, a tiny little tourist town with a large temple complex located in a valley. There also seemed to be a religious festival on at the time in which people threw white arrows in a a bonfire and prayed for prosperity.<br><br>The ...

As a general rule of thumb, the Japanese are all too happy to go about their day as usual, unable to acknowledge your very exist. Those that aren't ignoring you, are usually staring - perhaps just a little too intently - for entire twenty minute subway rides. But those that you should be most wary of are those that are unusually delighted to have two 'Amerikans' visiting their little ol' country. This was, unfortunately, learned the hard way. Whilst attempting to find ...

... 40 graden. Als het na een paar dagen van fikse regen eindelijk droger wordt en de lokale doktor de nodige medicijnen heeft voorgeschreven voor wat ze hier noemen loose motion gaan we dan echt op weg naar Udaipur. We zitten er klaar voor want dit moet de meest romantische stad van India worden. Helaas valt dat een beetje tegen en moet de romantiek toch weer voornamelijk van ons zelf komen. Na aankomst zoeken we verkoeling in het zwembad van het Palace hotel. Hoewel een likje ...

... so I shall post this photo of Kinkakuji (The Temple of the Golden Pavilion), alone: And here is some video of the mighty Heian Shrine. I think I may have appreciated Kyoto even more the second time around. I don't think Japan necessarily enjoys, or indeed promotes, the best image internationally when it comes to tourism, but Kyoto really is something special. A large portion of its land area ...

We wake today around 6am and prepare to leave Kyoto. We both feel aware that this is the beginning of the end of our trip. We are sad for this and to leave Kyoto, but both ready to finish out the week and heading home. We have so much to look forward to either way. We're on a bullet train to Himeji which leaves around 7:15. The trip takes an hour and a half and we both sleep and read a bit. The main attraction in Himeji is the castle. It is one of the few castles in ...