Japan
This is the whistlestop part of the trip. We've been in Japan for 3 days now (Kyoto), we fly out to Korea (Seoul) tomorrow for 3 days, then Vietnam (Hannoi).
Kyoto is the old imperial capital of Japan, where the Shoguns kept their Emperor in a nice safe palace away from the power in Tokyo (Kyo means capital, Tokyo is eastern capital and Kyo-to is western capital? Any Japanese experts out there?)
Its full of sights, 1600 Buddhist temples and 400 Shinto shrines, museums, imperial castles and palaces. Its also incredibly hot and humid. The internet here is fast but expensive, so photos will have to wait for a cheap country.
Everyone always comments about how expensive Japan is, I haven't found it too bad - on a par with London. Sushi in particular is excellent and cheap, we ate out at a great local restaurant, a huge plate of sushi for 4gbp. I think it was a lunchtime set menu, nothing was in english (there was quite a bit of apprehension as we couldn't read the price on the menu - pleasant surprise there). There are simply too many temples to see, each of them charging 2gbp to get in.
First jet lag in the trip - 8 timezones in 10 hours. We left at 13:00, arrived at 15:00, 10 hours later on the next day. So my watch said 2 hours had passed, my body clock said it was midnight, the calendar said it was the next day and in reality it was only 10 hours. The shortest day of my life that.
Kyoto is the old imperial capital of Japan, where the Shoguns kept their Emperor in a nice safe palace away from the power in Tokyo (Kyo means capital, Tokyo is eastern capital and Kyo-to is western capital? Any Japanese experts out there?)
Its full of sights, 1600 Buddhist temples and 400 Shinto shrines, museums, imperial castles and palaces. Its also incredibly hot and humid. The internet here is fast but expensive, so photos will have to wait for a cheap country.
Everyone always comments about how expensive Japan is, I haven't found it too bad - on a par with London. Sushi in particular is excellent and cheap, we ate out at a great local restaurant, a huge plate of sushi for 4gbp. I think it was a lunchtime set menu, nothing was in english (there was quite a bit of apprehension as we couldn't read the price on the menu - pleasant surprise there). There are simply too many temples to see, each of them charging 2gbp to get in.
First jet lag in the trip - 8 timezones in 10 hours. We left at 13:00, arrived at 15:00, 10 hours later on the next day. So my watch said 2 hours had passed, my body clock said it was midnight, the calendar said it was the next day and in reality it was only 10 hours. The shortest day of my life that.
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