Travel blogs and travel photos

We managed to get on the train from Beijing to Lhasa without any problems in Beijing where we got on the road for more than 48 hours. China is a big country, and going all the way across certainly takes a while. We were sharing our room with four other people, all chinese. We didn't talk much, our chinese being fairly limited (Hello, thank you and that's about it). We were expecting an epic trai...

We got to Beijing early in the morning, after a long train ride from Shanghai. The train was comfy, we had a decent sleep and we were ready for some more adventure. Beijing seemed to be much better than Shanghai, even after 5 minutes. People seemed nicer, a bit less crazy (still pretty crazy, but to a lesser degree) and the city itself seemed to have a charm. We dropped our stuff off at our hostel...

We got in Shanghai on the 17th, straight out of Japan and the adventure started pretty much right away. We had vague directions on how to get to our hostel (what we usually have) and we thought that everything would be OK. Wrong. We first took a bus right out of the airport to get to town, our first contact with chinese madness. The bus driver was just insane, crossing 5 lanes at a time, driving ...

Hello everyone, Here is a quick update on my trip in Japan. After my time in Tokyo, I spent 5 days based in Kyoto, which turned out to be a great city. Most definitely not as crazy buzy as Tokyo is, but full of temples, gardens and such attractions. The weather was not that great in our time there but we still managed to get things done. Our first day was spent looking for a zen garden (apparentl...

The trip to Japan started on a pretty bad note, not because my crazy roomate flipped out and threw furniture from the patio the night before I left but because our flight got cancelled in Vancouver and we had to spend a night there. No big deal, Japan Airlines took care of us and hooked us up with a really nice hotel room near the airport. Since we had a friend in Vancouver, we decided to head dow...