March - August 2008

March - August 2008
Route: London --- Delhi (see Rajastan and the Golden Triangle before flying to Amritsar and Chandigar). Delhi --- Hong Kong (a short stay). Hong Kong --- Tokyo (catch the shinkansen north to Sapporo and back - with a few stops on the way). Tokyo --- Beijing (travel overland via Xi'an and the Yellow River to Shanghai). Shanghai --- Hong Kong and then hop on the ferry to Macau for a flight to Bangkok. Then travel overland to Chiang Mai, through Laos and then back down to Bangkok (to catch a flight to London for a wedding). From Bangok travel down to Singapore via Malysia, before flying to Oceania.

26 May 2008

More Tokyo Photos

Roppongi Hills - a multi million pound shopping complex complete with Japanese gardens, sky-scrapers, designer shops, and or course a giant spider.
Roppongi also has an arcade for gamers. To lure you inside they've placed a giant fish tank on the street wall. This is one of the inhabitants (no, I don't mean me haha)! If you look carefully in the background you'll see a mini shark wizzing by.
Senso Ji - Tokyo's liveliest temple. A nice Pagoda too! It also has a very pleasant garden (below) with a sculptured waterfall, pond and series of bridges.



Tokyo Tower. It does look like the Eiffel tower, eh? Odd colour scheme though.
Japanese gardens are very beautiful. This on had a lovely lake (with greedy coi carp), and miniature hills to walk up and down.
Another nice Japanese shrine. This one was in Uno - one of the northern areas in the city. It's housed in a very extensive garden complex, along with many many more shrines.


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