Blogs from Asia - page 13078

Hey everyone, I'm tired and quite busy, so I'm just going to summarize the third part of my Christmas vacation: 1/2- Imperial Palace, Shinkansen back to Kobe, Osaka Aquarium, dinner in Shinsaibashi 1/3- Nicole and I went to Kyoto, then had dinner with Aaron in Kobe 1/4- Nicole went home and Aaron and I explored Kobe 1/5- Aaron and I went to Himeji to check out the castle and gardens, then had dinner with Rich in Kobe (Kobe beef) 1/6- I worked and Aaron went to Nagoya to visit a friend, dinner at an izakaya where he tried a bunch of interesting things.. hehe 1/7- Aaron and I had a movie marathon- we managed to only leave the couch for food or bathroom breaks! :) 1/8- Shopping and relaxing.. followed by a mad dash to the ... read more

5 och 6 Mars: 06.00 lamnade vi hotellet och akte in i parken i en stor jeep. Det var verkligen som att aka in i en Indiana Jones-film! Ofattbart dramatiskt landskap dar vi akte mellan branta raviner med tat djungel runt om oss. Huvudentren var en haftig portal som skulle kunnat vara en perfekt kuliss i en amerikansk avantyrspark men har var det en akta del av forsvarsverket fran 900-talet. Inne i parken sag vi apor, hjortar och gaseller… men tyvarr ingen tiger. Gjorde ett nytt forsok till kvallen men ingen tiger da heller. Det gjore iofs inte sa mycket eftersom upplevelsen var haftig anda. Vi blev, av ett nya zeelandskt par, rekommenderade en restaurang som hade den basta maten de atit under sin sexveckorssemester i Indien. Maten var fantastisk! Morgonen efter bad vi var chauffor ... read more

Everyone woke up around 7 today, feeling refreshed. We hung around our rooms for a few hours then went outside to view the Hotel’s Japanese Garden. The Garden was absolutely massive, and so well isolated that you forget you are in Tokyo for a while. We found a café in Akasaka with a very reasonable breakfast menu - about 5 bucks for European style coffee, salad, bread and an egg. Skies were a bit overcast at this point and we were worried about rain, so we checked shops for umbrellas. By the time we found some the skies had cleared up and we decided to head for Shibuya. ... read more

As I will study in the MBA program of Sun Yat-Sen University, I have been today with my new friends from HEC Montreal, EM Lyon and Negocia Paris to Lingnan College for choosing our courses. We put the morning to make our choice and then, we had lunch in a small restaurant in the street that we call a “buibui”… I don’t know why we call such restaurant like that in fact… but it is a “buibui”! We had a nice lunch and at 11 persons, we had to pay only about 5.5 euros! So 0.5 euro per person! Waou! That’s why, in brackets, I will eat in restaurant everyday . After eating, Williams - a French student from HEC Montreal who is in Guangzhou since a month - drove us to a fake market. This ... read more

FLORES Arriviamo all’aeroporto di Bali e, dopo aver atteso tre ore buone per un ritardo in partenza, scopriamo con gioia che l’aereo e’ meno peggio di quanto non ci aspettassimo. Il volo e’ breve e bellissimo, infatti per arrivare a Flores si sorvola prima Bali, su cui svetta poderoso il vulcano, quindi Lombok e poi Sumbawa per non contare le centinaia di isolette che fanno da corollario alle isole maggiori e rendono la vista dall’alto un autentico piacere. Atterriamo quindi sulla parte piu’ occidentale dell’isola di Flores e per la precisione a Labuan (o Labuhan) Bajo, minuscolo villaggio di pescatori affacciato sul mare; ci accoglie una vegetazione lussureggiante, una popolazione povera, non particolarmente numerosa e a maggioranza musulmana nonostante il resto dell’isola sia prevalentamente cristiano a seguito della lunghissima domina... read more