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                    <title>Gose Sougetsusai Festival</title>
                    <description>Sougetsusai roughly translated as November Festival is held once a year in Gose City. I was invited to attend two years ago by a dear Japanese friend but eventually didn39t make it. This time around not even the rain can stop me from going to this festival.There are so many events going around town in celebration of Sougetsusai. The main attraction of this festival is the showcasing of traditi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/blog-764270.html</link>
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                    <title>Hiroshima  a symbol of peace or man's worst evil nature</title>
                    <description>It was exactly how I envisioned a trip to Hiroshima would be. A feeling of sadness engulfed me as soon as I saw the Atomic bomb Dome the only recognizable structure that was left standing during the nuclear attack.The people and its city had long transformed itself as an ambassador of peace and fought relentlessly to end any nuclear testing and free the world of nuclear weapons. One wil be confro</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Hiroshima/blog-735673.html</link>
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                    <title>"Daddy why are they cutting the fish"</title>
                    <description>Golden Week is a collection of 4 national holidays in a seven day period starting around the last week of April and ending on the first week of May. April 29 is the Showa emperor39s birthday and May 34 and 5 are the other 3 national holidays. So for this year there were 2 consecutive long weekends 3 and 4 days respectively. Most Japanese people choose to travel this time of the year us joi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Wakayama/blog-714474.html</link>
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                    <title>Portraits of a Philippine wedding in Osaka </title>
                    <description>We have always wanted to have a wedding since our unceremonious civil one in New York nearly 6 years ago. But life as it is always had funny way of distracting your efforts and gear it toward more important things such as having a child... and then another one.We always think of ourselves as very parctical people thus we wanted to hold off our wedding a little bit longer to enable us to save</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/blog-711167.html</link>
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                    <title>PDA in Japan </title>
                    <description>All the while Osaka plays second fiddle to New York City the place we loved so dearly but left it for practical reasons. We can39t help itNew York City was the backdrop of our love story. Me and my wife in a romantic and fun city while being young and without parental responsibility thats New York. While Osaka is a place where we toil and raised our children all on our own apart from our fa</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Osaka/Osaka/blog-702010.html</link>
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                    <title>San Francisco looking back a home away from home  </title>
                    <description>We all have places we knew by heart and like a charmed lover makes us keep coming back for more. And everytime we revisit that place we fall in love over and over again. Sometimes we even get lucky that every visit enriches us and make us connect more with ourselves as an outcome. San Francisco is that place for me. Every visit is a memorable one the recent ones always more fulfilling than the</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/San-Francisco/blog-688692.html</link>
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                    <title>Osaka LightCandle festival </title>
                    <description>Its been a busy summer for us. We didn39t get a chance to see any big matsuri festivals or hanabi fireworks display which define summer in  Japan. These festivals are really nice to see as most highlight the beautiful Japanese culture but it also atttracts big crowds and as such being held in summer attendees should bear with heat and humidity.But we can39t let this summer pass by with</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Osaka/Osaka/blog-637889.html</link>
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                    <title>Busan great food and very nice people </title>
                    <description>Seeing ferries docked at  the waterfront restaurant as we dined with friends three months ago our  turned on how fun would it be to take a cruise to Busan.  So the next day my wife went to research about this not so popular casual cruise among nonKoreans living in Japan. I swore never to take a cruise in the past. I always had this crazy fear of being trapped in the open water and counting hou</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/South-Korea/Busan/blog-634427.html</link>
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                    <title>Boracay  news of tsunami and rain in paradise</title>
                    <description>Arrived in Manila half past midnight on 11th of March. My parents and sisters were so happy to see us they played with our kids for hours. There were no sleep in sight as we still have to unpack and repack for our flight to Boracay later that day. Though lacking sleep my kids seemed more energized having so many playmates. So after the carplanevanboattrycicle ride we arrived at Sur Beach Re</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Boracay/blog-589227.html</link>
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                    <title>Nara revisited</title>
                    <description>Kyoto and Nara are 2 of Japan's ancient capitals both located in the Kansai region. And like sisters one is more popular and considered prettier than the other. The prettier one to most people would be Kyoto which most of the time top the must see places in a travelers list. While Nara may always be on the places to go to list it will never beat Kyoto on the top spot and sometimes travelers wi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Nara/blog-578882.html</link>
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                    <title>Kyoto revisited</title>
                    <description>A friend of mine arrived for a 12 day visit here in Osaka from the Philippines. She couldn't come at a worst day of the year. In my 4 years living in the city snow is very rare thus it's kind of strange that there was heavy snow on the day after the night of her arrival. The whole tour schedule I prepared for her visit had to be changed. We were supposed to go to Kyoto on the first day but ended</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Kyoto/blog-571849.html</link>
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                    <title>Koyasan Snow on Cedar Trees Temples and Buddhas</title>
                    <description>Just came back from Fukuoka and headed straight to Koyasan the next day. Still on my New year holiday and luckily kiddie daycare is already back and running. So we sent our kids to the daycare for the day and finally made the journey to the famous Mt. Koya.  The place is 860 meters above sea level and dotted with quite a number of World Heritage Sites pertaining to Esoteric practice of Shingo B</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Wakayama/Koyasan/blog-558024.html</link>
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                    <title>Prayers for Lasting Love and Fish Eggs A Very Japanese New Year </title>
                    <description>I was anxious to spend 5days with my inlaws in Fukuoka for the New Year holiday. Not that I don't like them I do actually adore them. But if one experienced New Year in Japan its the most important holiday for them but unlike most countries the celebration is way too quiet compared to the usual big bang New Year festivities most people have grown accustomed to. If a city as big as Osaka can </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Fukuoka/blog-557502.html</link>
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                    <title>aquarium and USJ </title>
                    <description>Never running out of new things to do is what I always cherished living in a big city. I am sure there are still some  temples here and there left unseen and definitely still a lot of nature sites in the bustling city of Osaka left undiscovered by my itchy feet. In my 3 years of living in this city I intentionally left 2 places for a later visit namely the Osaka City aquarium and Universal Studi</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Osaka/Osaka/blog-503439.html</link>
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                    <title>Philippines  family and food</title>
                    <description>What a tedious 4 hour flight from Osaka to Manila via Cebu Pacific. The air feels hoarse our throat became sore and dry. But the airfare was a measly 180 for 3 passengers and not a single dollar for my infant daughter. We didn't have previous plan to travel to the Philippines but who could resist such an offer. Should we fly Cebu Pacific again..... absolutelyWe arrived home 30 mins past midni</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/blog-486892.html</link>
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                    <title>Trip to the Zoo</title>
                    <description>Always wanted to see the panda. But zoos that housed those seemingly cuddly and cute pandas are very far from our home. But we have exhausted all interesting places around our neighborhood. So we braved almost an hour and a half with our two kiddies to Oji Zoo in Kobe. Luckily my kids are in a good mood and seemed not to mind the long train ride. We arrived at the zoo just half past nine and were</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/blog-458781.html</link>
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                    <title>30 minutes radius goal</title>
                    <description>Our family can't stay home for more than 12 hours a day. We need to constantly be away from our house or our kids will go berserk. But we can't travel very far as it is very inconvenient for me and my wife as we need to rush back home for our kids afternoon siesta. And traveling far is not really a great option for parents with a baby and a toddler. So we always ended up going to the same mall </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/blog-454957.html</link>
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                    <title>A Journey Philippines family and life </title>
                    <description>It took a while for me write about my trip made to the Philippines last August for a very sad reason. We travel for a lot of different reasons and for whatever it is  it will be always be an enriching experience. Living abroad for most of my adult life an untimely call from my home country always sends anxiety attacks. But on the early morning of August 10th the message was sent by my sister i</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Manila/blog-452543.html</link>
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                    <title>break from our vacation</title>
                    <description>We were supposed to stay a total of 22 days in the Philippines. That meant endless family reunions and outings. I love love love spending time with my family but this also our chance to have willing and trusted people to look after our kids. So wifey and myself wanting to have much needed alone time left our kids to the loving care of my family and flew for a 3 day vacation to Bangkok. It was o</description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Thailand/Central-Thailand/Bangkok/blog-408409.html</link>
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                    <title>Boracay hype is real </title>
                    <description>There was the still the slight chill of winter as we left Osaka for the Philippines. Thus the humidity in Manila was a bit uncomfortable. But nonetheless all is well as we drove up to the cool mountain of Tagaytay as soon as we arrived. There we stayed overnight viewed the Taal Volcano and Lake dinner at Jospehines and called it a day. The next morning we passed by the Good Sheperd convent on </description>
                    <link>http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Philippines/Boracay/blog-407971.html</link>
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