Blogs from Asia - page 13079

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

Arrived in Bangkok late on the night of the 2nd March. The ride from the airport was everything we expected...even though the road is marked quite clearly two lanes the cab drivers still use it as their personal speedway and often are at least three cars wide. It seems the speed limit signs are only there to take up space cause no one seems to take them seriously. The hotel we are staying at is great..the staff friendly and helpful and the pool is the best thing on the a hot afternoon. Speaking of hot it has been at least 36 degrees every day with high humidity. Saturday we spent the day getting orientated....just trying to figure out where you are can make you sweat!!! Sunday was market day...the mother of all markets..everything under the sun ... read more

This is where we met up with our French friend Philippe, and lounged around on little floating huts on the river. One of our favourite places.... read more