Japan 2016: Day 7, Miyajima

Day 7 / 12 February 2016 (Friday) : Miyajima Today is the last full day of our trip, we will be visiting Osaka Castle and will make a “day trip” to the island of Miyajima. Our friend from Dubai will be flying to Manila today to continue his holidays. We all went together to Namba…

Japan 2016: Day 6, Kyoto to Osaka

Day 6 / 11 February 2016 (Thursday) : Kyoto to Osaka This morning, we will still be checking some more spots in Kyoto before we travel back to Osaka later in the afternoon. We “check out” from our AirBnB house early in the morning so we can have more time to see more of Kyoto.…

Japan 2016: Day 5, Tokyo to Kyoto

Day 5 / 10 February 2016 (Wednesday) : Tokyo to Kyoto After staying in Tokyo for 3 days, we will travel back down south and stay in Kyoto for one night. Felt like I started to have colds from the cold weather so I wore a mask (like most locals do ;p) while traveling from…

Japan 2016: Day 4, Tokyo

Day 4 / 09 February 2016 (Tuesday) : Tokyo Today is a sort of “free day” for all four of us so everyone is free to go anywhere they want today. My Dubai friend decided to go to Tokyo Disneyland because it’s in his bucket list to go to all the Disneyland all over the…

Japan 2016: Day 3, Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

Day 3 / 08 February 2016 (Monday) : Train ride along Tadami Line Snow Monkey Park Today we are supposed to ride the train along the Tadami Line to enjoy the snow blanketed view of the towns along this train line. Photo from Japan-Magazine.jnto.go.jp There are very limited trains passing along Tadami Line so being…

Japan 2016: Day 1 & 2, Osaka to Tokyo

This is the most “challenging” trip that I have prepared so far. It’s a trip with three other friends who will be coming from Kuala Lumpur, Manila and Dubai. We will travel separately and meet in Osaka to travel together around Japan. The planning stage started as early as 8 months before the trip and…

Switzerland 2015: Zurich

Day 7 / 21 November 2015: Bern to Zurich Today we are leaving Bern to travel to Zurich for our evening flight back to Singapore.   Trying to enjoy the last glimpse of this lovely city while having our breakfast at the hotel.   Last photo shoot before walking back to Bern Station   We…

Switzerland 2015: Bern

Day 5 / 19 November 2015: Lugano to Bern After staying in Lugano for 5D/4N, we will travel to Bern to stay for another 3D/2N.   We left Lugano station a little pass 12 noon for yet another 3 hour ride back to Zurich Station   Since we have so much time, we check the…

Switzerland 2015: Lugano

This will be my second trip to Switzerland, and as what I have promised after my first trip 6 years ago (Please click HERE to read about my first Switzerland trip), that if ever I got the chance to go back here again, I will be “bolder” and explore more places. So even though the…