If you have always wanted to eat scorpions, seahorses, snails, sea urchins, frogs, snakes, centipedes or locusts, you will definitely find it in Perking. In the Wangfujing Snack Street in the middle of the city center you can discover all kinds of culinary delights.
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Asia, which from the Assyrian word Assus means “region towards the sunrise”, is with its 47 states the largest continent in terms of area and with over four billion people also the most populous. Both India and China each have over one billion people. The largest cities are Beijing, Shanghai, Istanbul, Karachi, Mumbai, Guangzhou, Delhi and Jakarta.
Beijing – A daytrip to the New Summer Palace (China)
After our visit to Tian’anmen Square and the Temple of Heaven this morning, we went as the next stop to the Summer Palace in Beijing.
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Since we only had 72 hours to visit Beijing because of our transit visa, we have put together a very tight program for the most important sights in Beijing and an all-day trip to the Great Wall of China. But that’s what we’re used to 🙂
» Read the full blog postBeijing – Our problem with the 72-hour transit visa (China)
Now we have been on a world tour for over 150 days and everything worked exactly as we had planned in advance 🙂 That something had to go wrong at some point was almost clear – and today was unfortunately that day. We had problems getting in from Japan to China with our booked flight ticket…
» Read the full blog postTokyo – Shinjuku District & Hibiya Oktoberfest (Japan)
After we got up early yesterday and had a long day, we just slept today and only left around noon. On our last day we wanted to go to Hibiya Oktoberfest and the Shinjuku district with the kabukicho entertainment district.
» Read the full blog postShibazakura Festival – Beautiful flower carpet at Mount Fuji (Japan)
After our photo stop this morning in Arakurayama Sengen Park, we boarded the next Fujikyuko Line train at shimoyoshida stop at around 12pm, which arrived in Kawaguchiko a short time later. From here it was not far to the Shibazakura Festival.
» Read the full blog postArakurayama Sengen Park, Chureito Pagoda & Mount Fuji (Japan)
Today we wanted to photograph one of the most popular tourist destinations in Japan and one of the most beautiful mountains in the world – Mount Fuji. And a famous photo spot for this is the Arakurayama Sengen Park with the great Chureito Pagoda.
» Read the full blog postTokyo – Imperial Palace & Sensoji Temple in Asakusa (Japan)
After admiring the view from the Metropolitan Government Building this morning and being at Tokyo Tower, our tour of this huge city continued to the Imperial Palace and Sensoji Temple in Asakusa.
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Today Tokyo woke us up with bright blue skies and sun, so we set off to explore the city’s sights. We had previously researched on the Internet that the Metropolitan Government Building has a magnificent view of the metropolis of millions and Mount Fuji.
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After visiting the Ueno Zoo at noon we walked through Ameyoko Shopping Street, which leaves directly from the metro station in Ueno.
» Read the full blog postTokyo – The Pandas & Sea Lions at Ueno Zoo (Japan)
Tokyo unfortunately greeted us on our first day with covered skies.
» Read the full blog postTokyo – Our flight from Australia to Japan (Japan)
Today we started our seven-hour jet star flight from Cairns in Australia to Tokyo in Japan at noon.
» Read the full blog postCebu Island – Swimming with whale sharks in Oslob (Philippines)
We had read in advance of our research on our PADI Open Water diving course in the Philippines that there is the possibility to swim with whale sharks not far from our hotel Atmosphere Resort & Spa in Oslob on the island of Cebu. And we definitely didn’t want to miss this experience 🙂
» Read the full blog postNegros Island – PADI Open Water Course at Atmosphere Resort (Philippines)
We first came into contact with the topic of “diving” in 2013 at the Sipadan Kapalai Dive Resort on Borneo. In the resort we did a Discover Scuba Dive for the first time in addition to the daily schoring… and equally seen turtles and an octopus up close. This fascinated us so much that we were determined: we want to make a PADI diving license! 🙂
» Read the full blog postNegros Island – The Atmosphere Resorts & Spa (Philippines)
Today we flew from Manila to Dumaguete to the island of Negros in the Philippines at 3 p.m. Here is our Hotel Atmosphere Resorts & Spa.
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