Travel Update: Farewell to Hong Kong
We spent our last few weeks in Hong Kong traumatizing local students, eating in unusual places, and preparing for the voyage home.
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Travel Update: Cebu
We visit Cebu, where we gawk at dragons, leap off buildings, misunderstand mass, and spot some unusually large firepower.
Travel Update: Manila
We explore the city of Manila, seeing the old walled city of Intramuros, the shrine of José Rizal, the fishes of Ocean Park, and a whole lot of bad puns.
Travel Update: Tokyo, Part 2
We visit Tokyo Disneyland, fend off carnivorous fish, celebrate Kat’s birthday, and befriend a sizeable portion of the US Navy on our last few days in Japan.
Travel Update: Kyoto, Part 3
We spend our last day in Kyoto, where the ladies get gussied up in fancy kimonos, we get trolled by a restaurant, and disaster strikes when we least expect it. Also: there’s a duck.
Travel Update: Kansai Region
We visit four cities in one day – Kyoto, Nara, Himeji, and Osaka.
Amelia gets in a fight with a deer, Kat discovers there’s something better than world peace, Shawn plays it cool in the face of overwhelming adorability, and we all discover that we don’t know how to tell time.
Travel Update: Kyoto, Part 2
We return to Kyoto to soak up the local arts and culture, take a somewhat-prurient interest in a partially-naked statue of a delivery boy, visit more shrines that you can shake a stick at (2), and experience the mind-blowing combination of flavours that is MOS Burger.
Travel Update: Tokyo, Part 1
We meet up with our friend Shawn in Tokyo and hit up Harajuku, Akihabara, Gonpachi, and other pop-culture hotspots. Plus: sumo wrestlers and the imperial palace’s gardens!
Travel Update: Kyoto, Part 1
We visit temples, drink holy water, stumble into a hidden Studio Ghibli gift shop, make friends with strangers, take over a sushi bar, and chase a baby monkey around.
Seriously, the baby monkey was adorable. I recommend skipping down to the end just for that.
Travel Update: Koyasan
We visit Koyasan, a Japanese mountain range home to a hundred temples. We see a few old buildings and learn a lot about luck.