Posts Tagged ‘backpacking’
Maybe your favorite backpacking food is a freeze-dried turkey dinner. There really is no “best” backpacking food. There are reasons to bring certain foods, though. Here are ten foods, and the reasons you might want to consider them.
1. Nuts. This is one of the most calorie-packed foods you can take. That means less weight to carry. With lots of protein and other nutritonal benefits, nuts are one of the best backpacking foods. Read the rest of this entry »
Phi Phi Don has beautiful beches, long beach one that can only be achieved by Long Tail boat for 5-10 minutes. The beach is also very attractive, with turquoise water and clear colour located in the extreme to suppose we are in the dock and facing the island.
Together with 12 backpackers in April 2007 we were trip to Phi Phi Island start from Bangkok. Bus ticket (double decker) our travel agents in Khaosan Road 500baht price (price group, 600Bath normal price). Leave at 6 pm, the bus arrived at Surat Thani at 6 AM. Rest for a while, change buses and continue the trip to Krabi, take 2 hours. From Krabi we continue to Aonang beach about 20 minutes. For the boat to Phi Phi to Krabi town daari itself or from Aonang Beach. Read the rest of this entry »
Casa means house, Blanca means white. Actually this Casablanca of Portuguese language, and entered by the Spanish to be Casablanca. I got off at Casa Voyageurs a la Gare. The fall directly on the tracks. Sweet girl whom I asked a few seconds ago seemed confused to explain where we are in English. Ok, here I am, Casablanca. City of many told in a movie or book or something.
This is a true story about a 23-year-old man who tried to escape from the reality of his life. A small notebook containing the days of fun and exciting was written to commemorate all that happened. Leaving in a state of hunger and cold. I am not aware that the bus I was riding off to 7:15 PM. So just in a hurry to run. Despite the rain, such a summer.
Travel through the cities of death in Scotland is stabbed my feelings are empty. Well, amid lonely, everyone was asleep in the bus. We stopped in several small terminal. Several people were seen spoon to remove the departure of friends or family. And while I was a little smile for a long time did not feel the warmth of friendship and family. Everything seems to be cold and tiring. Like living in Aberdeen.
This prolonged depression must end with a trip up the slack. May I know the answer after 10 days to finish this Morocco. 18:00 AM, in the bus.
Approximately 1-2 hours I’ll be in London. One of the passengers who styled hip-hop lit it with the volume of your i Pod disturbing. I’m hungry, have not eaten all day. The sky was gray outside. Whether curse what God given to this country, how not-bright sunny sky ? The air in the cold bus. Occasionally the heater was on, but still cold. I like to see the road that never change. Line white road and continue to like chase each other.
My eyes itch. Women behind the smell. I’m hungry. I want to go home … but where? 21:56 AM, London Thames Link Station. Former wet rain. I am in London. In Kingcross Thames Link station. Just ate, but I’m tired for some reason. I think I need a rest. I do not want to hurt. Wew, should buy such a powerful drug used. Tomorrow is up in Morocco. I think it would be very stressful. Because I was alone. London or any city in the UK boring. Or maybe because I was not able to find activities that can make me live. Whether, I’m tired to think.
Avoid traveling in early May (Golden Week) or mid-August (Obon). At this time, the offices in Japan dismiss employees, when all the people going home. Here the Japanese people use the holiday to travel abroad or domestic (hotel occupancy was suddenly full).
When to go
There are several choices of time if you want to visit Japan, depending on the purpose of visiting Japan. If you only have once chance to visit Japan, came at the beginning of April, when the cherry blossom (cherry blossom)
Spring, (Mar-May) – in early April, when the cherry blossom, or reply in Japan called Hanami (hana = flower; mi (ru) = see) If you can, and have a picnic under the cherry tree, wrote popular in Ueno Park, Tokyo. Read the rest of this entry »
Some of us may have heard that Japan is the most expensive country in the world. Problems that may arise if we want to backpacking to Japan, how to budget backpacking in Japan can be suppressed. Here are some tips to push the budget for backpacking in Japan.
Transportation
Seishun 18 kippu (read: Seishun juuhachi kippu)
This is a cheap ticket for the train in Japan. Physical form can be seen in the picture below. These tickets are sold only during the school holidays in Japan (holiday new year, spring break (early March – early April) and summer (early July – early September). For the exact date can be viewed on the website japan-guide. The price is 11,500 yen (as of August 2006) for 5 days unconsecutive (so 2300 yen a day). Do not convert into dollars, because the reply if you convert it so expensive. In Japan 2300 yen a day for all local trains for rapid + throughout Japan operated by Japan Railways practically very cheap. Read the rest of this entry »