Cat Ba
Cat Ba is an island located south of Halong Bay. We read about it on Juju and Coco’s blog, a couple of friends who completed an eight months Asian trip in 2016. Our first impressions were not really good: we… Continue Reading
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The famous Halong Bay
Recommended by some friends, we had booked a fancy cruise on a traditional vietnamese junk. This Unesco-classified scenic landscape actually covers 3 bays (Halong, Bai Tu Long and Lan Ha). We went on the second one (Bai Tu Long bay)… Continue Reading
Hanoi or the Vietnamese culture shock
Let’s put it this way: everything we had heard about Hanoi is true: it is a noisy and polluted city (where you can actually see the smog), with a big mess in its streets shared between countless motorbikes klaxoning all… Continue Reading
Arigato Gozaimazu!
(French) : J’aime les gateaux et les limaces! We left Japan on October 16th (already 2 weeks ago!) and now seems to be a good time for a short review of our 3 weeks there.– Duration: 24 days (from September… Continue Reading
On the way to Osaka
To avoid a rather long journey back to Tokyo, we had booked a flight to our next destination (Hanoi, Vietnam) from Osaka instead. Believing Osaka was just “another big city”, we decided to split our last day in Japan between… Continue Reading
Kyoto, the Eternal City
Though we spent 5 days in Kyoto, we did not go much out of the beaten path for various reasons (Hagibis typhoon being one of them) so we basically focused on the city “must-do” attractions. Also we eventually prepared for… Continue Reading
Kanazawa
According to some online guidebooks, Kanazawa is, for some reasons, often forgotten by French tourists, but has a rich history and culture. It was the home of the Maeda clan, one of the most powerful in Japan during the 16th… Continue Reading
Shirakawa-gō
On our way to Kanazawa, we stopped several hours in the “village of the White River”, Shirakawa–gō. Though this traditional village used to be famous for its silk worm culture, we did not see any of these little monsters 🙁… Continue Reading
Kamikochi Valley
We learned about Kamikochi through a website and that is actually one of the reasons we decided to come to Takayama. It is a national park located in the heart of the Japanese Alps (1h30 from Takayama) which, one must… Continue Reading
Takayama, a gateway to the Japanese Alps
We arrived at Takayama by bus from Kawaguchiko and stayed 5 days in this nice little town, located in the Japanese Alps (actually not so little as it is the prefecture of Gifu). Takayama has conserved its traditional city center,… Continue Reading