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Singapore the Asian Switzerland

Traveling through Asia offers even in each country different aspects and habits. But Singapore itself shows a completely different face than all other Asian countries I have been so far. It is kind of travelling or being in Switzerland – they know well that they have huge economic power and have the independence to make …

Small Holi Festival

Indian Holi color Festival in Singapore which was pretty small but perfect for the first experience with that kind of festival. Located at the beach the sun, the colors, the sand, the water perfectly matched and combined with the indian sounds the feeling was just great… if you ever have the chance to visit one …

可愛い and Remmi Demmi

可愛い (kawaii) is the expression in Japan if you talk about something „cute“. And because really, really a lot in Japan is cute, crazy, colorful, sweet, fluffy or any kind of “girlish”, kawaii is really used often. The difference to western countries is just, that these things are bought in Japan between the age of …

Hakone

HAKONE – the white mountain

The first look on Mount Fuji was amazing. Everywhere around green and brown mountains and in the middle the white covered Mount Fuji spikes out. Arrival from Tokyo is pretty easy and fast by train. With the special Hakone-Pass you can also use every local train, cable car, ships and get some reduction on entrance …

New York, Berlin? TOKYO! – mix it up

Landing in Tokyo by night showed illuminated buildings till horizon. Luckily we arrived at the Haneda Airport next to the center of Tokyo, so the way to our hotel was not as far and expensive as it would have been from the Narita airport. First impression about Japan or especially the Japanese people: nice, quiet, …

FUKUOKA – partly cloudy…

at least during our trip to the volcano Aso. But lets start from the beginnin g. For our first own organized trip we were roughly stopped. To book the bus ticket seemed to be impossible. Luckily we have our international office at the university helping us in every situation. So bus ticket was booked and …

SHANGHAI – dirty, crazy and no copyright…

…were my thoughts about China before I went there the first time – and at all I would never expected to be their one day. Bad luck for me that I gave it chance. It was so fascinating and totally not the expected and totally worth it to go there a second time. Shanghai was …

SEOUL – never sleeping city

at least while we have been there 😉 Taking the Asiana airline was a good decision for the early flight from Shanghai to Seoul. And after a short stay with a nice burger we got to our friend’s place in Seoul. Taking the public transports was not that complicated as expected but one small hint …