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Safari and deluxe camping in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe
We arrived in July in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, on an 8-passengers plane from Victorial Falls. Landing on an airstrip (read; a piece of open land with zebras grassing at one end), we were picked up by Albert, our safari … Continue reading
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Overnight road trip: Tokyo to Hakone and Mount Fuji
This was our second visit to Japan. It was April and cherry blossom festival in Tokyo and Kyoto, but this time we wanted to see something else. So, we booked a car. After 11 hours flight from Europe, we spent … Continue reading
Posted in Asia, Culture, Japan, Travel
Tagged accommodation, Car trip, cherry blossom, communication, explore, golf, Hakone, holiday, Japan, Lake Ashi, Mount Fuji, mountains, road trip, short trip, snow, social differences, travel
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Scenic Sorrento Peninsula and murky Naples
End-of-season trip to Sorrento Peninsula and Naples H.C. Andersen, Freud, and Goethe knew how to find good accommodation, without the use of Google: They have all visited Grand Hotel Cocumella, a former monastery and Latin grammar school in Saint’Agnello, a 10-minutes … Continue reading
Singapore: More than a staging post
First impressions of Singapore and a few tips To me, Singapore used to be little more than a staging post on journeys to e.g. Australia. I imagined a city-state dominated by skyscrapers and container ships, with expat enclaves as the … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, Asia, Chinatown, colonial style, Denmark, Diwali, explore, Fullerton, hawker food, Indian, Little India, luxury, Raffles, short trip, Singapore, skyscrapers, social differences, temple, travel, welfare
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