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Shinobazu Pond

Posted in Japan, Places to visit

Tagged tokyo, nature, garden

Iconinc pond in Tokyo with lotus flowers blooming in August.

Kiso Fukushima historic district

Kiso-Fukushima

Posted in Japan, Places to visit

Tagged architecture, garden, museum

One of historic post towns along the old Nakasendo road.

Takashima castle in Suwa, Nagano prefecture

Takashima castle

Posted in Japan, Places to visit

Tagged castle, architecture, garden

Reconstructed castle with nice traditional garden in Suwa city.

Hibiya park in Tokyo, Japan

Hibiya park

Posted in Japan, Places to visit

Tagged tokyo, nature, garden

Attractive city park in central Tokyo close to Imperial Palace.

Kitsuki

Posted in Japan, Places to visit

Tagged kyushu, castle, architecture, garden

Kitsuki is a beautiful castle town not far from Beppu, on Kunisaki peninsula. There is a small reconstructed castle and 2 samurai districts with a few residences open to the public.

Usa Jingu

Posted in Japan, Places to visit

Tagged kyushu, architecture, temple, shinto, garden

Usa Jingu is one of the oldest and most important Shinto shrines in Japan. It is dedicated to Hachiman deity, and is the ancestor of all other Hachiman shrines.

Kokura 2016

Posted in Japan, Places to visit

Tagged kyushu, castle, architecture, garden

This post is part of a series called Japan 2016 I’ve been to Kokura before, very briefly at dusk, when the castle was already closed. This visit, almost 10 years…

Tamozawa Imperial Villa

Posted in Japan, Places to visit

Tagged nikko, architecture, garden

Traditional Japanese residence with spacious garden in Nikko.

amenohitravels

Starting from today I'm changing the format of thi

Starting from today I'm changing the format of this account, making it more of a real time travel blog rather than just a collection of photos. I've decided to try out nomadic travel lifestyle, so I need to ramble about it somewhere :)

I will be spending 3 weeks in Iceland, followed by 5 weeks in France (if France doesn't close its border to Americans by then, which I sincerely hope it doesn't).

This is my first look at Reykjavik. Gloomy, but beautiful. Looking forward to the Ring Road trip.

#reykjavik #iceland #nomadictravel #travelnomad #traveliceland #discovericeland #icelandtravel #nordicvibes

Day 9 of my Iceland Ring Road trip was a badly nee

Day 9 of my Iceland Ring Road trip was a badly needed slow day that I made happen by forgoing the idea of driving the Diamond Circle in a 2WD. There’s a 32 mile section of gravel road between Dettifoss and Asbyrgi and I’d rather not see another whale watching village (have seen them plenty in other places) and another canyon (same here) than experience miles upon miles of Icelandic gravel road again.

So I just went to Dettifoss instead, collecting smaller Mývatn area sights along the way, and my sincere strongest impression of Mývatn is: OMG the flies! They’re everywhere, it’s crazy, it’s hard to see and hard to breathe, I’ve encountered flies before, but not like that. Many people were wearing protective head covers – they are probably selling in local souvenir shops, but I didn’t want to buy one just for today. To say the truth, it wasn’t equally bad everywhere. Some areas have them more, some have them less, so the flies didn't completely ruin my day.

To wrap up the day I went to Mývatn Nature Baths. The water and the scenery are good. Everything else – well, as you know I’m strongly biased, or rather spoiled by years of soaking in hot springs in Japan, so. I will probably not get out of my way to visit another hot spring in Iceland – except for if I stumble upon a natural spring completely free of people, but the probability of that happening is close to zero. Everyone actively loves Iceland now.

#travelnomad
#traveliceland
#travelette
#femalesolotraveler
#solotraveler
#solotravel
#icelandroadtrip
#icelandwaterfall
#icelandringroad
#dettifoss
#amazingiceland
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#myvatn
#northiceland
#travelgirl
#girltravels

I’ll be soon running out of adjectives to descri

I’ll be soon running out of adjectives to describe how beautiful Iceland is. The scenery gets more dramatic the further south you go, where I am now (between Holt and Vik) the land mass rises so abruptly from the sea level it’s just breathtaking, on the right side everything is absolutely flat, disappearing into the sea, on the left – sheer cliffs with dozens of waterfalls. I’ll take closer look at this landscape tomorrow, today was really all about the Westman Islands, which are breathtaking in their own right (and also a Dunnett location).

Day 3 of my Ring Road trip was really long, I got to Heimaey on the first ferry and left on the one before last, and after getting off the ferry quickly stopped by Seljalandsfoss waterfall on my way to the guesthouse.

What I enjoyed the most today:

Amazing scenery of Westman Islands

My fist puffins (see reel) and beluga whales at Sea Sanctuary in Heimaey. I also saw some puffins in the sea from the boat, but no puffins on land, September is too late for that already.

Learning about 1973 volcanic eruption in Heimaey (when you live on a volcano, sometimes volcano comes to your home…)

Seljalandsfoss waterfall (yeah, it’s cool when you can get behind the waterfall, especially of that size).

#westmanislands
#heimaey
#icelandroadtrip
#amazingiceland
#icelandtravel
#travelnomad
#nomadictravel
#discovericeland
#vestmannaeyjar

Day 8 of my Iceland Ring Road trip was a long day,

Day 8 of my Iceland Ring Road trip was a long day, mainly due to long driving times, but I’ve had other challenges as well. After a beautiful morning at Seyðisfjörður (the most charming little town I’ve seen in Iceland so far) I headed to Borgarfjordur eystri – one detour I planned to make on my way to Mývatn. It’s a very remote place in the northern part of Eastfjords knows for its scenery and elves (among other things). I wanted to go mainly for the elves, but scenery was also a consideration. Anyways, all was good until I hit the unpaved section of the road that I didn’t know about, and my GPS was telling me that I still had 32 miles to go. I almost turned back at this point - 32 miles of gravel road on a rental Toyota Yaris is very unpleasant - but eventually decided to google and found out that it’s just one section of the road. So I bravely went ahead – the section turned out to be just 8 miles long (still unpleasant, but doable). I was rewarded with amazing vistas from the remaining of the road – and the wonderful experience at Álfaborg (Elf Rock). If you’re a meditator, spiritual practitioner or just a person with heightened sensitivity – I recommend. Very interesting power spot in Iceland.

Today was also the day I got myself acquainted with Icelandic police. I was wondering since day 1 how much police is there in Iceland and where they all are – and also why some people on the road are driving too fast, while others are driving too slow. I was probably thinking too loud, so the Universe granted me with answers. The police is, obviously, on the Ring Road, and people who are driving too fast simply haven’t encountered them yet :)

Anyways, the officer was very kind and let me off with a warning. Now I’ll be joining the ranks of the slow people on the road :)

Total driving time today (without stops) – 6 hours. Staying at Mývatn for 2 nights – let’s see how much of it I can explore under the forecasted rain. Today I just stopped at Námaskarð Pass to take pictures of colorful fumaroles.

#borgafjordureystri
#myvatn
#icelandroadtrip
#icelandringroad
#amazingiceland
#discovericeland
#travelette
#femalesolotraveler
#solotraveler
#solotravel

Slowly but surely falling in love with Paris.

I’m getting a hang of it – being slow, I mean. I go out every other day, picking one place, doing one thing - like seeing one floor of d’Orsay museum at a time and then just heading for a restaurant :) I should have planned for 2 months here instead of one, but at the time I wasn’t sure. Now I know for sure that I can live like this and I’m really looking forward to it. Winter in Thailand, spring maybe (please!) in Japan. I’ve stopped hoping for China reopening in any foreseeable future, but maybe Taiwan… Maybe Singapore? Anywhere they speak Mandarin, of any kind. I’m not being picky anymore. Please.

#lovefrance
#sacrecoeur
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#france
#francetravel
#loveparis
#travelnomad
#nomadictravel
#girlslovetravel
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#globetrotter
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#travelette
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#mytraveldiary

Day 5 of my Iceland Ring Road trip was a sunny day

Day 5 of my Iceland Ring Road trip was a sunny day. It was also a long day, because I had some catching up to do. In the morning I backtracked from Vik to see the two mandatory points – Dyrholaey and Reynisfjara – that I skipped yesterday because of the rains, and in the afternoon started my journey East. From now on I will have to spend 3-4 hours a day behind the wheel, and today I got the first taste of that.

Just driving the Ring Road, stopping at viewpoints, takes a lot of stamina. Choices have to be made. Every inch of the landscape is instagrammable, you diligently stop at first 5 viewpoints only to find that the next 5 are even better. Eventually you start skipping, shedding photographer’s tears of blood. And then there are places you actually need to walk up to, like today’s Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon. My physical resources are very limited, so - choices again.

But it was a wonderful day. From impressive floodplains of Katla (Katla is a nasty volcano, hiding under a glacier; whenever it erupts – which it does rather regularly – the whole thing melts and goes down into the ocean) to freakishly scary Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon (to think that people used to just hang out there without the railings! seriously!) to majestic icefields of Vatnajokull and finally to the Glacier Lagoon. Everything they say about it is true. This was the highlight of my day. Looking forward to the boat tour tomorrow.

#amazingiceland
#icelandringroad
#icelandroadtrip
#traveliceland
#travelnomad
#discovericeland
#southiceland
#roadtrip
#jokulsarlon

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