Konnichiwa, so I finally arrived in Tokio, Japan! The difference between China and Japan are striking, but I will go into this a bit later on. Upon my transfer to the hotel the subway was absolutely crowded with people amongst whom lots of people wearing kimono`s or yukata`s. This was due to the summer festival, where everybody traditionally goes wearing these clothes to watch the fireworks: pretty cool! As I arrived pretty late, so I missed the tour meeting ...

The last full day before we were both more or less leaving Shanghai! Christopher headed out to the Shanghai museum, while I spend the day doing laundry and working on this blog! Besides this I went to the post office to send all the stuff I had bought during the course of the trip back home, so I wouldn't need to carry it with me to Japan and all other countries. Making everything fit in a box was a challenge (especially the tennis-rackets, ask me later), so I s...

Another day in Shanghai! Since there actually wasn't that much to see in Shanghai when compared to other cities, we decided to go to a museum. The former residence of Dr. Sun Yat Sen, to be exact. For all who doesn't know who this man is, I'll explain: he was the revolutionary that more or less stood at the base of modern China (I didn't know this either). The museum and his house are located in the old French area of the city. The big houses show that this must...

We started today by sleeping in! As the official tour finished yesterday, we had today to go to our hostel and relax. Christopher luckily had another credit card that allowed him to take money from the ATM, so for the moment the financial issues were solved. Our hostel was conveniently situated within a 5 to 10 minute walking distance of People's Square, so after putting out luggage in our room we set out for a walk across the Bund as described in the Lonely ...

After Suzhou we took a bus in the early morning to head for the final destination of our China tour: Shanghai. Altough the distance between the two cities is not very big, it nevertherless takes some two hours to get there. One thing to notie during the trip is that the humidity rises importantly and the smog becomes pretty impressive. Upon arrival in Shanghai the hotel appears to be situated just some 150 meters from one of the main shopping streets in Shangha...