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TOKYO, JAPAN - DESTINATION 8, DAY 103!! Our arrival in Japan in the early hours was quite a culture shock, in fact a TOTAL culture shock from where we had just been......... At the airport we were astounded by many things; taking your temperature as you arrived to check you were in good health (if not a free health check and advice was on offer, god knows how we passed as healthy!!), the extreme cleanliness, the heated public toilet seats (!!), the hoovering of s...

Master Parker's final entry before his & Nikki's mums swift exit back to the UK! Thursday 3/4/08 Early breakfast again, and left the hotel by 6.30am to get to the bus station in time to catch the 7.30 'local bus' to Delhi. Total journey time was about 6 hours, including a brief rest-stop about half way there. Interesting to note that the closer you get to Delhi, the more notice people take of the rules of the road - it was rather nice to see lines on the road...

Author Ian Master Parker cont'd........ Tuesday 1/4/08 Reasonably civilised start to the day, then out to catch another 'local bus' to take us on the 4 ½ hour journey to Jaipur, where we were dropped somewhat in the middle of nowhere. However Abhi soon arranged a fleet of tuk-tuks to transport us to our hotel, which was hidden away just off the city centre, and was a really quaint place that had loads of 'character' (including having a power cut every evenin...

Author - Master Parker Monday 31/3/08 Caught a 'proper' local bus (with people other than our group on it) which dropped us a couple of hours later at a hotel somewhat outside Bharatpur, with very little else about. Still feeling wobbly, so retired to the room and slept whilst everyone else went on a local village tour, where I understand that general feeling of the place was really nice, and the children actually didn't beg at all! Sue joined the others for dinn...