Woo hoo im in Tokyo! I just arrived here on the train from a small town on the coast called Kamakura. I fancied a break from the busy cities before heading for the big one! I was stuck in Osaka for 3 days as some of you might know i had a problem with my plane tickets-as in all the writting had disappeared off them due to carrying them around for the past 3months! Well its all sorted now so just got to make sure my new tickets dont get destroyed! Im in ...

Woo hoo im in Tokyo! I just arrived here on the train from a small town on the coast called Kamakura. I fancied a break from the busy cities before heading for the big one! I was stuck in Osaka for 3 days as some of you might know i had a problem with my plane tickets-as in all the writting had disappeared off them due to carrying them around for the past 3months! Well its all sorted now so just got to make sure my new tickets dont get destroyed! Im in ...

Hi everyone! sorry its　been so long since my last postcard! well im finally in Japan. The boat ride lasted over 50 hours and it went quite quickly. I spent most of the time talking with some japanese　and chinese people, playing ping pong, and watching dvds. The boat was alot better than i was expecting. It even had a sauna onboard. The second night the sea was really rough and many people got ill. I arrived in Kobe, Japan, yesterday aroun...

Hi everybody! Well i made it over the border into China not a problem. Its quite a culture shock when you first arrive as now everything is written in chinese characters and next to nobody speaks english. I made it across the border to a nearby town to get the train to Nanning.I borded the huge double decker train and it took about 5 hours to reach Nanning. Nanning is the capital Guanxi province and is huge. It is not a tourist city and me and a brazilian gu...

Hey all! Im now in the very north of Vietnam in the mountain village of Sapa. Ive been trekking here for the past 3 days. I went on a 2 day tour of the mountains around Sapa, staying one night in a family home and one night in the hotel back in Sapa. The first day i treked for about 5 hours through the steep rice fields and down into the valleys. The views are spectacular!We eventually arrived at a small village where we will spend the night in a wooden ho...