Temple in Bali

We hired a driver for a day our first destination was a temple. The pictures below are from Pura Ulun Danu Bratan. The temple is on the shore of Lake Bratan.

Bali

Our flight landed in Bali late at night. We decided to spend the night close to the airport in Jimbaran. We had dinner at the beach. There was a band playing latin music (Maná). The next morning we went walking to explore the area near our hotel. We went back to the hotel and spent …

Singapore II

I took these pictures on our way to another orchid display. It was a very hot day but also very windy. I’m glad I was able to take these dragonflies. This is a Malayan water monitor lizard. Here is some information about it monitor-lizards It was during the week when we went to the garden so …

Singapore

Our flight from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore left 5:20PM. It was a short flight, a little bit over an hour. The entrance to the metro station.  There were signs like this everywhere the nice part is that in Singapore it works! We had dinner at a mall nearby our hotel. It was almost 9PM. One of …

Chiang Mai 1

We were back at our hotel from the elephant sanctuary around 3:00PM. We spent 2 nights in Chiang Mai so we had to see as much as we could in a short period of time. As in any other city we visited during this trip, we were like birds just stopping by to take a peak …

Chiang Mai

On our way to Chiang Mai. Beautiful mountains and clouds. After checking in our hotel we went to the night market. Chiang Mai ended up being one of our favorite places during this trip. The visit to an elephant sanctuary was one of the highlights. We wanted to see the elephants but didn’t like that in …

Osaka II

We went all around Osaka this day. We went for breakfast to Kurumon Ichiba Market. Fresh wasabi and beautiful persimmons.  The sushi looked delicious and I couldn’t eat much. After 2 days taking antihistamines I woke up with very bad vertigo. I was really scared and afraid that raw fish might worsen how bad I …

Osaka

A very nice city with a little bit of everything. Smaller than Tokyo and a very comfortable place. The center was a small network of pedestrian streets that drew a broad cross section of society in the evenings. Here are the bicycle police impounding illegally parked bikes. Nearly everything in Japan seemed to have an …

Kyoto

As soon as we arrived in Kyoto we had to go to a pharmacy for an antihistamine 🙁  I had a very bad allergic reaction to bug bites in my legs that I got in Virginia a week before leaving to Asia. My ankles were swollen and the bug bites were itching badly. Pharmacies in …