It is hard to tell just how white the sand is
Fraser Island, stunning!
Fraser Island is a stunning sand island just off Hervey Bay in Queensland, about 4 hours North of Brisbane. It is the world largest sand island and has no bitumen…
Mount Mitsutoge, a view of Fuji.
Mitsutoge-Yama is one of the closest mountains to Mount Fuji and has fantastic views of it, the lakes, the Minami Alps, Yatsu-Ga-Take and pretty much everything else in the area.
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Enzansō
A lesson learnt this trip, don’t come to Japan in June, Tokyo is extremely hot and wet but most of the mountains are still covered in snow and not able to be climbed.
I wanted to go back into the Northern Alps but pretty much every route I investigated I eventually reached someone in the area and they told me that the route is still closed. It was in one of those research sessions that I came across the Otame-Ginza route from Nagano.
Down the street in Tokyo...
In Tokyo
Day 2 - In Tokyo Tokyo Monday, 4 July 2011 My first day back in Tokyo, nothing structured here - just my thoughts... Down the street in Tokyo... Where did…
Lush, green and humid, Malaysia
Getting itchy feet again so time for a trip, this time to Malaysia. The first stop is of course Kuala Lumpur. For some reason I never get particularly inspired by…
Home…
On the plane on the final leg back to Sydney. As I think everyone does, I always have mixed feelings coming home. A bit of sadness for the trip being…