The Jigokudani Monkey Park is one of Nagano's most popular outdoor destinations. Located in the hot spring village of Kanbayashi Onsen, the monkey park itself doesn’t have many trees that turn colour however Kanbayashi does, boasting some truly beautiful trees. This small hot spring village off...
During winter it morphs into a low-key ski resort. It’s the Tom Hanks of mountains–giving a smile a wink, and a wave to tourists who drive over the causeway at its base. And then there’s Hallasan (한라산) here on Jeju (제주). This is a mountain that dwarfs Pleasant...
Toyama Prefecture is rich in nature. It is rich in seafood, with firefly squid and white shrimp in the spring, rock oysters in the summer, red snow crab in the fall, and fresh and delicious seafood such as winter yellowtail in the winter sea. The Ainokur
but it’s also home to some excellent ski slopes and resorts. The Snowy Mountains in New South Wales are the highest mountain range in Australia, with ski resorts like Charlotte Pass (Australia’s oldest ski resort) and Thredbo (one of the largest in New South Wales) in Kosciuszko...
The Frida Kahlo Museum doesn’t contain any original works of art, but it does embrace the life and works of Frida Kahlo; giving visitors a chance to learn about her controversial art through photos, videos, diagrams, and collages.Everything is very artistic and colorful, right through to ...
but I find mountain coasters utterly fascinating. And it definitely stands as a unique entry in NJ's roller coaster rolodex. Using hand brakes, riders control their own speed barreling down the course. Meanwhile, the picturesque scenery of Mountain Creek Waterpark and Ski Resort makes for a be...
Some of the people with whom I was close and hung out with from that era, I have lost touch with them, or our relationship has become less close due to distance. Some folks – I had completely forgotten about their existence! Does anyone send postcards anymore? Yet while I recycled all...
Not only does it reinforce the behavior of begging but oftentimes I doubt where the money goes. In India, we were told stories of adults who ran child beggar rings, commandeering the day’s take and leaving the children ill cared for until they were too old to appeal to the sympathies ...
“It really does look like it’s laying down.” (See #1 above. Rinse, lather, and repeat.) Dom took us out shore fishing the next morning, first to a lagoon reputed to have fat snook. (They really are called that, so no, it isn’t snook-shaming, and if this even crossed your ...
are to go splash around in the work that theOxford Internet Institute is doing with gig economy work. Also to look up LaborPro training and see if I can find out the tools a shift manager uses when putting together their shifts for the coming weeks and months. What does the system ...