Tamlyns on Tour
Our private water park!
Whilst staying by Khao Yai National Park, we visited Scenical World, a massive water park nestled in the hills. We have never been anywhere where we've had the entire place to ourselves, let alone a huge tourist attraction of this size! Yippee!!
Tranquillity at Khao Yai National Park
Escaping Bangkok, we have been stunned by the beautiful scenery only a few hours out of the city. Our home for five nights (www.phachuanchom.com) sat at the foot of mountains, on the edge of Khao Yai National Park. Established in 1962 as Thailand's first national...
Bustling Bangkok
Arriving back at a place he thinks of as a second home (thank you again Pri and Tim for 'hosting' him whilst you lived here all those years ago!), Jake was super excited to go out exploring the minute we arrived in Bangkok. The rest of us were a little...
Crazy Osaka!
As a final stop en route to Kansai airport, where we'll bid an extremely sad farewell to this beautiful and very special country, we stopped one night in downtown Osaka and didn't know what hit us!! The 2nd largest city in the country, it greets you with how you...
Super special Kinosaki
After wandering around the 'hallways' of this traditional Japanese town in yukata (light cotton kimonos) for 2 days, we feel totally relaxed. We stayed in a beautiful ryokan (traditional Japanese inn), but it felt like the townscape was one big ryokan: the station is...
Miyajima – Unesco World Heritage Site
Whilst in Hiroshima, we thought we'd visit one of Japan's most iconic sights: the floating torii (Shinto shrine gate) of Itsukushima-jinja. After a 20 minute walk from our apartment, a 20 min JR line journey (not sure we've mentioned the JR network yet, perhaps...
Inspirational Hiroshima
Unexpectant of this city, we have been inspired by the overwhelming sense it's given us of the power of the human spirit to overcome adversity. Sobering in the extreme, the Peace Memorial Park and museums gave us the opportunity to learn about the city's tragic...
Delights of the Inland Sea
We lucked out finding (http://abnb.me/EVmg/NsvVrvUegG) a place run by Brett, Sayako and their little boy Ren. They greeted us at the train station and bent over backwards during our stay: making us feel welcome, helping us with our Japanese language, informing us...
Birthday celebrations in style!
Happy birthday Lola! What a way to celebrate: professionally dressed in a yukata, hair do and all, and a lesson in Japanese tea ceremonies. Super special day!
Charming Kyoto
In Kyoto we found all those gorgeous things you associate with Japan: ancient temples, colourful shrines, peaceful gardens, cobbled alleyways, wooden traditional houses, cute bridges over canals and beautifully dressed girls in yukata, but we also discovered a city...
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