Monday, March 26, 2012

Nagasaki by day, Dutch trader houses, amazing festival floats

Japan is a country like no other, scratch the thin veneer of staid calm and there's always something to blow one's mind.

The old houses are preserved Dutch traders'




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Nagasaki Chinese New Year lantern festival

pigs heads, shark fins, acrobats...

where was Europe 4,000 years ago when the Chinese were inventing spaghetti?


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going to Nagasaki

ferry to the volcano
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