Setsubun is a Japanese seasonal festival/holiday that celebrates the start of spring. It is celebrated on either the 3rd of 4th of February, which is 1 day before the start of Spring according to the Japanese Lunar Calendar. Basically like a mish-mash of Halloween, new years and “groundhog day” (silly Americans..). Pretty interesting to hear about it!
Daily Archive for February 18th, 2008
Even though this site has been around since late 2003, and even though She’s finished both (!) of her RTW Trips, I’m still recommending this site as an excellent read, and an excellent source of information. Follow her on her first trip through Japan, China and the rest of Asia, and then follow her on her trip through parts of Asia and Africa. She has some lovely photographs as well (thanks to her quality D-SLR Cameras and some good camera-woman-ship) for you to peruse.
I’ve been thinking a little bit (a lot) and looking at maps and stuff, and I’ve been playing around with different Ideas for routes…So i want to write down my idea[s] to keep them somewhere where i can look at them and criticize them, etc. So here’s my first Route idea:
Australia —> Indonesia –> Malaysia –> Brunei –> Philippines –> Singapore –> Malaysia –> Thailand –> Laos –> Cambodia –> Vietnam –> China –> Hong Kong –> Taiwan –> Japan –> S. Korea –> –> China –> Kyrgystan –> Kazakhstan –> Uzbekistan –> Tajikistan –> China –> Myanmar –> Tibet –> Nepal –> Bhutan –> Bangladesh –> India –> Pakistan –> Afghanistan –> Iran –> Turkey –> Greece –> Albania –> Macedonia –> Bulgaria –> Romania –> Romania –> Belgrade –> Montenegro –> Bosnia –> Croatia –> Italy –> Switzerland –> Liechtenstein –> Austria –> Slovenia –> Hungary –> Slovakia –> Poland –> Czech Republic –> Germany –> Denmark –> Netherlands –> Belgium –> Luxembourg –> France –> Monaco –> Andorra –> Spain –> Portugal –> Gibraltar –> Spain –> France –> United Kingdom