Around the World for a 3rd Time (Japan and Taiwan)
(Chipmunk in Shiretoko) JAPAN Japan is our favorite Asian country, most likely because it is so well organized and so sparkling clean. So much so, that I am now making an awful statement: “you can eat from the public bathroom floors” in of all places, Tokyo, the largest city in the world with 38 million inhabitants. (lake views in Shiretoko were abundant) (Sea of Okhotsk from our hotel window direction Russia’s Sakhalin island) (another Shiretoko lake view) When we started our 3 month trip we bypassed Japan and flew into Beijing, although we planned going back to Tokyo for a few days, with as our main destination this time Hokkaido, to see the highly lauded fall colors and the timing for that allowed us a few weeks to do China first. (Our guide Suganuma acting out Bear droppings, we refused to do that for a picture) (Sandee acting’s out bear scratching) (Do not know anymore what scene this is supposed to be) In the most eastern top