<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226</id><updated>2011-07-31T01:36:48.648-07:00</updated><category term='o-type girl/Hamonjo'/><category term='レッド　ジャンクジョン'/><category term='Travelhttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUhlQIGjlI/AAAAAAAAASw/NK0xlYSAXYM/s200/IMG_5362.JPG'/><category term='airline ticket infos'/><category term='travel magazine'/><category term='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/Sw5ViOPljKI/AAAAAAAAAUo/y9R2kLmH38g/s1600/IMG_5049.JPG'/><category term='around japan'/><category term='Travel'/><category term='red junction'/><category term='Screen writing'/><title type='text'>red junction</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>33</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-4040628503323602514</id><published>2010-09-12T17:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-12T17:22:46.422-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='o-type girl/Hamonjo'/><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;h3 class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"&gt;&lt;span class="UIIntentionalStory_Names"&gt;                      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="UIStory_Message"&gt;‎'Hamonjo - Broken Gate' the Yakuza crime/drama has a new co-writer and is in the re-writing stage...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;after a few month off the project, we finally got back to the Yakuza crime/drama 'Hamonjo'.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not knowing for a long time what direction the story should go, it ended up being a short story trilogy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"Not really happy with that thought, I decided to go back to the first script titled '0-type Girl' and take a new re-write on the project". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"The stories would fit together well, we would get around the flaws from the first draft of '0-Type' and could add some new ideas that came from 'Hamonjo'. There were some parts that could be used and work great, but it needed more character-driven parts." &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"There is a also a complete new take on the story. After a few in-dept interviews with some 'Yakuza'tied people I decided to take a complete new take and merge the '0-type Girl' story into the Hamonjo draft". &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"There are still some very good parts and laughs that won't get lost, and it would give the story some comedy that was missing." &lt;/span&gt;said the writer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Newly teamed up with a co-writer from Take One production, the story is now going into a re-writing process. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;"we are very exited about the project, and with the help of the new co-writer we hope to give the character a more human appearance."&lt;/span&gt; so the writer about the story.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are not much about the story yet, but there will be some up-dates in the near future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;redjunction stuff writer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-4040628503323602514?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/4040628503323602514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=4040628503323602514' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/4040628503323602514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/4040628503323602514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2010/09/hamonjo-broken-gate-yakuza-crimedrama.html' title=''/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-7560338207378541827</id><published>2010-05-18T18:07:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-18T18:33:24.416-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Screen writing'/><title type='text'>Writing on a spy-trilogy</title><content type='html'>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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Think of the James bond movies, a larger than life hero, the Bourne trilogy – There are so many ideas out there, set in the real world about counter intelligent and spies…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;I’m in the middle of writing the screenplay &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;‘pirated’&lt;/span&gt;, stuck with research, I read so many articles and came up with ideas and stories that include actual events woven into a spy story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;When I started to do research on ‘pirated’ I knew that this would be a difficult matter, especially that it involves &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Somalia&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; pirates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Its still on the news and many people read about it, so to make it as ‘real’ as possible would be a challenge for me. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The character development is an important part of the story, should it be a larger than life hero or more like the beaten down guy who has a lot of troubles he carries with him?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;When I thought about the character, I knew that I would use this character again. It wouldn’t be the only story he would appear.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;To do that, think about the screenplay as a trilogy, the character has to be rich in background – what carried you to the first story might doesn’t work in the second, so there has to be more about this character to explore and more conflict to be solved.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Right now I have the idea for a trilogy: the first part &lt;i style=""&gt;‘pirated’&lt;/i&gt; deals with the Somali pirates Middle East and &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Europe&lt;/st1:place&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style=";font-family:Century;font-size:10.5pt;"  lang="EN-US" &gt;The second part ‘on burning land’ will lead us to Asia or Africa and the third part ‘ PeaceKeepers’ will lead us into a war driven region.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-7560338207378541827?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/7560338207378541827/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=7560338207378541827' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/7560338207378541827'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/7560338207378541827'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2010/05/blog-post.html' title='Writing on a spy-trilogy'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-6951753635093082458</id><published>2010-03-14T18:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-14T18:12:09.850-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Screen writing'/><title type='text'>New Screenplay - Pirated -</title><content type='html'>Its called&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 'Pirated' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After finishing my script &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;'the place'&lt;/span&gt; there is the long process of re-writing... during this time I started with my research for a new story... this time it's going to be a spy thriller, set in Europa and Somalia.&lt;br /&gt;I followed the news about the pirate attacks in Somalia, and as further I investigated in the story as more potential for a spy story I got out of it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My writing journey around the world, started in Japan, went to US finally arrived in Europa. And Isn't it a cool place to start a spy novel... thinking about the &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;bourne&lt;/span&gt; movies, 007,  &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Ronin&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;up dates follow soon.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-6951753635093082458?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6951753635093082458/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=6951753635093082458' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6951753635093082458'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6951753635093082458'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-screenplay-pirated.html' title='New Screenplay - Pirated -'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-6720177590134333647</id><published>2010-03-14T17:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-16T06:16:04.624-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>The Cina Tibet Railway Trip Part 7 - The Potala Palace</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S5-DvZnTldI/AAAAAAAAAaI/3vc10rIjTN8/s1600-h/IMG_4559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S5-DvZnTldI/AAAAAAAAAaI/3vc10rIjTN8/s320/IMG_4559.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S5-DuxX0VGI/AAAAAAAAAaE/s6DxmIepwD4/s1600-h/IMG_4552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S5-DuxX0VGI/AAAAAAAAAaE/s6DxmIepwD4/s320/IMG_4552.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Today our goal was the Potala Palace, once the heart and soul of Lhasa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First, how to get into the Potala Palace:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh boy, this is a long story.&lt;br /&gt;We had to get tickets first. Our tour guide did it for us, so we were able to enter. But we had to show them our passports. Then there was the usual security check. Done!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the stupid part began. We had a time limit, so it was only possible to stay for 50 minutes inside the Potala. If you would go without guide you have as much time as you want. So from the entrance to the red building we already spend 20 minutes for climb the stairs to the entrance. And again, enter permission, passport…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Once inside we were only allowed to see the red part. The white part, the government part, was forbidden. And there were cameras and microphones everywhere. It was not possible for the guide to speak free. I didn’t know if it was only a scare tactic or if the Chinese really check everything they say to the tourists. The Dali lama long gone, left this place as an empty shell, run by the Chinese government. There were still some very expressive Buddha statues in there but it was not the same anymore.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It’s sad, but we made it to the roof of the world without the feeling that this place still lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lhasa, August 12. 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-6720177590134333647?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6720177590134333647/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=6720177590134333647' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6720177590134333647'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6720177590134333647'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2010/03/cina-tibet-railway-trip-part-7-potala.html' title='The Cina Tibet Railway Trip Part 7 - The Potala Palace'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S5-DvZnTldI/AAAAAAAAAaI/3vc10rIjTN8/s72-c/IMG_4559.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-5595955852135103171</id><published>2010-02-23T17:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T18:25:06.962-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Screen writing'/><title type='text'>Screenwriting 'The Place'</title><content type='html'>Hello everyone, I finally finished my 3rd screenplay titled&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 'The Place'&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its a suspense/horror script, written for a smaller budget, with location in the U.S. After the first script &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;'O-Type Girl'&lt;/span&gt; a comedy who deals with the culture difference between japan and the west, the second script&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; 'Haikyo'&lt;/span&gt; a supernatural/ghost mystery about Japanese ghosts I finally came to the U.S., where the 3rd script is located.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" equiv="Content-Type"&gt;&lt;meta content="Word.Document" name="ProgId"&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Generator"&gt;&lt;meta content="Microsoft Word 11" name="Originator"&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CTeacher%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;style&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */  @font-face 	{font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; 	panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4; 	mso-font-alt:"MS Mincho"; 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China Trip Pictures</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y6oP-2DCI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/rXo72yQ08iU/s1600-h/IMG_5181.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y6oP-2DCI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/rXo72yQ08iU/s200/IMG_5181.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439427650604370978" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y6m8bUj-I/AAAAAAAAAZo/Ghq9PVjOxxA/s200/Terracotta+Warriors.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439427628175232994" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y6nQFuDEI/AAAAAAAAAZw/8k7Oah9ChcU/s1600-h/The+Town.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y6nQFuDEI/AAAAAAAAAZw/8k7Oah9ChcU/s200/The+Town.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439427633453337666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y6mCl8nbI/AAAAAAAAAZg/05XrbIRWbGk/s200/IMG_2139.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439427612650544562" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Some pictures I took on my China/Tibet Trip on my Canon EOS 50D.  Developed in Aperture 3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-2126301120866114957?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/2126301120866114957/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=2126301120866114957' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/2126301120866114957'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/2126301120866114957'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2010/02/tibet-china-trip-pictures.html' title='Tibet &amp; China Trip Pictures'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y6oP-2DCI/AAAAAAAAAZ4/rXo72yQ08iU/s72-c/IMG_5181.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-6860739091653045940</id><published>2010-02-17T19:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-23T17:15:38.305-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Pictures from Tibet</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y5bAuib-I/AAAAAAAAAZU/nVH41pmMZ5k/s1600-h/IMG_4570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y5bAuib-I/AAAAAAAAAZU/nVH41pmMZ5k/s320/IMG_4570.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Here are some digitally re-mastered pictures of my China Tibet Trip with Aperture 3.  Haven't had the time to check all the 200 new features that come with the program;) but some apply in the pictures, I posted on my blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y5bQN5FWI/AAAAAAAAAZY/YkjvxZJlgGA/s1600-h/IMG_4733.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y5bQN5FWI/AAAAAAAAAZY/YkjvxZJlgGA/s320/IMG_4733.jpg" border="0" width="320" height="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y5bgo0vqI/AAAAAAAAAZc/9pMf1XHqdcQ/s1600-h/Potala%20Palace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y5bgo0vqI/AAAAAAAAAZc/9pMf1XHqdcQ/s320/Potala%20Palace.jpg" border="0" width="213" height="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-6860739091653045940?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6860739091653045940/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=6860739091653045940' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6860739091653045940'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6860739091653045940'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2010/02/pictures-from-tibet.html' title='Pictures from Tibet'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/S3y5bAuib-I/AAAAAAAAAZU/nVH41pmMZ5k/s72-c/IMG_4570.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-5596457387118503503</id><published>2009-12-07T22:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-08T00:10:34.574-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>The China Tibet Train Story - Part 6 New Tingri</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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It was a small town and the last stop before the Mt. Everest base camp. I didn’t know how many people were living there, but it was definitely less than the barking dogs who kept us awake all night long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-5596457387118503503?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/5596457387118503503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=5596457387118503503' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/5596457387118503503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/5596457387118503503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/12/china-tibet-train-story-part-6-new.html' title='The China Tibet Train Story - Part 6 New Tingri'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/Sx4J2m3ulHI/AAAAAAAAAWw/GVgAjYZ_tWU/s72-c/IMG_4842.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-5253784058051063988</id><published>2009-12-04T02:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-07T22:23:17.287-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>The China Tibet Train Story - Part 5 Road Trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="213" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/Sxjdz10Vb4I/AAAAAAAAAVE/bjuXGKJQ63s/s320/IMG_4661.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;All started about 5 days ago, when our Tibetan guide and our driver picked us up in front of the Hotel. We packed our bag, put our gear in the trunk of a black &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Toyota&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; cruiser, everyone seemed to drive up here, and drove off.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The first stop on our literary was &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Lake&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Gyantse&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. It was actually a very nice spot, but despite the horde of wild Chinese tourists who took pictures like crazy and a 40 Yuan fee just to go out of the car rated the whole thing down. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The second stop was in a small town called Gyantse. We checked into a hotel and spend the night there.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;After the check-in we walked around the old city. The small path next to the houses was doted with cows and stray dogs and the still water in front of the old houses seemed to be the perfect herd for all kind of bacteria. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;The next day was a two hour drive from Gyantse to the Sakya Monastery. It was a small detour, but we managed to get there for lunch. The guide took us on a tour, to an old monastery and for an extra 10 Yuan we cold see the secret ‘wall of scripts’.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;A few hours later we arrived in Shigatse, a town mostly controlled by the Chinese. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;It had the first pedestrian zone, I have ever seen, who was not actually built for the pedestrians rather for cars and trucks. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;There was a nice walking course along the city, up a hill that was covered with prayer flags and prayer wheels along the way.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CTeacher%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"&gt;&lt;/link&gt;&lt;style&gt; &lt;!--  /* Font Definitions */  @font-face 	{font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; 	panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4; 	mso-font-alt:"MS Mincho"; 	mso-font-charset:128; 	mso-generic-font-family:roman; 	mso-font-pitch:fixed; 	mso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;} @font-face 	{font-family:Century; 	panose-1:2 4 6 4 5 5 5 2 3 4; 	mso-font-charset:0; 	mso-generic-font-family:roman; 	mso-font-pitch:variable; 	mso-font-signature:647 0 0 0 159 0;} @font-face 	{font-family:"\@ＭＳ 明朝"; 	panose-1:2 2 6 9 4 2 5 8 3 4; 	mso-font-charset:128; 	mso-generic-font-family:roman; 	mso-font-pitch:fixed; 	mso-font-signature:-1610612033 1757936891 16 0 131231 0;}  /* Style Definitions */  p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal 	{mso-style-parent:""; 	margin:0mm; 	margin-bottom:.0001pt; 	text-align:justify; 	text-justify:inter-ideograph; 	mso-pagination:none; 	font-size:10.5pt; 	mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; 	font-family:Century; 	mso-fareast-font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; 	mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; 	mso-font-kerning:1.0pt;}  /* Page Definitions */  @page 	{mso-page-border-surround-header:no; 	mso-page-border-surround-footer:no;} @page Section1 	{size:612.0pt 792.0pt; 	margin:99.25pt 30.0mm 30.0mm 30.0mm; 	mso-header-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; 	mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 	{page:Section1;} &lt;/style&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Century; font-size: 10.5pt;"&gt;On our way back we had lunch at a restaurant called 3 eyes. It wasn’t the best Yak burger I ever had and the stuff was anything else but friendly, but hey, I don’t know how many tourists they put trough a day. I guess they just had enough from the napping and complaining tourists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-2150263839996636635?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/2150263839996636635/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=2150263839996636635' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/2150263839996636635'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/2150263839996636635'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/12/china-tibet-train-story-part-5-road.html' title='The China Tibet Train Story - Part 5 Road Trip'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SxjdyeAKJeI/AAAAAAAAAU4/TQPmIxVeO9o/s72-c/IMG_4574.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-5387534832661311915</id><published>2009-11-25T17:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-02T16:31:16.215-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/Sw5ViOPljKI/AAAAAAAAAUo/y9R2kLmH38g/s1600/IMG_5049.JPG'/><title type='text'>The China Tibet Train Story - Part 4 On the road to Mt. 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Just to see the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Mt.&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Everest&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; if front of you is something you should’t miss. It really was worth the adventure.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;b style=""&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span  lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;We were bout screaming when we stood on the Mt. Everest Base Camp at 5600m.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;All the lack of oxygen we had to face on our way up was gone. We really did it, traveled by train from &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Shanghai&lt;/st1:city&gt; all the way to &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;Tibet&lt;/st1:country-region&gt; and to the &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Mt.&lt;/st1:placetype&gt; &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Everest&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;. It was literally breathtaking.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;To the “main Base Camp” it was just a two hours walk and the two hours were the hardest hike I ever did. Breathing felt heavy and every move was so hard due the lack of oxygen.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;We stayed for the last few days at an average height of 4000m, so I got used to it.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;We did a 5000m pass a few hours before, walked to the top of a hill to get an incredible amazing view and a few pics from &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Mt.&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;  &lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;Everest&lt;/st1:placename&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; from the distance. This was one of my life changing memories and also a proof that were a will is there is a way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="" lang="EN-US"&gt;I dreamed about this moment for quiet some time and when it came for real it was so a relief. We really did it!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-5387534832661311915?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/5387534832661311915/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=5387534832661311915' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/5387534832661311915'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/5387534832661311915'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/11/china-tibet-train-story-part-4-on-road.html' title='The China Tibet Train Story - Part 4 On the road to Mt. Everest'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/Sw5S08X5GZI/AAAAAAAAAT4/ZcqyCdIdqwU/s72-c/IMG_4859.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-782478981836361455</id><published>2009-11-18T18:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T03:14:53.016-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travelhttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUhlQIGjlI/AAAAAAAAASw/NK0xlYSAXYM/s200/IMG_5362.JPG'/><title type='text'>The China Tibet Train Story - Part 3 Eine Story aus Tibet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUemQ6-TYI/AAAAAAAAASg/KB461xvpGgw/s1600/IMG_4565.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUemQ6-TYI/AAAAAAAAASg/KB461xvpGgw/s200/IMG_4565.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405760570454330754" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUelgWFEBI/AAAAAAAAASY/NhgtMM44d2o/s200/IMG_4498.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405760557414682642" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUhlQIGjlI/AAAAAAAAASw/NK0xlYSAXYM/s200/IMG_5362.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405763851595976274" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUelADMKRI/AAAAAAAAASQ/sVu1l1qQeos/s200/IMG_4492.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405760548745521426" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUhkjwyzfI/AAAAAAAAASo/Z33Zfu7AXlE/s200/IMG_5330.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405763839687052786" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUiPUun8xI/AAAAAAAAAS4/byQOSfsYjiw/s200/IMG_5365.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405764574385795858" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Ein paar Gedanken aus &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Lhasa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt; und ein Aufschrei fuer das unterdrueckte &lt;/span&gt;&lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;Tibet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; "&gt;Als wir mit dem Zug in Lhasa angekommen waren,wurden wir von einer Herde wildgewordener chinesischen Touristen ueberrumpelt, die alles fotografierten was sich ihnen in den Weg stellte. Das Militaer, die kommunistische Mao Armee, hatte alle Haende voll zu tun die wildgewordenen Hobby Fotografen einzuweisen und zu den Bussen zu bringen, die am Ausgang des Bahnhofes warteten. Es war nicht erlaubt einfach drauflos zu Fotografieren.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Es war auch der erste Touch mit der harten Realitaet, wie die Dinge hier gehandhabt wurden und die Tibetaner unter der eisernen Hand der Chinesen &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;leiden&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; mussten.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Laut den Ansagen im Zug, wie harmonievoll China und Tibet zusammenleben und das die Chinesen mit der Eisenbahnerschliessung den Tibetanern nur helfen, musste Tibet das Friedvollste Land sein. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;So was machen dann die fielen Soldaten hier? Was machen die X mundert Mao-Waechter auf den Daechern ueber &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Lhasa&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; unter ihren “Carlsberg” Sonnenschirmen oder die bewaffneten Soldaten die die strassen patroulierten? &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Sie kummern sich um das Wohl und die Sicherheit der Touristen wurde uns gesagt.. Oh, gut zu wissen, da fuehle ich &lt;st1:state st="on"&gt;mich&lt;/st1:state&gt; ja noch sicherer im sonst schon friedlichen &lt;st1:country-region st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Tibet&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:country-region&gt;.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Das die Tibetaner keinen Reisepass bekommen haengt sicher auch davon ab das sie gar keinen wollen. Wer will schon so ein sicheres und &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:placename st="on"&gt;harmonievolles&lt;/st1:placename&gt; &lt;st1:placetype st="on"&gt;Land&lt;/st1:placetype&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt; verlassen und in der boesen weiten Welt herumreisen?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Es hat auch geheissen es koennte Probleme geben wenn wir die Soldaten fotografieren. Ist doch verstaentlich. Unsere einen haetten sicher auch nicht freude wenn wir sie am schlafen unter ihren Sonnenschirmen knipsen wuerden. Wuerde ja ein schlechtes Image auf die eiserne Armee werfen…nun ja, kann ja nichts machen, bin ja nur ein Tourist. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style=" ;font-family:Century;font-size:10.5pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style=" ;font-family:Century;font-size:10.5pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i style=""&gt;&lt;span style=" ;font-family:Century;font-size:10.5pt;" lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-782478981836361455?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/782478981836361455/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=782478981836361455' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/782478981836361455'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/782478981836361455'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/11/china-tibet-train-story-part-3-eine.html' title='The China Tibet Train Story - Part 3 Eine Story aus Tibet'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SwUemQ6-TYI/AAAAAAAAASg/KB461xvpGgw/s72-c/IMG_4565.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-5063768074258769102</id><published>2009-11-04T01:54:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-04T02:12:18.349-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='レッド　ジャンクジョン'/><title type='text'>red junction レッド　ジャンクジョン</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SvFTd61_gWI/AAAAAAAAARo/AZMGufiXtQg/s1600-h/redjunciton+moive_img_0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor:pointer; 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Is he getting crazy or is there really somebody calling out for him? He drifts further away from reality till he meets a young girl named Aki, who struggles with her own demons. When they discover why they were brought together they reveal something that better should be left alone.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-6057211880299409401?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6057211880299409401/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=6057211880299409401' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6057211880299409401'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6057211880299409401'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/10/haikyo.html' title='Haikyo'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/Suq0yRukUgI/AAAAAAAAAPw/fe3zgI1lk5Q/s72-c/Haikyo+vers+1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-8108583446079416173</id><published>2009-07-13T07:23:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-11-19T03:13:52.364-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='around japan'/><title type='text'>Haikyo "Queen Chateau Soapland" Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SltD8MxmF1I/AAAAAAAAAPY/vadpqsp4zPY/s1600-h/IMG_1938.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; 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city, close to the Keisei Department store. Nobody seems to pay attention to the abandoned 5 floor, castle like fairy tail brothel of a long lost era anymore. The entrance was easy to find, round the back trough the girl’s service entrance. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;It was my first Haiyko Expedition, and it was worth the experience and the thrill.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Entering trough the pitch black service entrance was the scariest part.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;Once arrived in the main hall, there were stairs leading up to the roof. It really seemed the people who owned the place left in a hurry and left all the interior and belongings/garbage here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;I just can imagine what things went down in that place and why they left so suddenly. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-6459358258939345254?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6459358258939345254/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=6459358258939345254' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6459358258939345254'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6459358258939345254'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/07/haikyo-queen-chateau-soapland-part-1.html' title='Haikyo &quot;Queen Chateau Soapland&quot; 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I finally decided what company I'm going to take for the Trip to Tibet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Company is called Tibetan Connections and its located in Xining. 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Everest Base camp along the friendship highway:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lhasa-Yamdrok Lake-Shigatse-Everest&lt;br /&gt;Day 1: Take the train from Xining-Lhasa&lt;br /&gt;Day 2: Arrive in Lhasa in the evening&lt;br /&gt;Day 3: Lhasa&lt;br /&gt;Day 4: Lhasa&lt;br /&gt;Day 5: Lhasa-Yamdrok Lake-Gyantse&lt;br /&gt;Day 6: Gyantse-Sakya&lt;br /&gt;Day 7: Sakya-Everest Base Camp&lt;br /&gt;Day 8: Everest Base Camp-Lhatse&lt;br /&gt;Day 9: Lhatse-Shigatse&lt;br /&gt;Day 10: Shigatse-Lhasa&lt;br /&gt;Day 11: Depart from Lhasa&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Q: Tell me something about your company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tibetan Connections is a small Tibetan staffed and managed travel agency based in the Amdo region of Tibet in the city of Xining. We pride ourselves on being experts on Tibet travel. All of our staff are well traveled across the Tibetan Plateau. Our tours to Tibet all begin with taking the train from Xining to Lhasa. We do not begin any tours from Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghai or any other city in China besides Xining. Our goals are to provide an international level of customer service, give an excellent tour of Tibet while offering the best prices possible on Tibet tours. We are sure that if you compare our prices to other travel agencies, you will find our prices to be among the lowest. We partner with many Tibetan owned hotels, guesthouses and restaurants to ensure that your tourism money stays in Tibet and goes to the Tibetan people. A percentage of our business profits go to aid projects in the rural and nomadic regions of Tibet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt; Q: How much are the hotels on the trip? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hotels along the way from Lhasa to Everest usually offer double rooms (2 people) with private bathrooms for between Y200 and Y260 per night. There are also clean dorm style rooms available for between Y40 and Y50 per night per person.]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Q: How much would I have to spend on the meals along the way?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For meals, plan on spending between Y60 and Y85 per day per person. Of course, if you plan on eating at western restaurants the entire time, it will be more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Q: What kind of hotels would we get in Lhasa?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We partner with many Tibetan owned hotels in Tibet. In Lhasa, we put most of our customers at the Yak Hotel. The Yak Hotel is one of the best run hotels in Lhasa and is located in the heart of the Tibetan district, only a 3 minute walk from Lhasa's famous Jokhang Temple. Double rooms here are Y260 and dorm style rooms are around Y50 per night per person. If you let me know which type of room you prefer (double room with private bathroom or clean dorm style room) then I will make the reservations for you. Outside of Lhasa, each place will have 2 to 4 different choices to choose from. If you don't like a certain place, the driver can take you to another. I am quite sure you will like the Yak Hotel in Lhasa as it is one of the most famous hotels in Tibet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Q: How much would the whole trip cost me?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unfortunately, since I emailed you the price estimate on May 28th, the government is now requiring an additional permit for all foreigners traveling outside of Lhasa. Also, fuel prices in Tibet have gone up. With these two things I unfortunately have to slightly raise the price of your tour. The new price will be around Y325 more per person for a group of 4 than the original price I gave you. Even though I have had to slightly adjust the price, I am quite sure you will have a hard time find travel agency offering as low of prices as we do. We recently contacted the top 15 travel agencies arranging tours to Tibet and our prices were an average of Y800 per person cheaper for the route from Xining to Lhasa to Everest. Again, I am so sorry we have to change your price and I hope you understand that we do everything possible to keep our prices as low as possible. Here is the new prices for your tour to Everest:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1 person: Y8525                                &lt;br /&gt;2 people: Y4925/per                           &lt;br /&gt;3 people: Y3750/per&lt;br /&gt;4 people: Y3125per                           &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Prices include&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; hard sleeper train tickets from Xining to Lhasa, all permits, guide, vehicle and driver.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;Prices do not include&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; your meals, accommodations, air or train tickets departing Lhasa, the bus from Rongbhu Monastery to Everest Base Camp or entrance tickets into monasteries, temples or the Everest Nature Preserve.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING TRAVEL IN TIBET&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Travel regulations in Tibet change often and are unpredictable. Sometimes, though not often, monasteries or small towns close without any warning meaning that small changes will need to be made to your itinerary. Permit prices change, fuel prices surge, train tickets become difficult to obtain and additional taxes sometime come up which mean we may have to slightly adjust the price of your trip. All prices given &lt;b&gt;&lt;u&gt;are estimates&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/b&gt; and could change slightly before your departure date. Usually we have no problem getting train tickets to Lhasa, but occasionally they are sold out soon after they go on sale to the public. In that case we have ways of getting the train tickets still, but we have to pay additional surcharges and handling fees, which will add between Y50 and Y150 per person to the total price. We will always do our best to keep the price as close to the estimate as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Q: What kind of train tickets should we get?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soft sleeper tickets are extremely difficult to get. Many soft sleeper tickets are reserved for government and military officials. If we are able to get soft sleeper tickets, the price will be Y500 more per person. If we cannot get soft sleeper tickets, we will get hard sleeper tickets. Despite having an uncomfortable sounding name, hard sleeper berths are actually quite comfortable and are used by most foreign travelers to Tibet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Q: Are there any additional fees we would have to pay?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are 2 required tickets for the Everest Nature Preserve that the customer is responsible to pay. The first is a Y400 vehicle entrance fee. The second is a Y180 entrance fee per person. &lt;u&gt;The Everest Nature Preserve is the only place where the customers will be responsible to pay for the guide’s entrance ticket&lt;/u&gt;. All other places for the guide will be free. Our vehicles are only permitted to go to the “Tent City” located about 4kms past Rongbhu Monastery. From this “Tent City”, the only way to travel the remaining 3kms to Everest Base Camp is to take an environmentally safe bus that costs Y25 per person. This Y25 is not included in your tour price. You will also be responsible to pay for your guides Y25 bus fare as well. Your guide will need to accompany you to Base Camp.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entrance fees to monasteries and temples are not included in your tour price. Entrance fees usually range from Y20 per person to Y80 per person. The Potala Palace costs Y100 per person to enter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Q: How can I get there from Shanghai, and how long does it takes by train to Xining?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are two trains per day from Shanghai to Xining. The express train takes about 24 hours, but tickets for this train are difficult to get. The slower train takes about 32 hours.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Q: How about the payment for the trip?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am willing to waive our required deposit, but the full balance would need to be paid in Chinese RMB when you arrive at our office in Xining.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-2143309137637365714?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/2143309137637365714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=2143309137637365714' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/2143309137637365714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/2143309137637365714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/06/china-tibet-trip.html' title='The China Tibet Train Story first steps'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-4670731073317000577</id><published>2009-05-12T05:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-12T05:47:40.244-07:00</updated><title type='text'>advertisement</title><content type='html'>you can find more of my pictures on my Flickr Photostream on&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/redjunction&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/Sglv3PLOTPI/AAAAAAAAAMY/Gshodh6gP_0/s1600-h/flickr_logo_gamma.gif.v59899.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 134px; height: 200px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfmdtAZBbDI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/crSCfYHzM_k/s200/IMG_0683.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330465030494317618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/Sfmds1gcKdI/AAAAAAAAAMI/_DGR83LgiHU/s200/IMG_0631.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330465027572640210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfmdsvvPHsI/AAAAAAAAAMA/GtD_4bXgu4U/s200/IMG_0602.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330465026024087234" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The world largest Wisteria Tree in Ashikaga Flower Park Tochigi Prefecture&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;for more info check www.ashikaga.co.jp &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-8449891169439956139?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/8449891169439956139/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=8449891169439956139' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/8449891169439956139'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/8449891169439956139'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/04/tochigi-prefecture.html' title='Tochigi Prefecture'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfmdtAZBbDI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/crSCfYHzM_k/s72-c/IMG_0683.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-4622596112994352110</id><published>2009-04-26T03:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T02:54:42.689-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='around japan'/><title type='text'>Seaside Park</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfQzlGN5tII/AAAAAAAAALg/U1Y1baICZQ0/s1600-h/IMG_0561.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfQzlGN5tII/AAAAAAAAALg/U1Y1baICZQ0/s200/IMG_0561.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328940971503236226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfQzL1ER0aI/AAAAAAAAALY/hq5zTCDeBVQ/s1600-h/IMG_0500.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfQzL1ER0aI/AAAAAAAAALY/hq5zTCDeBVQ/s200/IMG_0500.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328940537402741154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I took the picture with a Canon EOS 50D and a SIGMA 18-200mm F3.5-6.3 DC Lens&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-4622596112994352110?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/4622596112994352110/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=4622596112994352110' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/4622596112994352110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/4622596112994352110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/04/seaside-park.html' title='Seaside Park'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfQzlGN5tII/AAAAAAAAALg/U1Y1baICZQ0/s72-c/IMG_0561.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-1446206919362119396</id><published>2009-04-24T22:32:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T02:55:02.511-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>The JSA</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXCoI87I/AAAAAAAAAKI/Z2a3C3QKxvk/s1600-h/DSC01671.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXCoI87I/AAAAAAAAAKI/Z2a3C3QKxvk/s200/DSC01671.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328538308765610930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXeB58tI/AAAAAAAAAKg/JZId21afQps/s1600-h/DSC01701.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXeB58tI/AAAAAAAAAKg/JZId21afQps/s200/DSC01701.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328538316121436882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFthtQcQI/AAAAAAAAAK4/tL53tqW2-u4/s1600-h/DSC01678.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFthtQcQI/AAAAAAAAAK4/tL53tqW2-u4/s200/DSC01678.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328538695065694466" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFtroYBEI/AAAAAAAAALA/k4uksb5kCKk/s1600-h/DSC01679.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFtroYBEI/AAAAAAAAALA/k4uksb5kCKk/s200/DSC01679.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328538697729573954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXd07uvI/AAAAAAAAAKo/bY-mkVpYxhI/s1600-h/DSC01706.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXd07uvI/AAAAAAAAAKo/bY-mkVpYxhI/s200/DSC01706.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328538316067027698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFtukv1cI/AAAAAAAAAKw/B57JQynnshQ/s1600-h/DSC01711.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFtukv1cI/AAAAAAAAAKw/B57JQynnshQ/s200/DSC01711.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328538698519664066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXFD7ILI/AAAAAAAAAKY/o8r8anQ3iV0/s1600-h/DSC01692.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXFD7ILI/AAAAAAAAAKY/o8r8anQ3iV0/s200/DSC01692.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328538309419016370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXFMc10I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/Ul7W6P6sKjo/s1600-h/DSC01659.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXFMc10I/AAAAAAAAAKQ/Ul7W6P6sKjo/s200/DSC01659.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328538309454780226" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The DMZ (&lt;span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1240637574_0"&gt;Demilitarized Zone&lt;/span&gt;) is the only connection between &lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1240637574_1"&gt;North and South Korea&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;The DMZ is about 248 km (155 miles) long and about 4 km (2.5 miles) wide and the most heavily militarized border in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;how to get there&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Buttons"&gt;&lt;span class="on down" style="display: block;" id="formatbar_Italic" title="Italic" onmouseover="ButtonHoverOn(this);" onmouseout="ButtonHoverOff(this);" onmouseup="" onmousedown="CheckFormatting(event);FormatbarButton('richeditorframe', this, 4);ButtonMouseDown(this);"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Italic" class="gl_italic" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;You can take a tour from Soul to the DMZ and the JSA (&lt;span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1240637574_2"&gt;Joint Security Area&lt;/span&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;It takes about one hour and includes a Korean style lunch.&lt;br /&gt;The bus drops you in the JSA, where you have to change to a military bus and sign some papers "In case of a kidnapping or death...." that the &lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1240637574_3"&gt;tour operator&lt;/span&gt; and the Military don't take responsibility and there you go into the JSA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its a &lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1240637574_4"&gt;guided tour&lt;/span&gt; from there and you are able to visit the conference Room and step "into &lt;span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%; cursor: pointer; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1240637574_5"&gt;north Korea&lt;/span&gt;". Everything is watched by the North &lt;span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1240637574_6"&gt;Korean&lt;/span&gt; Military, so they also might take pictures of you if you visit the JSA.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-1446206919362119396?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/1446206919362119396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=1446206919362119396' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/1446206919362119396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/1446206919362119396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/04/jsa.html' title='The JSA'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SfLFXCoI87I/AAAAAAAAAKI/Z2a3C3QKxvk/s72-c/DSC01671.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-7607361386935037286</id><published>2009-04-01T22:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T02:55:53.515-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Taipei in one day part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRNc1ys_I/AAAAAAAAAKA/aNdvyaE8y0U/s1600-h/DSCN2276.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRNc1ys_I/AAAAAAAAAKA/aNdvyaE8y0U/s200/DSCN2276.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319966351353361394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRNNK4pvI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/J5wZRNdwA1Y/s1600-h/DSCN2259.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRNNK4pvI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/J5wZRNdwA1Y/s200/DSCN2259.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319966347146864370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRM3e_IDI/AAAAAAAAAJw/NwPOLazE2qM/s1600-h/DSCN2243.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRM3e_IDI/AAAAAAAAAJw/NwPOLazE2qM/s200/DSCN2243.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319966341325594674" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRMqs5x6I/AAAAAAAAAJo/_beHqdToGec/s1600-h/DSCN2198.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRMqs5x6I/AAAAAAAAAJo/_beHqdToGec/s200/DSCN2198.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319966337894303650" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;left to right: Shilin Station, National Place Museum&lt;br /&gt;Lawson breakfast, View from Taipei 101&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-7607361386935037286?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/7607361386935037286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=7607361386935037286' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/7607361386935037286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/7607361386935037286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/04/taipei-in-one-day-part-2.html' title='Taipei in one day part 2'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRRNc1ys_I/AAAAAAAAAKA/aNdvyaE8y0U/s72-c/DSCN2276.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-752315410341997257</id><published>2009-04-01T22:29:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T02:56:12.946-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Taipei in one day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQPgBmz4I/AAAAAAAAAJg/E0Zc_93b2Z0/s1600-h/DSCN2224.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQPgBmz4I/AAAAAAAAAJg/E0Zc_93b2Z0/s200/DSCN2224.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319965287056330626" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQPqd7wzI/AAAAAAAAAJY/XZhcRe66hm8/s1600-h/DSCN2221.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQPqd7wzI/AAAAAAAAAJY/XZhcRe66hm8/s200/DSCN2221.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319965289859498802" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQPU6HBMI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/_3Tggr1QGzg/s1600-h/DSCN2197.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQPU6HBMI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/_3Tggr1QGzg/s200/DSCN2197.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319965284072096962" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQO_cElQI/AAAAAAAAAJI/ZmsEmTA3Kms/s1600-h/DSCN2174.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQO_cElQI/AAAAAAAAAJI/ZmsEmTA3Kms/s200/DSCN2174.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319965278308963586" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Before you start, buy a one-day Pass for the metro and bus.&lt;br /&gt;There are a few things to do in Taipei. If you are on a short visit here I can recommend you a one day Sight seen trip.&lt;br /&gt;Start to visit Taipei 101, because its not so crowded in the morning. Take the subway to the city Hall Station. Taipei 101 is that landmark from Taiwan. One of the tallest building in the world. Go to the observatory deck, (400 NTD) to get a nice view over Taipei City.&lt;br /&gt;Next stop Shilin and the National Place Museum. Take the bus from Shilin Station to the museum. Spend a few hours there and then go back to the Centre. Next stop, the C.K.S. Memorial Hall.&lt;br /&gt;If you want to go shopping now, head to Ximen, the heart of the city. Some shops are open until midnight.&lt;br /&gt;One day, and you have seen the most famous places in Taipei. But there are much more things to see and do like the midnight market, Temples, Danshui Boat Waft, the Lake Scenic area, Taipei Zoo, Museums etc…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-752315410341997257?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/752315410341997257/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=752315410341997257' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/752315410341997257'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/752315410341997257'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/04/taipei-in-one-day.html' title='Taipei in one day'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SdRQPgBmz4I/AAAAAAAAAJg/E0Zc_93b2Z0/s72-c/DSCN2224.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-6327876270388136085</id><published>2009-03-12T18:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-13T00:47:51.489-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>Transiberian Railway Trip (retro spec)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNDDpyleI/AAAAAAAAAHw/REkqlqQjTQ0/s1600-h/IMG_0775.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNDDpyleI/AAAAAAAAAHw/REkqlqQjTQ0/s200/IMG_0775.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312573056608277986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNClDD8PI/AAAAAAAAAHo/YIvgJzfi3tw/s1600-h/IMG_1050.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNClDD8PI/AAAAAAAAAHo/YIvgJzfi3tw/s200/IMG_1050.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312573048392773874" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboLhn-5HZI/AAAAAAAAAHI/R8rMAOO_2u0/s1600-h/DSC02114.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboLhn-5HZI/AAAAAAAAAHI/R8rMAOO_2u0/s200/DSC02114.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312571382733282706" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboLhGafk6I/AAAAAAAAAHA/jNq43PItPqg/s1600-h/IMG_0900.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboLhGafk6I/AAAAAAAAAHA/jNq43PItPqg/s200/IMG_0900.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312571373722244002" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two years have passed since I took the train from Europe all the way to China.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back then I sat in an office somewhere in Bern, searching the internet and reading the lonely planet guide book about the Tranisberian railway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked two of my friends to join me on my trip, and when they agreed to tag along, the planning started.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We met in a Pub around the corner and decided over a few Guinness what we are going to do and what places we wanted to see.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The departure was set and everyone was ready to go on an adventure…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The days were long. We got many new expressions from the countries we visited.&lt;br /&gt;We met a lot of interesting people along the way and got a lot of new insider information about their daily life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I think about the trip now there are still a lot of memories I carry with me.&lt;br /&gt;The freedom, the adventure, the friendship…these things will follow me for the rest of my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboOusw0HWI/AAAAAAAAAIY/prtNonZeHp8/s1600-h/IMG_0795.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboOusw0HWI/AAAAAAAAAIY/prtNonZeHp8/s200/IMG_0795.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312574905889594722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNkFfnU3I/AAAAAAAAAH4/2XW1iVGwcLQ/s1600-h/IMG_1048.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNkFfnU3I/AAAAAAAAAH4/2XW1iVGwcLQ/s200/IMG_1048.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312573624038151026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNk1wJxoI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Livk4wLWSaE/s1600-h/IMG_1103.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNk1wJxoI/AAAAAAAAAIA/Livk4wLWSaE/s200/IMG_1103.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312573636992419458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNlOEEVMI/AAAAAAAAAII/O5D77qynJto/s1600-h/IMG_1225.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNlOEEVMI/AAAAAAAAAII/O5D77qynJto/s200/IMG_1225.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312573643518399682" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in Japan, where I live now with my lovely wife, I always had the urge to it again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is much more railway to cover, more destination to see and more things to discover.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After I expand my work contract for one more year and could negotiate a long summer vacation (japan+holiday=no comment) with my boss I finally could continue my journey where I left off last time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Central Train Station in Beijing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This time it will be the Beijing – Lhasa route with the Qinghai Tibet railway. (if the political situation allows it.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be continued…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Info Box&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;www.seat61.com (info about train trips from all around the world)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lonely planet Guidebook Tranisberian Railway (doesn’t need any explanation)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and the movie Traniberian (directed by Bred Anderson Starring Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer, a movie with the main focus on the Transiberian Train Backpackers and Drug Smugglers, available on Blu ray and DVD from www.amazon.com)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-6327876270388136085?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6327876270388136085/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=6327876270388136085' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6327876270388136085'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6327876270388136085'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/03/transiberian-railway-trip-retro-spec.html' title='Transiberian Railway Trip (retro spec)'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SboNDDpyleI/AAAAAAAAAHw/REkqlqQjTQ0/s72-c/IMG_0775.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-6801241911790169071</id><published>2009-03-08T21:14:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-08T22:44:20.861-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel magazine'/><title type='text'>Red Junction Travel</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SbSc8ITvv4I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/ltaMJNVWjhw/s1600-h/china.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SbSc8ITvv4I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/ltaMJNVWjhw/s200/china.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311042417413046146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SbSrhbJ_5xI/AAAAAAAAAGw/qAvsOUiSevc/s1600-h/south+america.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SbSrhbJ_5xI/AAAAAAAAAGw/qAvsOUiSevc/s200/south+america.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311058451290384146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SbSpVcYfAqI/AAAAAAAAAGY/i1TvsGIwebQ/s1600-h/europa.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SbSpVcYfAqI/AAAAAAAAAGY/i1TvsGIwebQ/s200/europa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5311056046437892770" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you like to travel "off the beaten track” and need a good travel magazine that features all kind of interesting things about different countries and cultures, I recommend you to give the TRANSIT (former NEUTRAL) magazine a look.&lt;br /&gt;It has enough pictures and maps to give even the non-Japanese-readers a good inside look into different countries and people.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check it out on:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://transit.ne.jp/magazine.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s available in Bookstores around Japan or on&lt;br /&gt;www.amazon.co.jp for 1500 yen&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-6801241911790169071?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/6801241911790169071/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=6801241911790169071' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6801241911790169071'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/6801241911790169071'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/03/if-you-like-to-travel-off-beaten-track.html' title='Red Junction Travel'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SbSc8ITvv4I/AAAAAAAAAGQ/ltaMJNVWjhw/s72-c/china.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-5027332576054749405</id><published>2009-02-27T21:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T02:56:52.417-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='red junction'/><title type='text'>advertisement</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SajRkqHqf3I/AAAAAAAAAFI/wOJwSREWYIQ/s1600-h/redjunction.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; 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from Airports in &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Tokyo&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Osaka&lt;/st1:city&gt;, &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;Nagoya&lt;/st1:city&gt; and &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Fukuoka&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt;) check it out for the latest prices.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;www.no1-travel.com. (English &amp;amp; Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;www.funtravel.jp (English &amp;amp; Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;www.flightshop.jp (Japanese)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;www.across-travel.com (Japanese &amp;amp; English)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span lang="EN-US"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SaSt6hseziI/AAAAAAAAAEg/YKhkJi6CHgk/s1600-h/map_across_logo.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 34px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SaSt6hseziI/AAAAAAAAAEg/YKhkJi6CHgk/s200/map_across_logo.gif" alt="" 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width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-7476125137508864532</id><published>2009-02-16T20:29:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-08T22:44:20.863-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='travel magazine'/><title type='text'>Red Junction Travel</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hello everyone, this is the first entry in the Red Junction Travel section.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are a few new Guide Books about Japan (only in Japanese).&lt;br /&gt;But don’t worry if you can’t read Japanese, because most of the Guide Books and travel magazines have a huge selection of pictures, maps and drawings on every page that makes it a little bit easier for the non Japanese reading crowd.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpCjSFekkI/AAAAAAAAAC4/OPcOvA4B57c/s1600-h/Tokyo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpCjSFekkI/AAAAAAAAAC4/OPcOvA4B57c/s200/Tokyo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303624685099848258" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpDl3HiSHI/AAAAAAAAADg/JTbhAeazwKA/s1600-h/yokohama.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpDl3HiSHI/AAAAAAAAADg/JTbhAeazwKA/s200/yokohama.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303625828911958130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpDsZlFM0I/AAAAAAAAADo/_ve9yGXQ65k/s1600-h/61hOS59u09L._SS500_.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpDsZlFM0I/AAAAAAAAADo/_ve9yGXQ65k/s200/61hOS59u09L._SS500_.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303625941241901890" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpESf69A0I/AAAAAAAAAD4/1TZXPq9t6Xg/s1600-h/chiba.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpESf69A0I/AAAAAAAAAD4/1TZXPq9t6Xg/s200/chiba.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5303626595779281730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A travel magazine I picked up recently called &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TaBiMo&lt;/span&gt; by mapple.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As mentioned, its only in Japanese, but there are enough pictures and maps to get along and find interesting things in places like Tokyo, Yokohama, Chiba, Hokkaido… If you search for a lonely planet guide book, it is definitely the wrong magazine, but if you planning to go to Japan and need some “light” info and a lot of pictures about food, shopping and sight seen this magazines might be the right choice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can get it on &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;www.amazon.co.jp&lt;/span&gt; and the 2009 versions are on sale now.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Price 680 Yen  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-7476125137508864532?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/7476125137508864532/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=7476125137508864532' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/7476125137508864532'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/7476125137508864532'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/02/red-junction-travel.html' title='Red Junction Travel'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/SZpCjSFekkI/AAAAAAAAAC4/OPcOvA4B57c/s72-c/Tokyo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-4707755489176993606</id><published>2009-02-08T19:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-08T20:11:59.387-08:00</updated><title type='text'>what is red junction?</title><content type='html'>there will be the following three topics on my blog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;red junction coaching&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;red junction entertainment&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;red junction trave&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;l&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;further information will follow soon...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-4707755489176993606?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/4707755489176993606/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link 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href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/7191110331932640067'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2009/02/advertisement.html' title='advertisement'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7398287602574982226.post-2252574942166203910</id><published>2008-02-29T00:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-10-30T02:57:35.971-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Travel'/><title type='text'>on the way to Japan</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/R85Nc5WCxLI/AAAAAAAAAAk/xVgQnmGDJXw/s1600-h/IMG_1093.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/R85Nc5WCxLI/AAAAAAAAAAk/xVgQnmGDJXw/s200/IMG_1093.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174158180720231602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Train compartment Number 7 will be our room for the next two nights again.&lt;br /&gt;After we left Ulan Bator, the Train made his way thru the endless wilderness of Mongolia to the Gobi desert.&lt;br /&gt;We are passing Gears and Horses along the Way. The blue Sky and the clouds seem to be endless. The Mongolian Landscape passes by like in a movie.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ulan Bator, two days ago…&lt;br /&gt;When we arrived at the train station, our Backpacks were put in the trunk of an old rusty taxi. The taxi driver offered us a cheap ride to our destination.&lt;br /&gt;The Tereldsch National park a few miles outside of UB.&lt;br /&gt;After a few stops at some “famous” landmarks and a few pictures later we continued our trip.&lt;br /&gt;The life in the countryside is different. Everyone seems to be happy, seems to smile…after a horseback ride including a gorgeous Sunset we went back to our Ger.&lt;br /&gt;The time seems to stand still out here. A Long time ago, when Genghis Khan and his troops reigned over the land felt suddenly very close.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Back in the City was totally the opposite. Smog, noise, everything seems to be under construction. Tall buildings were built, shopping malls, Hotels…after Mongolia took the red flag of communism down and changed to a democratic state a lot of things changed.&lt;br /&gt;Too fast is the economy growing.&lt;br /&gt;The slogan “Big History, Big Future” seems to take control over Mongolia.&lt;br /&gt;But what really will the future bring?&lt;br /&gt;It lies in the hands of the youth. A lot of Students, who studied overseas coming back to Mongolia now and try to make a change for good.&lt;br /&gt;“Thanks to our friend Hulan, for letting us be a part of the Mongolian culture.”&lt;br /&gt;Hulan means “Bright Horse” and Mongolia needs a lot of them…&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7398287602574982226-2252574942166203910?l=redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/feeds/2252574942166203910/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7398287602574982226&amp;postID=2252574942166203910' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/2252574942166203910'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7398287602574982226/posts/default/2252574942166203910'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://redjunctionjapan.blogspot.com/2008/02/my-life-in-japan.html' title='on the way to Japan'/><author><name>red junction</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_1aF2VYE4RZc/R85Nc5WCxLI/AAAAAAAAAAk/xVgQnmGDJXw/s72-c/IMG_1093.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
