Hokkaido Flower Power
Got a ferry (return - for JPY17,400 - SWEEEEET... normally it would have cost JPY60,000 return flight).
I was set to spend 20 hours to Hokkaido in a ferry each way, considering it will save me more than 400 bucks. With my imagination that the "ferry" would be the Penang-style type of open-aired thingies where passengers are sort of lump together with the vehicles.. I was surprised when the "ferry" turned out to be a small cruise ship (Shin-Nihonkai) minus the swimming pool and casino.. but with restaurants, cafes, spa and bath, theatre room...I was stoked. Chucking up on board was no longer a problem.
My sole purpose visiting Hokkaido was for the flower fields. Went with MM (a Louisiana dude met through a mutual friend) who so happened want to visit Hokkaido too. With my talkative travel companion in tow (whom I have learnt how to tune him out when I am tired of listening to him ... hehehe.. sorry, Mike, but I am sure you must have think that I am a very rude person), I managed to fulfil my purpose with 5 days out of 6 raining when we were there.
The gorgeous laid-back country-side was a sharp contrast to ugly Osaka, and it was also 10 degrees cooler as compared to Osaka, ranging between 16-24 degree Celcius.
I have never seen so much flowers in such a short span of time. Poppies being my favourite.
HIGHLIGHTS:
I was set to spend 20 hours to Hokkaido in a ferry each way, considering it will save me more than 400 bucks. With my imagination that the "ferry" would be the Penang-style type of open-aired thingies where passengers are sort of lump together with the vehicles.. I was surprised when the "ferry" turned out to be a small cruise ship (Shin-Nihonkai) minus the swimming pool and casino.. but with restaurants, cafes, spa and bath, theatre room...I was stoked. Chucking up on board was no longer a problem.
My sole purpose visiting Hokkaido was for the flower fields. Went with MM (a Louisiana dude met through a mutual friend) who so happened want to visit Hokkaido too. With my talkative travel companion in tow (whom I have learnt how to tune him out when I am tired of listening to him ... hehehe.. sorry, Mike, but I am sure you must have think that I am a very rude person), I managed to fulfil my purpose with 5 days out of 6 raining when we were there.
The gorgeous laid-back country-side was a sharp contrast to ugly Osaka, and it was also 10 degrees cooler as compared to Osaka, ranging between 16-24 degree Celcius.
I have never seen so much flowers in such a short span of time. Poppies being my favourite.
HIGHLIGHTS:
When Mike and I asked for directions, people tend to tell me in Japanese, thinking I am one of their kind. I have to point to the white dude next to me, and politely request that they speak to him instead.
The Ditch Crawler - I HAVE to take this photo as evidence that my travel companion happily crossed a 2-feet ditch by crawling on 2 logs. No one will believe me if I didn't take that photo.
Yes, yes.. he is American.
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