Asia

Japan!!! A place near and dear to our hearts for so many reasons. My parents lived here in the 1970s […]

We’ve always known that we would WWOOF Japan (World-Wide Opportunities On Organic Farms…a.k.a. Travelers willing to work four-to-six hours per

Japan may seem compact but when you add in the 160 islands of Okinawa it seems to stretch endlessly into

After getting our feet wet on Okinawa’s largest island, we navigated to the tiny isles in the far reaches of

Picture your most elegant image of Japan–-a woman in a floral kimono walking under the shade of her paper umbrella

How to tie a kimono, arrange an ikebana flower arrangement, write kangi calligraphy…these are skills we never dreamt we’d learn,

Tokyo is as lovely and well mannered as you’d expect the Japanese capital to be, but it has a nerdy,

Japan is sort of its own special planet. Nowhere is this clean, people are never this nice, and nothing is

The Yangtze is the third longest river in the world, stretching 6,400km across China, so we knew we had to

Hangzhou is big city with a permanent vacation vibe. This 6.3 million metropolis has a proper downtown but the heart