The Famous city in China

    Today, I write about the famous city, Shanghai, in China.  I visited there with my family and grand parents seven years ago.  I had never found the interesting culture and food in Shanghai before. Therefore, I introduce you about that and my memory in Shanghai.

   

     First, I write the history and culture simply.  Shanghai is the biggest city and has the largest population in China.  Also it is the center of Chinese industry, money market, and traffic, so many people in the world go over or live on business. There are a lot of foreign affiliated companies and restaurant like UNIQLO.  Recently the buildings are sharply developing and taller than ever.  However, a lot of traditional buildings remains, so visitor can enjoy seeing and feeling traditional Chinese culture.

 

 

    Secondly, I show my interesting memories.  My family visited there in winter, so we felt so cold.

Moreover, I coud not see more clearly scenery than I had expected because of fog.  However many visitor came to the spot that we can see the beautiful view, so it was crowded and lively there.  There are a lot of high buildings, and I thought one of that is more higher than buildings in Tokyo.  I enjoyed shopping and having some delicious sweets at the wide street.  I found there were various kind of shops there like old traditional ones and newly foreign affiliated ones.  I ate a Chinese famous sweet, egg tart.  This sweet is popular among young women and made from much castard.  It tastes so good, so I recommend to eat it if you visit in China. 

What do you thing is the most pupular food in Shanghai?  Maybe most people guess it is Shanghai club, off course I ate it!  Shanghai club is so small comparing Japanese ones, but it contains much rich delicious club viscera(miso).  This picture is Shanghai club and shouronpou which is popular food too. 

 

I went to the traditional buildings for sightseeing the next day.  Its atmosphere is completly different from modern street I went through the day before.  The traditional buildings have meticulous decolations, so I could feel as if I was in the past Chinese era.  At that place, I purchased some souvenirs for friends.  They were bracelets and pen cases wich made from Chinese traditional materials. 

 



After that, my family enjoyed drinking Chinese tea in the old traditional garden.  It similared to Japanese one, so we relaxed there.  I was so surprised to the tea because one of that was the small flower bloomed in the pot.  It was very beautiful and amazing.  Also, we had various kind of tea that is not familiar in Japan.  

 

    Finally, Shanghai is great city that has two aspects, modern and traditional mood.  Therefore, the visitors can enjoy and feel two cultures!  I hope you had more interested in Shanghai after you read my blog!!

Thank you.

 

 

 

 



Beautiful nature in Wakayama

 

  Today, I write about my family's traveling in Wakayama. We went to Shirahama in March and stayed for three days. I came in contact with beautiful nature and a lot of animals.

 

  First of all, I tell you about beautiful scenery there. We visited to Sandanheki and Senjoujiki to see the wonderful view. Both were created by nature and the shape also created by natural forces.

Sandanheki is cliffs of 50m in height to tower over the shore. I have not seen the view from such a high cliff before. Due to that, I was so fear to look down but I experienced the natural power.

Senjoujiki is large bedrock harking back to large layers of rock. The origine of name comes from a meaning of the size as we can substract 1000 pieces of tatami mats. Thus I could walk on the rocks.

This picture is the beautiful ocean I looked out over from there.

                                                               

Second, I introduce some lovely animals and my experiences. My family visited to Adventure world too. That place has a big zoo and some amusement park rides. That is famous for touching and feeding animals easily. There are many kinds of animals. I think the most popular animal is pandas.

When I looked at a panda, it was warm day. They looked sleepy and relaxed lying on the ground.

It was so cute that visiter took a lot of pictures. Also I was surprised that pandas ate a hard bamboo easily.

We feeded some animals around the park. Especially my impressive animal is a giraffe. Because I fed it for the first time. Do you know the colour of its tongue? Its tongue is purple and so long. I touched it and felt sticky and warm. I was able to touch and feed many animals.
Moreover, I saw a white bear's baby. It was so small and lovely action. It looked like exactly a stuffed toy.

Finally, I enjoyed having local and unique food. The most unique food I thought was an ice cream fravoured umeboshi. I knew it was famous in Wakayama but I first found it. It tastes very interesting for me. I guess if you don't like sweet, you can enjoy eating it.

There are a lot of great scenery and sightseeing in Wakayama. I also recommend to visit there for who like animals and nature.
Thank you!

Graduation trip

Today I tell you about graduation trip with my friends. We visited to Ise ,in Mie prefecture by bus two months ago.
We stayed a ryokan for two days. Unfortunately, the first day was rainy day but we enjoyed traveling.

The first destination was Ise shurine and Okage Yokocho. Ise shurine is a popular tourist spot in Mie.
Also it has been designated as a national treasure and a important cultural heritage. So, many people from various places visit there. When we arrived there, it was very crowded.
And we had a lunch at Okage Yokocho. It is a lot of shops and food stands. And it is the sightseeing spot which reproduced old cityscape. Therefore we can taste an atnosphere of the Edo era and the Meiji era. We tasted some local specialities.
After that, we found this figure while shopping. It looks just pretty ornament of dog but it is in a fortune-telling slip.

In that evening, we enjoyed taking a hot spring , talking about memories from our high school.


The next day, we visited to Sima Marineland. It is small aquarium and famous for sunfishes.
In addition, we could touch a penguin. Its feather is not soft. A caretaker said that it was all right even if we touched it because the penguin took to a person.

 That day, we ate Ise udon for lunch. Unlike other udon, we eat with salty-sweet sauce. And it has good smoothness, soft and sticky. That tastes so good.
I want to eat it again when I go to Ise.

 

So my graduation trip was so fun and memorable!
I want to travel other places with my friends when I am in college.
Thank you,

 

Hawaii

I love traveling in another country. Among these countries, I like to go to Hawaii especially!
When I was there, I can so relax and spend happier time.
So, I am going to introduce some attractions in Hawaii with my experiences.

First, I show some exciting activities.
There are a lot of activities in Hawaii, snorkeling, watching stars and riding a horse.
So, I recommend you to watch stars and snorke especially.
I went to Mt.Mauna Kea to see the star. In this picture, there are an astronomical observatory and cloud sea. A Japanese observatory founded the facility and installed it abroad.
And we can see much sea of clouds when we reached the top of the mountain. That scene was beyond expression and probably cheered us up.
Of course, we can see a lot of beautiful stars in night. If you're lucky, you might be able to see the Saturn.

Also,I recommend to snorkel and swim in the sea.
There are many kind of fishes and sea animals in Hawaii. So,we can see dolphins, sea turtles and fishes which live only in Hawaii while swimming.
But don't touch that wild animals! It is illegal to touch turtles. And some wild fishes have strong poison.

Second, I talk about popular Hawaiian food.
There is a lot of Hawaiian food which is popular in Japan like pancakes. But I tell you about Hawaiian shaved ice. Shaved ice means "kakigoori" in Japanese.  Unlike Japanese ones, Hawaiian 's ones are big and many kinds of syrup. In this picture, the syrups are guava, mango, and passionfruit.
So, I recommend you to choose some syrups and make your original shaved ice.

Finally, I hope you are interested in Hawaii after you read my blog.
 Hawaii is wonderful and cheerful place for me.
Thank you!!