garden view

Sengan-en garden, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

citizen's duty

Collect volcano ash and return it to the city.

Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

quite active Sakurajima volcano

Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

Get buried hot

Ibusuki, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

Help yourself hotel desk

Miyanoura, Yakushima, Japan, March 2016.

Yakushima, Japan, March 2016.

On top: Part 2

Yakushima, Japan, March 2016.

On top

Yakushima, Japan, March 2016.

Yakushima Macaque

Yakushima, Japan, March 2016.

Yakushima

The island ecosystem of Yakushima is unique in the Northern Hemisphere’s temperate area with successive vertical plant distributions extending from coastal vegetation with subtropical elements, up through a montane temperate rainforest to a high moor and a cold-temperate bamboo grassland at the central peaks. More on why Yakushima is part of UNESCO's world heritage sites...

Yakushima, Japan, March 2016.

Arriving in Yakushima

Yakushima, Japan, March 2016.

Kumamoto castle before the quake

On 14 April 2016 the castle looked like this.

 Kumamoto, Kyushu, March 2016.

Kaimon volcano or the 'Mt. Fuji of Kyushu'

Southern tip of Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

beauty in stone

Usuki Stone Buddha. One of many others... 

Usuki, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

My parking lot

Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

Ever been to Notsumachioazanotsuichi?

Notsumachioazanotsuichi, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

Mount Aso

Mount Aso (阿蘇山) is the largest active volcano in Japan, and is among the largest in the world. Its peak is 1592 m above sea level. Mt. Aso has a fairly large caldera (25 km north-south and 18 km east-west) with a circumference of around 120 km.

Kyushu, Japan, March 2016. 

birdy landscape

Mount Aso, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

Shoes for our Ryokan apartment

Shoes for the apartment but not for the bathroom.

To be shared...

 For the terrace and for the small but private garden below.

Kurokawa onsen, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

Life is Good

Bon anniversaire !

Ibusuki, Kyushu, Japan, March 2016.

This vehicle is been...

South of Manila, February 2016.

Enjoying Yunnan food

Beijing, February 2016.

Beijing winter sports

Beijing, February 2016.

Guomao without smog

Beijing, February 2016.

nice apartment

Manila, January 2016.

Black smog over Mongolian provincial capitals

Arvayheer (capital of Övörhangay province) and 

Bayanhongor city (capital of Bayanhongor province) below.

Mongolia, February 2016.

hawk, hawk

Somewhere in Övörhangay province, Mongolia, February 2016.

Mongolian gazelle

Somewhere in Övörhangay province, Mongolia, February 2016.

herding

Somewhere in Övörhangay province, Mongolia, February 2016.

Mongolian village

Somewhere in Bayankhongor province, Mongolia, February 2016.