You know how big the city of Tokyo is – in fact it is considered one of if not the largest city in the world – both by area and population. I was there for a few days as part of my mission to conquering the highest peak in Japan and I am pretty sure I had covered quite a big part of it or at least I went to most of the main attraction areas such as Shinjuku and…
Japan was not really my country of choice when it comes to traveling but if I were to go there, I’d ‘conquer’ it by scaling its highest mountain – the one and only Mount Fuji. And that’s exactly what I did recently. Mount Fuji is probably one of the most pictured mountains in the world. Pictures of a snow-capped cone-shaped mountain is like all over I actually started seeing them even when I was a kid. Never did I ever…
My friend from secondary school Krishnan had been bugging and asking me to arrange a trip to somewhere at least before he got married. “Ayooo Jipp, time is running out you know. You really have no sense of urgency la”, he’d say. I had initially planned to bring him to Lombok to conquer Mount Rinjani which over the years had been gaining more and more popularity among adventure seekers. But then, the fact that Mount Fuji is only open for…