Hakone ^-^

Ok, you know I've been in Hakone ... however at this time I went to a places I've never been... the Prince Hotel was wonderful. From the window of the room, such a beautiful view of the mountain.

In the Hakone Museum, wow, many European arts and this one in the pic is a French one. There's also the Picasso special museum in a park. It's a place to see famous arts and rest in the onsen.

New York is cooooold (^-^;

NY was special because I met my friends, from the actual and previous companies.
Well, Tokyo is cold but the coats I broght there are not enough... I had to buy a huge coat on the day I arrived.

I stayed at Renata's place in NJ, where is beautiful, very clean, modern and it seems everything is new. I liked the train there ^-^

However the subway is terrible... so durty and crazy people everywhere...

Moma, Metropolitan and Guggenheim ... I couldn't stop a minute... they are interesting every cm there and after all day walking around; as the timezone is the opposite, I went down in some of the couches there...

The Central Park was "bold" because of the winter. It is huuuge, with few people doing some exercises... most of them old people walking at that time.

Rockfeller Center is a must, I had no time and no knee for the ice skate, but it worth. It is beautiful.

Time Square is apart of everything. Theaters and shopping malls... it was so crowded.
Madame Tussads was empty ^^, luckly, I was able to see all the "famous artists" there.
Airton Senna was there.

In Stamford (Connecticut), Komal took me to do my first sculputure in the nails... it was looong and scary (^O^).

Grand Central Station is a special place, they reserved the old style and it looks you are in a museum. Difference with Tokyo, NYrs doesn't help you to find out the right way. People working in the station are there only to look not to speak or show you the directions.

The public library is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge and it was not possible to see even 10% what they have! And the Empire State? well, 2h waiting list, I gave up. I only checked outside what was enough, especially because after that, I had a NBA game to go!! Yes, Renata got a ticket to watch NY Knicks in the Club Suite at Madson Square Garden.

Sad feeling was in the Ground Zero... I still could see people's face in a very deep painful feeling...

At night, Time Square is a show of lights and panels... Manhattan ... hoooo... I could live there ^-^ happy groups around Manhattan, doing shoppings for the Xmas or having a family dinner.

On the last day... Statue of Liberty! couldn't miss that, right? Anyway, Liberty is one of my laws, I had to take a look inside the miss liberty.

Great time in NY. I would go again, however not in the winter time (^^;

GREAT WALL

My wish became true... someday I was wishing walk on the Great Wall and see the amazing landscape from there.

Beijing was full of surprises... when I was in the Forbidden City, I met a Brazilian tour group and we spend all the walk through the temples together. Acrobats Theater presented crazy people doing crazy things... Beautiful is the Temple of Heaven, dragons are designed by flowers and monuments architecture is unique.
In one of the entrances, some old Chineses were doing Tai chi chuan and others dancing very happy... one Chinese was holding a tree and I'm sure he got a wonder energy from it.
I couldn't forget the famous Beijing Roast Duck restaurant in Wangfujing, where you get a full duck and a show of tea preparation.

I have to alert people with sensitive stomach... in Beijing, most of time I was food poisoned... and if you ask the taxi driver to stop as you feel sick, he will only open the window for you!
English? no, nobody speaks English... even in the international hotel, few Chinese speak English and you have hard time before you get someone to undertand you.

Hongkong

Hongkong has a modern city with beautiful all glass buildings and very traditional places, like the Buda you can see in the snap.

Beautiful beaches and great shopping malls around the islands in HK. Each island with a particular view, culture and people.

The most beautiful night view in the world is on the Peek in HK island. The lights are colorful in all the around the Peek. I also had a wonderful dinner on the top, with super fresh raw oysters. yummy ~

Taiwan

It was very hot in Taipei... shourompo was delicious and the city (downtown) has mini bikes as many as Beijing has bicycles.
The temples in Taipei are very colorful and full of details as you can see in the pic.

Moving to Peitou (famous for hot springs), I had a painful professional massage on the feet and a huge and wonderful dinner, with fishes, vegetables, Chinese noodles, hmmmm... it was great!

Yokohama

Lovely Yokohama! Very modern architecture and a new platform like a ship made all with a Brazilian wood.

The chinatown is also very interesting, it's really like China and they have delicious "shorompo".

The tallest building behind me has the fastest elevator in the world to the top of a building with great night view.

It was cold, but I had a great time with my friends ;-)

Ronaldinho! ooooo^-^ooooo

Who would say I would see Ronaldo's poster in Malacca...

I tried the famous chicken rice with a lemonade... very simple but tasty...
The city is very traditional, in culture and religion... very different than KL.

Thanks my private driver to take me there ～☆

Singapore

The city that is a country is hooooot and very humid every day in the year.
Storms in the end of the day is also common.
That's why they have the city and nature in a good combination.
There are trees everywhere and the city is very very beautiful.
Modern buildings and center of many business in Asia, S'pore is a culture mixed country.
Night safari is real, the animals are so close to you and you hear scary sounds at night.
To go to Sentosa island, we take the gondola from the top of a building.
It's unique sensation...

Sentosa island is artificial where they have the butterfly garden.
The birth zoo was also wonderful. You walk with the birds beside you and you see wonderful and colorful huge birds from all the world.