Sunday, July 26, 2009

"Koyo" Autumn viewing

I wanted to stock up some daily necessities so we headed to Chinatown. BF & I had our lunch nearby at the hawker centre. Previously, we did price comparisons and the prices at Swanston is much cheaper. Hence we make a point to go there to buy our daily necessities and end up spending an exaggerated amount!

Since we were at Chinatown, we decided to drop by the tour agencies at People's Park complex. We went to CTC, SA, Hong Tai and ASA. I must said I'm satisfied with the lady, Cecilia whom we approached at Hong Tai. She provided us the pricing to consider. We decided to bring forward our travelling plans to end October - early November instead as end November is getting close to winter and we are just afraid it might be a bit risky if we want to catch autumn season.

We are still considering which places to visit and what packages to sign up for. Probably, we will sign up before end August to secure our hotel lodging and air tickets.

Autumn is one of my favourite season in Japan, besides spring. Since I could not wait for next spring to arrive, I decided to go for autumn viewing. Do you know that autumn foliage is gorgeous too. It is a season of warm colours and you can look out to the trees and you see yellows, oranges, reds among the green. I have seen a few nice photographs from the web and it can be so pleasing to the eyes.

Most of the areas in Japan are covered with trees and meaning, the autumn foliage is particularly beautiful the deeper into the hills you go... I am sure it will be a breathe-taking sight! Guess what! I'm planning to pluck a few maple leaves back to Singapore!

Link on when to view autumn foliage: http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/indepth/seasonal/seasons_2004autumn-winter/index.html

Currently following this Japan link on city guide: http://www.japan-guide.com/
If you have any links to share, pls post in my blog, thanks!

Here are two pictures I abstracted from Alfie Goodrich's photo blog that made me go WOW!


Hope to see beautiful maple leaves like these pictures on our trip!

3 comments:

Starfruitlam said...

ya man! book early, got early bird discount...:)lucky you din go CB..the service like shit!!..tin SA, CTC service nt bad fm experience..

sure you will be able to see meimei autumn leaves..>

oinkoink22 said...

Heee... ya loh.. gal, Im so excited. My dream coming true =)

Share with me your experiences someday...

Starfruitlam said...

sure..cool...