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The Bhutan Exhibition – Hint to Happiness @ Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo.

June 16, 2016 by joostay

A rare glimpse into the art and culture of one of the world’s most intriguing countries. A few weeks back I was invited along to the Ueno Royal Museum in Tokyo to check out its latest exhibition of art and relics from the Kingdom of Bhutan – a country I’d love to go to. Unfortunately, the only time I have ever seen the Himalayas was from the window of an airplane as I was evacuated from the earthquake in Nepal. […]

Categories: Art, Music & Culture, Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: art, asia, bhutan, blog, buddhism, buddhist, culture, design, himalayas, ikimasho, japan, japanese, masks, nepal, se asia, travel

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Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 2

April 25, 2016 by joostay

Originally posted on IKIMASHO!:
Oddest boarding pass you ever will see Evacuation: Life on the ground and taking a relief flight from Kathmandu to London. It’s been nearly a month since I was evacuated on a relief flight back to the UK by the British Foreign Office after the earthquake in Nepal. Flying home I was a little unsure whether I had made the right decision, thinking I was fine to continue on travelling. But it’s only now that I…

Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: 2015, earthquake, kathmandu, nepal, story, thankful

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Smoke over Pashupatinath, Nepal.

August 6, 2015 by joostay

Out of the few pictures I took during and after the earthquake in Kathmandu, it is this one that stays with me. Pashupatinath Temple in the east of the city is well known for its ceremonial cremations, but following the disaster the temple could not keep up with the growing amount of bodies waiting to be burned. For three full days the air was filled with dense smoke rising from the dead, yet it was only when I went down […]

Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: earthquake, kathmandu, nepal, restinpeace, travel

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Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 3, Camp Hope.

June 29, 2015 by joostay

Please contribute to Camp Hope & help those affected by disaster rebuild their lives. It’s been two months since the 7.8 magnitude earthquake left a profound trail of destruction in the villages surrounding Kathmandu, Kavre District and Sindulpalchowk – along with many other areas of central and western Nepal. To date, more than 8,000 lives have been lost with countless homes and villages destroyed. Small (unreported) aftershocks continue to hit the country, and so those who survived the disaster unfortunately still have to live in fear. […]

Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: 25 april, aid, art, blog, charity, development, earthquake, fundraising, hotel, ikimasho, japan, kathmandu, nepal, schools, travel

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Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 2

May 27, 2015 by joostay

Evacuation: Life on the ground and taking a relief flight from Kathmandu to London. It’s been nearly a month since I was evacuated on a relief flight back to the UK by the British Foreign Office after the earthquake in Nepal. Flying home I was a little unsure whether I had made the right decision, thinking I was fine to continue on travelling. But it’s only now that I acknowledge that I was probably more stressed during that first week […]

Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: airplane, asia, backpacking, disaster, earthquake, flight, fundraising, government, help, hotel, kathmandu, london, nepal, red cross, relief, se asia, travel, uk

IKIMASHO Luxury Stays: The Dalai-La Boutique Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal

May 4, 2015 by joostay

This review was written two days before the earthquake in Kathmandu. I have contacted the hotel and am pleased to report none of the staff were injured, nor was the hotel damaged. Quite often the worst thing about travelling is the actual travelling itself. Struck down with food poisoning in Bangkok, I had to somehow pull myself together and take two flights in one day when all I wanted to do was crawl under the covers and think of anything […]

Categories: Luxury Travel, Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, boutique, hotel, kathmandu, luxury, nepal, review, thamel, travel

Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake

May 2, 2015 by joostay

On 25 April a 7.9 earthquake struck 80km west of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu. I was on the street at the time, about to get in a taxi, when I started to feel weird. My first reaction was that I was fainting, but then everyone else started falling, motorbikes veered off the road and the rubble started to fall. I looked up at the sky and the thing that will always stick with me is how many birds there were, […]

Categories: Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: disaster, earthquake, ikimasho, nepal

Christmas throwback + Ikimasho! 2015

December 30, 2014 by joostay

This time last year I was in Sumatra. The photos above were taken on Christmas Day in a small restaurant on Lake Toba. I wish I could remember this lady’s name, who agreed to cook me a full chicken in the back of her house using nothing but a bucket of hot coals. Earlier in the day I was taken to a place that served pig’s blood for my Christmas lunch. I really loved Sumatra, especially the hospitality of the […]

Categories: Daily Life in Tokyo, Travel: Outside Japan • Tags: asia, backpacking, blog, brunei, ikimasho, india, japan, japanese, nepal, se asia, tokyo, travel

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The Bhutan Exhibition – Hint to Happiness @ Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo.

Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 2

Smoke over Pashupatinath, Nepal.

Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 3, Camp Hope.

Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake / Part 2

IKIMASHO Luxury Stays: The Dalai-La Boutique Hotel, Kathmandu, Nepal

Reflections: Living through the Nepal earthquake

Christmas throwback + Ikimasho! 2015