Thursday Travels

Thursday Travels @Exploring the World is a new photographic meme that highlights your favourite and best holiday pics.

One at a time.

Some easy to follow rules:

• Pick just ONE photo that shows something unique, unusual or quintessential about your travels.

• You can label it, write a story or do a travelogue piece about your photo if you so desire.

• These photos are about the place, the environment (man-made or natural), panoramas, macros - whatever captures your eye.

• All photos must be your own.

• NO selfies or family pics please.

We're all about the scenery at Thursday Travels!

Shibuya Crossing, Tokyo, Japan

Shibuya Crossing is one of those places everyone is told to go when they first visit Tokyo. Thousands of people surge across this five way intersection every few minutes.
It looks crazy and hectic, but like everything in Japan, it is extremely organised and safe.
There is plenty of time to cross (even when filming yourself crossing or trying to take selfies)!
Everyone keeps left(ish) and everyone is very mindful of personal space. There is no jostling, pushing or barging. It's all very civilised.

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Thursday Travels

#ThursdayTravels @Exploring the World

The aim of this meme is to highlight your favourite and best holiday pics.

One at a time.

Some easy to follow rules:

• Pick just ONE photo that shows something unique, unusual or quintessential about your travels.

• You can label it, write a story or do a travelogue piece about your photo if you so desire.

• These photos are about the place, the environment (man-made or natural), panoramas, macros - whatever captures your eye.

• All photos must be your own.

• NO selfies or family pics please.

We're all about the scenery at Thursday Travels!

Hanoi, Vietnam

One of the things about travelling is learning the rules of the road, wherever you are, as quickly as you can. Vietnam traffic looked chaotic and crazy, but it was actually quite safe crossing the road, once you knew how. You simply start walking. Slowly, mindfully but purposefully. The scooters and bikes and taxis will swerve around you as long as you keep going forward, slowly, mindfully and purposefully. It was quite a zen experience that I came to enjoy a lot.
If you're not sure, watch the locals for a while to see how it works.

#ThursdayTravels

Thursday Travels

I love to travel - overseas, interstate and all around my local area.

I've collected a LOT of photos documenting these journeys.

The aim of this meme is to highlight the best ones.

One at a time.

Some easy to follow rules:

• Pick just ONE photo that shows something unique, unusual or quintessential about your travels.

• You can label it, write a story or do a travelogue piece about your photo if you so desire.

• These photos are about the place, the environment (man-made or natural), panoramas, macros - whatever captures your eye.

• All photos must be your own.

• NO selfies or family pics please.

We're all about the scenery at Thursday Travels!

Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

Outside Shinjuku Station (apparently the busiest station in Japan) is a pedestrian overpass with a great view of the street scene below.

What this busy, busy scene doesn't convey, though, is the incredible quiet and calm that surrounds the city.

I was expecting an onslaught of sound, sirens and the usual city noise.

Instead, all we heard was the quiet hum of electric cars and auto stop-start engines.

There was no blaring music, loud beeping traffic lights or car horns. 

People spoke quietly, using their inside voices, outside.

Everyone's phones were on silent or mute.

People always left the room or removed themselves from the group to talk on their phones.

The only conversations I overheard in public the whole time we were in Japan were from loud tourists!

It was incredible to be in one of the busiest cities in the world and to feel so calm and peaceful.

This article goes a little way to explaining the phenomenon.

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