How to travel while you are on COVID-19 lockdown

Vi — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 18:28:45 +0000

Airlines are canceling flights, museums are closing their doors, hotels are not accepting clients, countries are closing borders and allow in only their own citizens. The best you can do is to sit at home and work remotely if you have that possibility while coronavirus (COVID-19) widespreads around the world.

But good thing is you can still travel during your free time!

Of course there are plenty books, magazines travel blogs to read, or to watch travel channels, but you also can go on virtual tours through hundreds museums.

Google Arts & Culture collections

Google Arts & Culture collections over thousand museums in different parts of World. Some of them you probably would never visit, so now you have an opportunity to do it.

MoMA The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, Museo Dolores Olmedo in Mexico, The State Tretyakov Gallery
in Moscow, The Munch Museum in Oslo, Tokyo National Museum in Tokyo, National Museum in New Delhi and list goes on and on. Just don’t spent too much time in these museums. You need to do some exercise too not just sit on coach

Louvre

Louvre in Paris was one of the first museums closed during this coronavirus time. But you can visit Louvre virtually too.

National Museum of the United States Air Force

National Museum of the United States Air Force offers virtual tour and allows visitors to take 360-degree, self-guided tour of the entire museum.

Web cams

Web cams allows as to see live what is happening in the World. Here is big collection of web cams.

You can watch Niagara Falls live or life on Times Square in New York, or watch waves in Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia and may be you will be lucky to see a whale.

Enjoy your virtual travel and let us know if you know any other good virtual tours in museums or parks and we will add it to our list.

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Travel cost in Japan

Vi — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:00:46 +0000

Is it very expensive? Cherry blossom season is coming in Japan and a lot of people would love to visit Japan, but afraid it can be very expensive.

Actually it is not so expensive. Except transport. I want o list expenses I had on my 10 days/9 nights visit to Japan. It was couple years ago and prices probably are up now, but it still can be good for orientation.

		¥
Transport		*50000*
	Japan Rail Pass (7 days)	28300
	Night train (Hiroshima-Nagoya)	9130
	Bus from Narita airport to Tokyo	3000
	Hakone Weekday Pass	3410
	Train from Tokyo to Narita airport	2940
	City bus, subway(Tokyo, Kioto, Hiroshima)	3220
Accommodation		17250
	Hakone x 1 night	5250
	Kioto x 3 night	6000
	Hiroshima x 1 night	6000
Food		~14000
Sightseeing		8445
	Temples/Museum(entry to temples cost around ¥300-600, Hiroshima Peace Museum – ¥50)	6000
	Entry to Mori Towers	1500
	Bathing at onsen	945
Total		~90000

Currency exchange rates you can find at XE.
In Tokyo I had where to stay, so it didn’t cost anything, but in Hakone and Hiroshima I think it is possible to find cheaper accommodation to keep average price at ¥2000 per night
I didn’t include souvenirs or some snacks to this list, but that doesn’t cost much.
As you can see the price for 10 days visit would be around 1200USD/900EUR, but more then half of it is price for transport and JR pass saves at lot. It would be even more expensive without it. If you are staying in one place and not alone as I was (you can save on accommodation) the price will be half of this and that won’t look so expensive.