Macau Pictures

And some pictures of our other recent trip to Macau - formerly a Portuguese colony (for about 450 years) and now Chinese - making for an interesting cultural mix.

Mainland China is very close

Mega casinos are big business here

Japan Pictures

We've been updating and posting pictures on Facebook recently, but here are some pictures from our trip to Japan earlier this year ...

TOKYO

Rush Hour on the subway

Toda-Ji Temple

Imperial Palace

Shubuya Crossing - the busiest in the world

Tokyo's famous fish market

KYOTO

Buddhist Stupas

Geisha!

 NARA

 BACK TO KYOTO

The Bamboo Forest

The Golden Temple

Plum Blossoms

MIYAJIMA

HIROSHIMA

A Bomb Dome - a building beneath the atomic bomb explosion that survived

Peace Cranes in the thousands

Hiroshima Castle