So far, I have been in Japan almost two weeks, and I've only paid for lodging once (and that was pretty cool, I stayed in a Buddhist temple in this tiny town called Takanawa).
Quick recap of my couchsurfing experiences sofar:
Tokyo: stayed with a girl from the Philippines named Cyril who hosted TEN people per night. It was pretty crazy with people coming and going all the time, but great way to meet other travelers. As I type this, there are two brothers sitting next to me, 15 and 13 years old, who are traveling around the world with their mom for a year. Awesome.
Kanazawa: Stayed with an English teacher, went out at night with all her English teacher friends, somehow eyeball licking is popular in their crew. No, seriously.
Beppu- Stayed with 3 Vietnamese girls, they showed me around Beppu and at night took me out to Karaoke with all their Vietnamese friends. They could sing! I could not, but where I lacked in talent I made up in volume.
Kyoto- Got to Kyoto at 10 PM, Russian guy name Abdullah says "you want hike mountain?" so Abdullah, his wife, and I climbed a mountain at midnight and then stayed up all night doing a late night tour of Kyoto. Walked around tiny serene temples as the sun came up. He told me his life story and it was crazy.He spent 4 years hitch hiking around russia, central asia, southeast asia, and china living off of 100 dollars per month. He camped on the side of the road to avoid paying for hostels.I said this was cool. He was excited that I was excited, so he gave me $500 worth of camping equipment! A new backpack, a sleeping bag, portable stove, insulated mat, food, stuff sacs, etc...Anyways, now I'm psyched to do some camping in China.
Okay, time to help clean the apartment I'm staying in now.
If I had known you'd help clean the house for free room and board I woulda --- HEY, wait a minute.
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