Hawaii

This was it! My last stop was at HAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When we got off the plane it was almost sunset so we went to nearby Kona to see the beautiful sunsets that they have there, and got this picture to show everyone what they're missing out!

In the morning, we went to go see 'lolani Palace in Honolulu which was the former residence of the Hawaiian monarch, and I got a picture of it!

After we went to see that we met a local who only spoke Hawaiian, and he offered to take us up on a helicopter ride over Honolulu! Everyone was so excited to see the biggest city in Hawaii and we couldn't wait! While we were up there I got a few pictures, and the one below was the best one I could find out of them all sine I couldn't focuss while we were flying, but here it is:

We had an amazing time there just relaxing and chilling on all the beaches and we even went to see the lava flow beside the island! We really took it easy after seeing all the sites we wanted to and now in Hawaii we were closer to home so on our way back it wouldn't be such a long plane ride to Canada. Hawaii was really amazing and the heat was a great change from the cold and wet weather at our home in Canada. I really enjoyed my "Trip Around The World" and would do it again at different countries at any chance I'd get!

Australia

My second-last stop was at Australia! I didn't know what to expect when I found out I was going to Australia, and I didn't really know anything about that country other than where you could find it on a world map! When most people think of Australia, they picture cute little Koalas and Kangaroos running around everywhere, but that's not true at all! Just like how in Canada they apparently have moose running around, Australia supposedly has koalas, meaning although they're there, you rarely get to see them and in only certain parts. I really wanted to see one so we went to a local zoo that was close to where the airport was and took a look at a few and I got a cute picture to bring back with me!

After we'd gotten our fill of little bears, we decided to go to the Country's Capital, Sydney! This city was really big with about 4.34 million people in it! We went to a small beach by the water and had an amazing view of the city at night so I took this picture for you guys to look at!

Then we went to Balmain in Sydney and I took a picture of the city from a different point of view in the picture below:

Next we went to see The Freedom Arch in Cabramatta, which is like our China Town, only Vitnamese!

We ate some Vitnamese food like Spring Rolls on our way back to our hotel to get one last good night of sleep before getting back on the plane to go off to our last destination on our "Trip Around The World"!

England

The third stop was at England! Once again, I'd never been there before so I wasn't sure what to expect! We decided that we would go look at all the historical stuff first, so the first place we went to was Stonehenge! Like seen below, it just looks like a bunch of rocks but it was interesting to look at though.

The next place we went to was a museum and we saw a bunch of historical stuff there.

We saw things like this old Anglo-Saxon helmet found at Sutton Hoo. (Left)

Then we saw old black and white pictures of stuff like the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. (Below)

Then we went to London, the capital of England and did some shopping before we went off to the museum. There we saw portraits of Queen Elizabeth 1 and of Charles 11 like shown below in the pictures I took in the Museum, but I wonder if I was allowed to do that?!

We did a lot of shopping and more site seeing after our museum adventures and saw a whole lot of government buildings. England was really fun although some of the historical stuff was kind of boring. Well I guess it's time to stop writing and get back to the airport and get on the plane agian to go to my next destination on my trip "around the world"!

India

My second stop on my trip around the world was at India. I'd never been there before so I had no idea what to expect. I'd only heard stories, good ones about all the neat new things to try there and sometimes bad ones about all the poverty and bugs everywhere, so I was excited yet scared at the same time. After leaving the airport you can really start to feel the heat as soon as you step out from the air-conditioned facility and "into the real world". We got into a taxi and made our way to New Delhi, the capital of India! On our way we saw very interesting things like cows walking around in the middle of the road like in the picture below!

When we got into the city, we drove past by places like the Taj Mahal, and the Hindu Lotus temple as seen below, but we didn't stop because I don't believe in the stuff that they teach there, but it was interesting to see those really old globally known buildings!

Since we'd seen New Delhi, we decided to go to Mumbai which is the largest city in India! This time we didn't ride in a cab the whole time and took a ride in a Rickshaw! We rode in the one in the picture below!

It was really fun but I felt really bad for the guy pulling us all the way across town in that scorching heat. While we were going into the city, and were passing by the outshirts of the city, we got a glimpse of all the hardships that people face in the city slums. This is a picture that I took while we waited for our "driver" to catch his breath from the big hill we just went over.

It's always so sad to see things like this especially when we know that we're better off than they are. We then continued on our journey and while we were going up a hill on the side of one of the cliffs, I got a really cool picture that really puts everything into perspective.

Isn't it sad how close everyone has to live so close together? I guess this is what people call a "close community"! Although everything is so crowded, I guess it's a price to pay for living in India's largest city!

When we got to Mumbai we wnt to our Hotel first, and it was so amazing that I just had to take a picture and show you guys what I stayed in!

This hotel was huge! I really wasn't sure what to expect, but I really liked it there in India although it was really hot and crowded. We spent a long time resting there after our vast journey getting there. The next day we went site seeing some more, but now it's time to get back on the plane and continue on with my "Journey around the World"!

Tokyo, Japan!

The first place I went to on my trip around the world was Tokyo! This city is the amazing capital of Japan, a really fast technology wise growing country, and it really shows! The first site we went to see when we got there was the Tokyo Tower, but before getting there we had to use the subway. The subway was amazing, in that it was so high tec. and advanced than anything I'd seen before. Here is a picture of some of the crazy things we saw there:

Doesn't it look kinda wierd yet really cool at the same time!? I was kinda surprised because I've never actually seen a subway before but I've been on a Sky Train and it didn't look like that...! I thought it was really neat looking at that and seeing the blurs go by as we sped underground all the way to the Tokyo Tower. When we finally got out, we realized how sunny it was outside since we'd been underground for a long time.

The Tokyo Tower was amazing and if you see it you'll really see the striking resemblance between the tower and the Effel Tower shown below:

We went around to lots of different places like The Rainbow Bridge, The National Diet Building, the two different ends of the city, and of course the Tokyo Tower all shown below from the top down!

I had a really great time seeing all the new technology out there and experiencing new things, but it's time to go off to the next place in my Trip around the world (kinda)!