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Things to do in Amsterdam

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 Amsterdam Every year, to celebrate my birthday, I travel somewhere, in 2019 I went to Morocco , in 2020 to Israel and this year (2022) I decided to visit Amsterdam. It was a long time since I wanted to visit this city and there I have a friend that I wanted to see, so with these three points combined, I decided to visit Amsterdam in winter. I spent five days in Amsterdam and I visited the city plus some places outside like Zaanse Schans, Zandvoort and Haarlem. One important thing is that I forgot my camera so all the pictures were taken with my phone, maybe the quality is not high but I think they are anyway beautiful. Amsterdam is the capital and the most populous city of the Netherlands, with a population close to a million. It is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the north" due to the large number of canals which form a UNESCO world heritage site since 2010. Amsterdam was founded at the Amstel, the city's name derives from the Amstel dam, originating as a sm

Volunteer work in Japan, Minamata

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Minamata, Japan Minamata is on the southern island of Japan, Kyushu, in the Kumamoto prefecture. This city is known for the Minamata disease, a mercury poisoning caused by a polluted sea in front of the city, because of that now the city is one of the most ecological in the world. I suggest a movie, title Minamata, about what happened in the city with Johnny Depp.  I was there for two weeks volunteering, the topic of the work camp I did was to stop global warming. Our volunteer work was collecting bamboo in the way to produce charcoal that is a green source of energy and a filter for tap water. A second thing that we did was to go to a junior high school and follow their eco-program, an activity that we did was to clean a beach. It was a very nice period, I was inside the local community, did useful work and knew nice people. Fukuro, Minamata, Japan We were living in this village of Minamata, in a guest house that is the typical Japanese house that you have in mind, a wooden ho

Tokyo things to do in the capital of Japan

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Tokyo, Japan I passed a month in Japan between October and November 2019, personally, I think it is the best time to visit Tokyo and Japan in general, because it is out of the hurricane period and it is not too hot and humid.  I volunteered for two weeks on the southern Island and the other two weeks I travelled around the country. I've been here twice, at the beginning and at the end of my trip. Here I will talk about the best places to visit in Tokyo. I really liked Tokyo and Japan in general, the capital is huge, with a mix of tradition and modernity, skyscrapers and temples. I didn't spend a lot of time here, or as much as Tokyo needs, I preferred to spend my time around Japan visiting as much as it was possible. Ueno park It is a big park in the Ueno district, it was one of the first parks in the city and it was established in the land of the Kan'ei-ji temple. In the park, there are several monuments, a museum and it is the main place to see the sakura in spring

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