Ellie Everywhere

[Day One第一天]
I flew to San Fran for a weekend to attend my best friend from elementary school's wedding. 
I arrived San Francisco International Airport at night, and my friend Andrew very kindly came to pick me up. 
He lives in El Cerrito, it's about a half an hour drive from SFO, passed by the Bay Bridge on the way to his house; it is really pretty to view it at night.
In the morning, I went for a quick run around his neightbourhood, and he took me to Lawrence Hall of Science, above the University of Berkeley, to see the daylight view of San Francisco and Oakland

[From Kyoto to Osaka從京都到大阪]
Fushimi Inari-taisha shrine wraps up my trip in Kyoto.
This shrine was definitely on my bucket list. I have seen it in so many people's FB or IG pages or in dramas, so I was looking forward to visiting this shrine.
We left our luggage in the lockers at Kyoto Station. I can't remember how many hours I paid for, probably three hours or so, and it was $700yen. 
We then took the subway to go to Fushimi Inari-tasiha. You don't need an admission fee to get in~

I can only write this blog in English as I'm at work, and my work laptop does not have Mandarin keyboard lol
Just found and booked a kick ass promotion from Vancouver to Las Vegas direct flight roundtrip fom Air Canada for $356, taxes included!!
I've flown to Vegas numerous times, and I have never seen a deal that is this good; usually direct flight starts around $400 Canadian dollars.
There is a cheap flight deals I follow on Facebook called "Next Departure," and the deal was posted on there this morning https://www.facebook.com/nextdeparture/?fref=nf 
The amazing promotion can be found here http://nextdeparture.ca/flight-deal/vancouver-to-las-vegas-294-cad-and-miami-379-cad-roundtrip-including-taxes-air-canada-rouge/

[From Tokyo to Kyoto從東京到京都]
After our lovely visit at Tokyo, Amy and I took the Shinkasen and headed over to Kyoto.
In my previous post about our stay in Tokyo, I forgot to mention something quite important for the people who are planning to travel to different cities in Japan, which is the the question of how many suitcase one should bring?
Before I left, I already knew that it would be a pain in the ass to travel to different cities with more than one luggage, but at the same time, it is very hard to resist to not buy cosmetic related products or souvenirs when you're in Japan. For a girl like me, who brings at least four different types of shoes when I travel, it is indeed a very difficult task to stuff everything in one big suitcase under 23kg. 
I brought one big suitcase to Japan, and Amy brought a carry on and one medium suicase. My luggage was of course overweight, so I had to take things out to hand carry when I was at Osaka Airport. 

Some ask based on my first post how did I manage to find such a good deal for direct flight from Vancouver to Japan, Japan to Taiwan, Taiwan to Hong Kong, and Hong Kong back to Vancouver?
There is a site called YVR Deals http://www.yvrdeals.com/
So many awesome deals are here! If you're a travel lover, make sure to sign up for the newsletter for this group!
They also have a private group on Facebook called "Vancouver Flight Deals & Travel Specials II ( YVR-2 )."
You need an invitation to get into this group. If you would like to join, feel free to private message me on Facebook, and I can add you in this group.

[Intro介紹]
I finally decided to write about my travel experiences. I had this thought for a long time already, but I had been procrastinating really badly.... lol
I wanted to share my travel experiences and hope that will help the people who are traveling =)
I have been traveling quite frequently since 2012, been to New York, Vegas, LA, Miami, Orlando, Cancun, Cuba, Bahamas, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Paris, London, Spain. 
The most recent travel experince I had was traveling to Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong back in October 2015.