Nienke Krook

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Nienke Krook has been to Chitwan National Park in Bharatpur, Nepal.
over 1 year ago

Chitwan National Park — Like DJ Church

She was a big girl. She looked at me from behind those long lashes, and seemed to say "Climb on, big boy." So I did, along with another woman and man. It was that kind of party, it was that kind of day. Into the water we waded, holding on tight to the leathery skin of her back. Suddenly, she sprayed water from her trunk, soaking us from head to foot. Tiring of our presence, she rolled over, sending us flying into the water. Sputtering we climbed back onto her back, to be thrown again and again into the fast flowing river. She was a good time girl, but she made it clear this was her home, and we were in her bathtub. Bathing with Elephants—now playing at Chitwan National Park, Nepal.
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Nienke Krook has been to Osteria Enoteca Ai Artisti in Venezia, Veneto, Italy.
over 1 year ago

Osteria Enoteca Ai Artisti — Like Shasta McBride

Slip out of the tourist craze on the promenade and pop on the Vaporetto over to Dorsoduro where Venetians live and escape the madness of San Marco and the Bridge of Sighs. Wind your way to Enoteca Ai Artisti for the most down to earth deli selection of fresh homemade pastas and wine pairings. The tiny restaurant is all old brick and sits right on a canal with a few small tables of outdoor seating. Locals meet for drinks and are impressed with tourists that make it out to this hidden gem. It will be the most relaxing moment of your Venice bustle.
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Nienke Krook has been to Piazza San Marco in 30124 Venice Ve, Italy, Italy.
over 1 year ago
Nienke Krook has been to Akihabara in Akihabara, Japan, Japan.
over 1 year ago

Akihabara — Like Cheri Lucas

Tokyo, a landscape of juxtaposition, is serene and meditative—a center of shrines and contemplation—but also hectic and in-your-face—a technological consumer and gaming geek's heaven. In Akihabara, or Electric Town, you are bombarded with prerecorded sales pitches and jingles, bargains on all sorts of electronic goodies, and animation and cartoon manga products, particularly of the pornographic variety. Ground zero for sensory overload, this district is where you can balance out your moments of Zen at Ueno Park with street wanderings that are loud and chaotic. Even if you don't care for electronics, a dose of Akihabara is necessary: you experience the crazed side of Tokyo—the one with the short attention span—and glance at a significant aspect of Japanese culture.
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Nienke Krook has been to Shinjuku Station in 新宿区, 東京都, Japan.
over 1 year ago

Shinjuku Station — Like Cheri Lucas

Shinjuku Station is arguably the pulse of Tokyo, as it handles several million travelers per day. When you enter or exit one of the train station's openings—there are more than 200 exits—you experience the brisk, robotic pace of passengers scurrying to their destinations. The hub for rail traffic between central Tokyo and its suburbs, Shinjuku Station whisks sharply dressed, sometimes half-asleep businessmen, women wearing face masks while clutching Louis Vuitton purses, and trendy and bubbly teens reading manga on the Yamanote Line, as well as the railway, subway, and metro. Keeping up with the flow of "traffic" inside the station is a challenge, and riding the train is an adventure—and artin itself.
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Nienke Krook has been to Senso-ji Temple in Tokyo, Japan.
over 1 year ago

Senso-ji Temple — Like Cheri Lucas

While the Western world has appropriated the swastika into a controversial icon, the symbol had been free of stigma in ancient times—signifying good luck and prosperity in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. In Japan, the swastika is called manji. In Tokyo, head to Asakusa Station, stroll down the Nakamise—a maze of shops—and enter Senso-ji Temple, one of the city's most popular attractions. You will find the swastika displayed in various places on the temple's peaceful grounds, which may be jarring at first glance. As you wander past koi ponds and sculptures of the Buddha, you meditate on the meaning—and fascinating appropriation—of this symbol in our world's history.
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Nienke Krook has been to Harajuku Station in 東京都, Japan.
over 1 year ago

Harajuku Station — Like Cheri Lucas

Hop off the Yamanote Line at Tokyo's Harajuku Station and your senses are immediately stimulated: cosplay girls in crazy costumes posing for photos on one corner, Japanese teenagers crowding around a trendy shop in Takeshita Dori on another. Sift through these hip crowds, and you'll run into young Japanese artists working on their latest designs and sketches, using lots of color to produce playful, charismatic images. From cute anime characters to strange but cuddly creatures, it's a sampling of Tokyo's freshest local street art.
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Nienke Krook has been to Edo Tokyo Museum in Tokyo, Japan, Japan.
over 1 year ago

Edo Tokyo Museum — Like Mariah Kim

A surreal trip for architecture buffs and dilettantes alike, the Edo-Tokyo Museum is a collection of two dozen salvaged historic buildings, lined up in a village format in an enormous park on the outskirts of western Tokyo. Ranging from the late Edo Period to the 1950s, there are thatch-roofed farmhouses from the 1800s, a teahouse, soy sauce shop, bathhouse, police box, florist, and traditional Japanese and Western-style residences with period furnishings, including the house of esteemed Modernist architect Kunio Mayekawa, a real highlight.
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Nienke Krook has been to Nakamise at Sensoji Temple in 111 0032 Asakusa, Japan, Japan.
over 1 year ago

Nakamise at Sensoji Temple — Like Cheri Lucas

You exit Asakusa Station and walk through the Kaminarimon, the outer gate of Sensoji, one of the grand Buddhist temples in Tokyo. But before you reach the Hozomon, the main gate to the temple, you lose yourself in the Nakamise, a shopping maze of traditional Japanese goods like yukatas, folding fans, and local snacks like rice crackers and soft cakes filled with red bean paste. What's absolutely free, however, is the colorful art on the metal garage doors of closed businesses, which evokes the style and composition of Japanese prints and woodblocks. You see snowy landscapes, graphics with gorgeous gold backgrounds, and quiet, elegant designs of boats, paper lanterns, and other traditional iconography. Sure, you can buy cheesy trinkets as souvenirs for those back home, but the street art you see here is priceless.
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Nienke Krook has been to Tokyo Vending Machines in Tokyo, Japan.
over 1 year ago

Tokyo city streets — Like Larissa Olenicoff

For a city that never sleeps, vending machines are essential for the millions of people who live in Tokyo. Most of the machines around the city sell soda, coffee, tea, and cigarettes. The more interesting, but less common, provide you with beer, sake, batteries, cameras, rice, toilet paper, flowers, hot meals, comic books, buddhas, pornographic magazines, underwear, and even sex toys. Catch a glimpse of them at night when they are lit up like neon Christmas lights strung down the various alleyways and streets of one of the craziest cities on the planet.
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