The Tan Tans' Life Begins

The second stop of our trip was actually our main purpose of the trip. The ONSEN!! For this, we went to one of the hotel with Nanki Katsuura hot springs. Hotel Nakanoshima. It is the only hot spring on an island in Japan! Well, we definitely needed a ferry to reach the island and look at the cute ferries below: And a satisfied Mrs Tan Tan after the nice onsen. Oh well, what do you expect? Of cos it was impossible for me to take photographs in the onsen right. And I was enjoying every minute of it with no camera on hand. Just to be clear, it wasn't a mixed onsen (disappointed...) and there were just me with 2 other ojisans in the open-air onsen (rotenburo). But it felt great! The onsen directly faced the sea and one could enjoy the panoramic sea views while soaking. Definitely very very therapeutic and outstanding!! For more information, you can visit their website at http://www.hotel-nakanoshima.jp/english/index.html

ok... as the title of this blog suggests .... Wet, Wow and Wild. The Tan Tans had a Saturday made up of these 3 elements at Nagashima Spaland. For the first component of "Wet", the Tan Tans went to a blown-up version of Wild Wild Wet (Downtown East). The waterslides there were 3 times higher (you climb up a long flight of stairs and slide down from the 5th storey or so). Darn cool but I would not say the same about having to climb up flight after flight of stairs for the slides. The Tan Tans' legs are still aching as I am posting this entry. An interesting point to note about this water themepark is that the water used is extracted directly from the sea. Yes, it is seawater pumped up from the surrounding sea and not the newwater that we have in Singapore. haha From the pics, it's very obvious that the Tan Tans' are enjoying themselves. The tap you see in the photo on the right is actually an eye-washer. (that's cool right!) I do have to apologise that as muc...