It was sunny and warm during my last day in Hong Kong. I would have liked to stay there longer but my flight was departing around noon so I had to get to the airport around 10am. I had a wonderful view from the plane on Hong Kong. We landed in Osaka around 5.30pm on 15th November and I saw a sunset from the plane. I had to get to my host in Kayashima and it was a long way from the airport, I spent 2 hours travelling. I got in the train at the airport and I had to change at Kyobashi. There was a Japanese girl sitting next to me, she didn't speak English but she had a translator in her phone. She asked me where I was going and then she accompanied me to Kayashima. It was already quite cold in the evening and I didn't bring any warm clothes so she went to a shop and bought a hot coffee for me. I don't like coffee but I warmed up my hands at least. Then she called my host and he came to pick me up at the station. His house was around 15 minutes far by walking from Kayashima. There was a street with lanterns and I ate takoyaki there. Takoyaki are balls made of wheat flour and octopus sprinkled with seaweed and dried fish. My host was a Chinese guy who had been living in Japan 8 years. It was cold in Osaka and people in Japan usually don't use heating at home so I was freezing during my last week in Japan.
My host was busy on Sunday and I left his home in the morning to visit Osaka castle. I got lost on my way to Kayashima and I asked the way some people who I met but most of them didn't speak English. I walked along the motorway and there was a local restaurant where I went to have a lunch. I bought miso soup, chicken and rice for 550 yen. I was already so frustrated for not being able to find a way to the metro station that I decided to hitchhike. After 20 minutes of waiting I was picked up by an elderly couple who took me directly to the Osaka castle. I spent some hours there, it was sunny and around 16°C, but it warm only around noon and after 3pm it started to get colder quickly.

 
When I left the castle I bought milk tea and some chocolate biscuits in a shop and then I walked around the city. Osaka is a modern and industrial city with not many places to visit. I was getting cold and I went to a shopping mall and then I returned to Kayashima. I bought takoyaki again and I met my host. I went to sleep around midnight.
I woke up after 9am on Monday and I went to Nara. It was cloudy whole day. I walked to the motorway again and I hitchhiked, A guy picked me up soon and he dropped me at a petrol station. I waited around half an hour there until two women stopped. They were mother and daugther and they took me to Ikoma which is a city located close to Nara. I took train and I got to Nara around 2pm. I went to a Kofukuji temple firstly and then I walked in the Nara park with the fallow deer.

There were many tourists and also Japanese people in the park, I asked them to take photos of me. Many people admired colorful leaves (koyo in Japanese). It was a spectacular view. 

I went to visit Todaiji temple with the big statue of Buddha. When I finished visiting it was 4pm and it was getting dark already.

I still managed to do some sightseeing but it was getting dark quickly and I had to go back to Osaka. I hitchhiked again but I had no luck firstly, it was dark and nobody stopped for half an hour. Then I met two women from Osaka who were also sightseeing in Nara, they picked me up and they told me we were going to see more places. We were driving in the dark but we got lost on some hill and we had to return. We stopped in a shop and they bought me milk tea and sushi and then they invited me for dinner and we ate ramen noodles in a restaurant. They were so kind with me that they took me directly to Kayashima. I was very lucky to meet many helpful people during my journey.

My trip to Macao lasted only one day but it was an exciting experience. I took a ferry from the China ferry terminal at the Hong Kong island on 15th November. The journey lasted one hour and I arrived in Macao around 10:30am, but there were such long lines at the customs that it took me around 45 minutes to pass it. It was a bad luck because I set up a meeting with a girl called Kiko from CS and she had to wait for me almost one hour. When I met her we rode a motorbike around Macao, it was cloudy firstly but then the weather became sunny and it was around 23°C. Although it remained slightly foggy for the whole day it was a really nice weather. We went to an Italian restaurant at noon, I ate pasta with cheese and then we walked around the city, I saw a small temple firstly and then we visited the Ruins of St. Paul's.

We walked around the historic centre of Macao and we saw several casinos. We took a bus to the Taipa island and we went to the luxury casino and hotel the Venetian. There was a little river inside the building and a guy sailing on a gondoliere. 

After visiting the Venetian we walked to a shop with a durian ice cream, durian cake and jelly. We bought it and we went to a restaurant where we were told not to eat that there because of the strong smell. Then we walked to the Galaxy resort located on the Cotai strip. 

There was a free bus from the Galaxy resort which we had to take to get to the ferry terminal. When we were crossing the bridge the one side of the river was illuminated by the hotels and casinos while the other side was very dark. Kiko told me that the dark side was China. When we got to the ferry terminal I met another couchsurfer but only for 5 minutes because I had to hurry to catch my ferry. I left Macao around 7:30, the journey was a bit scary because there was a strong wind and big waves. The ferry was jumping on the waves and it felt like riding a roller coaster. Some passengers were screeching while the ferry was jumping. When I got to Hong Kong it took only 2 minutes to pass the customs. I went to the Tsim Tsa Tsui promenade, it was an amazing view but the wind was very strong and it was drizzling. Then I took a metro to Causeway Bay and I got to my host's flat at 11pm.

When I visited Hong Kong for the first time in November 2013 I thought that it was probably the most beautiful place I have ever seen, that's why it was very disappointing for me when I got there again on 13th November 2014 and I found out that the weather was bad, it was windy and cloudy. It was around 18°C but the wind made it feel much colder. I had to change money at the airport and I was going to visit the Tai O fishing village which is on the Lantau island. I couldn't leave my suitcase to the airport so I had to take it with me. I took a bus to Tung Chung where I had to change to another bus to Tai O. The journey took around one hour and when I got there I went to a local restaurant where I ordered fried egg with bacon. Afterwards I walked around to see some shops and then I met a guy who was around 65, he was Canadian but his origin was Chinese. We bought wafers with herbal flavour and then we went on a cruise in the fishing village. This village was quite run-down comparing to the fishing village in Brunei, the houses were old and poor.

Then we took a bus to Tung Chung where I drank milk tea and I ate lemon cake. Afterwards I went to visit Ten Thousand Buddha Monastery, but it was already 5pm when I got there and the monastery was just closing, I saw just the road which was surrounded by the statues of Buddha.

Then I took metro to my host in Causeway Bay, he cooked some pasta for me and then we went out, we walked around by night and we went also to the shopping mall. The following day I took a ferry to Macao. 

My host in Brunei Darussalam was an Italian guy who was working for a food delivery company. He picked me up at the airport at 2am. He had bought some noodles for me and I ate them when we got home. He shared a house with other people and he also hosted 3 French guys that night. The weather was hot, around 30°C, and unpleasantly humid. In the morning I met a couchsurfer who came to my host's house to pick me up. We visited most tourist places in Bandar Seri Begawan, we went to Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque and Jame'ar Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque.

Afterwards we went to a shopping mall and then we took a boat to the water village. There were houses on stilts, some of them were modern while some others quite old. We went also to a jungle where we saw waterfalls and carnivorous plants. Then we had a lunch in a restaurant, I ordered chicken with rice. We went to the Empire hotel to see the sunset, I swam in the sea and the water had around 30°C. Then we met my host on the beach. The following day my host took me to the port and I took ferry from Muara to Labuan and then to Kota Kinabalu. The journey to Labuan started at 9:30am and it took around 3 hours. I almost missed a ferry to Kota Kinabalu because it was leaving at 1pm but fortunately I managed to buy a ticket quickly and I made it on time. The ferry was comfortable, they showed a movie during the journey, but the air conditioning was so heavy that it was only around 15°C inside the boat and I was cold although I wore my jacket. When I arrived in Kota Kinabalu it rained but the rain stopped soon. I talked to a tour guide in the port until my host came. I didn't have time to eat all day and he bought me sandwiches. In the evening we went to a local restaurant and we ordered a lot of delicious seafood, rice and seaweed.
The following day we visited a local market firstly where we bought some tropical fruit and then we went to waterfalls where we ate the fruit. We went to a restaurant which was called Taliban food centre and we ate bread with dip but it was too spicy for me.

Then my host took me to a beach and we spent nearly 3 hours in the water. I swam and I saw fishes and corals but the water was dim so they didn't look amazing. The water close to the shore was as hot as bath water and we stayed there till sunset, when we were going out we found out that the water was full of jellyfishes. I touched one of them accidentally but I didn't get hurt. My host cooked dinner for me, we had soup, seafood and also a local food called ambuyat which was a starchy bland substance. We drank rice wine called sake. In the morning on 13th November we had to get up very early because I had to catch my flight to Hong Kong.