The 2011 Tohoku tsunami and how I fell in love with Japan
Jamie Lafferty is an incredibly well travelled Scotsman, having been all over the world writing and photographing for the likes of the Sunday Times, The Guardian, National Geographic Traveller, Wanderlust and more. It was back in 2011 that we first knew of him, as he got the enviable job of blogging for the pioneering Travel Volunteer project, which saw him travel the whole of Japan. Chances are you may have read some of Jamie’s work before, but you can find out more about him here. This is the story of his first encounter with Japan... I could hardly have been any safer. Over 10,000 miles away, and almost 3,000m above sea level in the Bolivian city of Sucre, high in the Andes, the extreme dryness of the Atacama Desert covered most of the land between me and the Pacific Coast. Th ...
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