Asia Travel Blogs - Page 12

As many of my friends on Travbuddy know, I have been unwell since coming back from India. To cut the story short, something showed up on a CT scan of my lung after I complained of feeling breathless, very tired and lethargic and having chest pains when I got home, 2 months after my trip. 8 months …

Today I went to the aquarium. Bought the one day Kaiku pass for both the subway and the aquarium for 2400 Yen, a few yen cheaper than the single ticket approach. Took the subway to the Osaka Harbor, and it was another 10 minute walk to the aquarium. The aquarium was organized as many subsecctions c…

After the last time in KL, we really felt like something was missing as we never saw the Petronas Towers up front despite the lovely Elva asking to go swimming in the fountains constantly... We had unfinished business and this time..... this time it was personal..... As people always say, if you …

Natty organized a meetup in Bangkok. I don't know why she named the meetup special for me :P You ask her. The rest of the story is under construction.

January 3 marked the first ever Travbuddy Meetup in Manila, well, that is as far as we all know (if it isn't, make that first in 2008), attended by eight free-spirited travbuddies who all have one common denominator--- WE ARE ALL CRAZY FOR TRAVELS! After a series or postponements and two weeks…

The Travel Tour Expo is the biggest event for the travel and tourism industry attracting over 50,000 buyers participants with over 150 exhibiting companies occupying 315 booths.   Guided by the theme “Beyond Borders”, no other event provides the Philippine-based traveler with travel opti…

I left the hotel, lit up a cigarette and took a walk down the street. I was looking at all the things the street vendors were selling. I took a final puff of my cigarette and tossed it into the gutter as I crossed the street. I get to the other side when some guy who appears to be dressed as a h…

As we had opted for in staying the shopping area of  Bangkok we felt we should do it justice and so spent the last 2 days looking round the vast air conditioned shopping centres.  The MBK shopping centre was truly remarkable.  It was a bit like a posh indoor market, wi…

And its cool. In a weird sort of way I suppose! I arrived at Hong Kong airport after my 13 hour flight looking forward to getting to my hostel, on the train on the way into the city, I'd realised I'd left my phone and camera on the plane on the seat next to me. ( I was the last to get off and I had…

Where should we spend our honeymoon? My wife and I had gone over this topic several times. Six months before our wedding took place  we remembered an invitation we had received a year ago: "Come, visit us in Indonesia!" Friends of ours, Doris and Michael, were living in Malang (Java) in tho…

Our organizers were soo kind to treat us to the Science Center of Singapore. They paid the admission fee (S$ 6 for adults and S$ 3 for children) and the ticket for the IMAX movie which ran for 40 minutes (S$10 for adults and S$5 for children). The movie was about DINOSAURS - and the kids had t…

I had mastered how to use MRT today and I held the map. I was confident to explore Singapore by myself ;-) But, I needed to ask a stranger to take a pict of me, as a prove that I was there :-(

Haha, Well I guess my title doesn't sound too exciting.. 27.5 total hours from Houston to Bangkok.  I left Houston on a little less than 4 hours of sleep, early Monday morning, around 6am.  I flew to Newark, NJ where I was the only person in the state probably wearing shorts and …

After eleven hours and twenty Sudoku puzzles later, we finally landed at Nagoya's Chubu International Airport. This airport was newly built when Nagoya hosted the World Expo in '05. Walking out of the airplane, I immediately noticed the humidity in the air. Here we are...! We were going to ta…

Today, I met the other 2 members of my group...we are not a big group but it is nice. :)  Both seem fairly nice. I spent most of the day wandering around Bombay with the other girl on my tour (who's name I already forgot...oops...I am so terrible with names).  It was fun.  Time went…