Asia Travel Blogs - Page 3

Today we are leaving Kyoto for Tokyo on the Nozomi bullet train. Kevin is flying home while I continue to Taiwan!Since our hotel in Kyoto is right above the train station, it was a short walk to the platform. We took the fast Nozomi bullet train from Kyoto to Tokyo, with very few stops. In the bull…

And so me made the full circle- start and end in Hongkong. When we came here first time the weather wasn't that great, now it's sunny and awesoem. The same spots look different, and the skyline is much better! We stayed at the same hostel (Chunking Mansion) because we were to lazy to search for a n…

Today myself and Kenton, my American roommate from San Fancisco trekked back up to the restored part of the Great Wall of China to take a few photos in the sun before heading back to pack and shower. We checked out of our guest house and boarded the bus back to Beijing. By the time we reached Bei…

            INDIA THE MOVIE Art director: Jacqinmiddenamerika   While making India the movie I realised how wonderful or I must say incredible it was to travel through India. All those wonderful colours, nice and helpful people, beautiful landscapes …

Chinatown bezocht vandaag. Daar was ik vorig jaar ook al geweest maar toen was het minder vwarm. De drukte in die wijk is ingelooflijk, chok vol lawaai en autos en mensen... Dus ik ben niet erg lang gebleven maar het was wel wel een goede oefening in het straatoversteken want hectisch is het daar w…

On board cebupacific flight 5J 804 bound for Manila, Philippines. How many times have I been on this flight now? I'm not sure, but what I'm sure of is that booking this Singapore-Manila flight has been like a regular every couple of months habit, hehe. But then, this is definitely not the same as …

At 7 am I arrived in Kuala Lumpur!   So where are the koala’s? (not my joke) For just a short while I took the train and metro to spend an hour in Malaysia’s capital. My first impression is not a really good one. I was looking forward to seeing this city, but now when I look back I do s…

What!?   Carbagges and Condom Restuarant !???? Hahaa...i never know it before that there are this kind of restuarant in BKK..and Karen is the reason of it!! Karen is the gal from Australia..she told me she and her family plan to thailand and to dinner at the Carbagges and Condom…

Singapore's name was, according to my second hand book swap Lonely Planet, originally derived from the Sumatran words for lion and city. If the city is indeed a lion (although in the financial world it's known as one of the Asian Tigers - go figure) then its government is a…

I can't sleep at night, I toss and turn I listen to the radio Yes, these are the things I did last night while trying to get to sleep but with Bali in my mind nothing seemed to work. I had images flashing into my mind of wave after wave rolling into the beach with surfers riding each set into t…

Brett came home early and we decided to make a quick stop into town for some last minute shopping.  There are these art/scrapbooking markers my Mom has been wanting and Brett wanted to make sure he sent some back with me for how (what a great future son-in-law, huh?).  We bought all the m…

 DINAGYANG FESTIVAL  (Iloilo, January 25-27, 2008)  Celebrated every 4th weekend of January, Dinagyang festival honors the Christianization of the natives and respects the Holy Child Jesus. There are colorful parades highlighted by a drammatization in honor of the patron saint Sto. …

ORD-NRT, UA 881, 747-400, 39A Good News - Nobody was sitting in the middle seat on my flight.  Bad news - due to a plane change with a different configuration, I lost the economy plus seat that I had payed for and ended up in regular economy.  Now I need to find some time to request a re…

My folks and my brothers drove me to NAIA to see me off then when I got there, they waited for me outside while I checked in my baggage and paid for damn airport taxes. Well, I only got my backpack, a huge laptop bag and big box of Krispy Kreme for my cousins so I could manage. Although at that poi…

  Suvarnabhumi At Suvarnabhumi, everybody looks at us because our water gun (on Chiang Mai Airport Air Asia's check in sayd us thet we couldn't board the gun, but we tryed and success!), we spend so much time looking for the bus station and thinking where to go in Bangkok. We ask many taxi d…