Asia Travel Blogs - Page 7

Recently, member “tvillingmarit”, remarked on my photos of entry number 2 of this blog that she had never visited the Taj Mahal, and asked if I could help her.   Now you know me, I’d help an old lady across the street even if she didn’t want to go. So I got out my trusty software and…

Yeah, one year old on TB so what am I gonna today? Throw out a party? Buy myself a cake? No, maybe I'll just celebrate it at the next day's July 17 Global Manila Meet-up if I make it to the event? The July 17 meet-up is the closest TB event to July 16 so that could be my way of celebrating my first…

I've only been in this nation for less than 9 months but it seems years. Every month there is something happening in this part of the world that keeps everyone on its toes. Below is a summary of the events/issues I have just been able to experience and hear about, which is not even one eighth o…

My journey to come to Bangkok Meet Up was not easy. Everything seems not in the right place. Starting from my flight from Pekanbaru to Kuala Lumpur was delayed for 2 hours and it meant there would be a big possibility I would miss my connecting flight from Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok. Fortunately, I ma…

In preparation of our long flight today we sleep late, we get up at 7.30 a.m. and take our time for breakfast. To end our holiday in style Trudy has caught another case of the runs this morning, but fortunately she doesn’t really feel sick. The warm breakfast buffet of the Panorama Hotel has soun…

The speed boat brought us safely ashore and we walked into the town in search of some kind of transport. We wanted the public bus or something but found the aircon bus to BKK! Nice curtains and comfortable seats, we wouldn't ask for more! 

I have thought to do solo backpacking around South East Asia for many, many months. Gathering information from some good TB friends, researching the internet and reading travel books were my TOP priority activities for the past few months as part of preparation for fulfilling this dream. At first I…

7:30 PM - Non-sense meeting. I don't know how many times I rolled my eyes. I don't know how many time I resisted not to yawn. We are supposed to meet at Isabetlog's place before we would go to the bus station.8:00 PM -  I was running from one building to another, wrote a quick updates to my co…

After yet another overnight train, I landed in Mumbai about 7 a.m. and headed for the Salvation Army hostel, serving up dorm beds for a mere 150 rupees, but just don't expect a hot shower and clean toilet.  In fact, don't ever expect that anywhere in India.  So far I've had cold showers o…

I was gonna meet Ronnie at a coffee shop (outside) in Sakae. I got there on time and waited for a bit. I thought I got there early cuz people usually come late.. I looked at the coffee shop and there he was, talking to a staff. He waved me so I waved him back. He later told me he was chatting to a…

Boarding a cruise ship is not as easy as it looks on the Love Boat. Since this is my first cruise, and since I was an avid watcher of the Love Boat and since we are sailing Princess Cruises, all of my references are to the show! We do not have a bartender named Isaac. :) From Bangkok we had to ge…

I have been with travbuddy for 3 months already and since i read about TB meet-ups, i had been longing to join one and so finally when Josh (the_bloodsucker) posted about Philippines TravBuddies' Grand Meet-up last June 12, i was sooo excited. I looked up my schedule and was soo glad that i could f…

As a single Filipina traveling alone on the islands I was invariably asked the same questions.  Why was I traveling alone? To which I replied that no one could get the same length of vacation leave as I did.  But what I was really asked more often than not was one question.  Why wasn…

I woke up as Jear rustled about, checked the time and realized it was before 5:30 am!!!Out of  habit but with less enthusiasm as I stayed till midnight watching the closing episode of Temptation Island, I then invited myself to joining him walk around the beach. Barely gargling and without wa…

these photos are the result of a day wandering around the city with no exact destination ; ) however here in jakarta and i believe also in the other part of the planet (singapore is not to be mentioned) bombing is considered to be a crime, so we can only enjoy these kinda street art only for a whil…