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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Tips on travelling, how to get most out of your travels


You can hire a three wheeler taxi relatively inexpensive in Thailand to tour the city at midnight.

I took the tastiest fried rice at a Bangkok seafood restaurant. At S$8 with their homegrown prawns and very sweet orange juices. Some belts and silk goods is worth buying.

Hong Kong at night(photo). Hong Kong mass rapid transit even at midnight it were overflow with travellers. Hong Kong never sleep.





I prefers to travel with tour groups because they took care of the logistics and admin. The got discount of air tickets, hotels and foods.

If I want to stay longer in one place I would venture on my own at night after the end of the day itineraries.

In Japan I walk a record of 6.5 hours non-stop in Tokyo on my own. Unfortunately my roll of films were not properly put in the camera, so all the 36 photos which I took were spoilt.

After 6.5 of walking throughout Tokyo I got lost. When I asked for directions of my hotels, a kind person drove me back to the hotel.

At the China tour I prefer to stay extra days in Hong Kong and asked for our tour ticket to go back on our own. Fortunately it turn out to be a right move.

The extra day at Hong Kong I walk the cities until after midnight. There foods at the alley were very tasty my best indulgence were the beef soups, tipping some chillies oil inside the soup.

A member of the tour group ask his relative to bring us around Guangzhou to eat among the best tim sum. Even at midnight it was overflow with customers. The place never sleep even at midnight it were bustling with activities.

Even at midnight the Hong Kong MRT were fully loaded.

Cool countries need to prepare for windbreaker, gloves and thick clothing when you go there in winter etc.

In Europe a doctor and his wife half way drop off the itineraries and join us back at the end of the tour.

In Thailand when I touch down at might I when around the cities for few before I went back to sleep and wake up in the morning.

The best part is after hours of walking. Went back to the hotel turn on the long bathtub warm water. Submerge in it for half an hour to ease my fatigue.

Give generous tips, when you ask the tour manager to bring you to some unusual or interesting places, which is not in the tour itineraries.

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Palau Ubin holiday resort


After our group tour back from China, we contact each other to share our travel photos. On and off we came out for some meals li like steamboat.

We decided to overnight at P. Ubin. The There are only 4 units of terrace houses for rent at Ubin and only an insider can rent it. So imagine the difficulties in renting it.

As there are 4 units in the whole island for holiday maker so it is very exclusive. I always like to go to some pristine place to enjoy the beautiful sunrise, sunset and the moon.

There are barbecue facilities and air conditioners. We decided to cook some noodles. I show them the secrets of cooking tasty noodles. The secrets lies in the fried shallots oil and the fried shallots. As I had work as a hawker and do the cooking for my mother.

The holiday resort were near the beach so at night we can enjoy the nice sea breeze at the beach and do some barbecue. Visitors use to go there to rent the bicycles to enjoy the nature and biodiversities.

Two persons who are the relatives of a tour group members where invited to join us. They had brought us to a tim sum restaurant at Guangzhou, even at midnight it was overflown with customers.

I had taken among the tastiest tim sum there, there were huge varieties of tim sum for us to choose.