Hello MANILA (We Meet Again)!

Posted on July 12, 2012 by jipp

It would be my second time to the Philippines – or rather Manila – and somehow I was so excited about the trip probably because I hadn’t really traveled anywhere this year apart from my weekend getaway to Brunei and later Singapore (which I don’t really consider a travel trip because I went there for a marathon).

It would be totally a different experience for me because I was going to travel with my family members for the first time. I knew, it would not be easy and I had to let myself be prepared for the worst since they themselves had never crossed any international border ever before except for my elder sister who went to Medan on a tour package last year. Continue reading →

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The Day I Visited the Angkor Wat

Posted on July 10, 2012 by jipp

Previously on my trip to Cambodia, I blogged about us doing the Grand Tour at the Angkor Wat temples. Of course, we had to spare the Mini Tour for the next day because we wanted to do what most people would do when they come to Siem Reap – to view the Angkor Wat (which is part of Mini Tour) at sunrise.

Riding on a Tuk Tuk at five in the morning, we knew instantly that we had made a HUGE mistake by coming to Siem Reap without a single piece of thick cloth and we now had to face the consequences. It was so smiting cold that none of us could even mutter a word without stuttering so everybody chose not to talk at all.  Brrrrr! LOL

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People were already piling up when we arrived at the entrance to Angkor Wat. A cycling event was about to take off so there were more people than it would have been if there was no event going on at all. Continue reading →

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Malaysia or Jakarta?

Posted on June 18, 2012 by jipp

Previously on my trip to Bali, I wrote about our experiences of watching Barong Dance in Batubulan. Then we headed off to Kintamani – the mountainous area on the North East part the island which is famous for its beautiful volcano and lake view.

Look, you can’t really tell for sure if somebody is honest or not in Bali because they really know how to convince you that they are (honest). The driver looked so honest, I mean, he probably was – depending on how you define ‘honesty’ in a person. Continue reading →

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Tanjung Labian : Visiting the Nose of The Dog

Posted on June 14, 2012 by jipp

Out of so many places that I went to when I went road-tripping all over Sabah for almost 2 weeks last month, there was one place that I really wanted to blog about. It is called Tanjung Labian.

Located on the furthest East of Sabah, which is on the nose end tip of the dog that shapes out the island of Borneo on the map, it is actually the place where the sunshine touches down before all here in Malaysia.

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I had always wanted to go there for that fact alone, but most especially when the government decided to build a coal-fired power plant there some time ago. Continue reading →

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Think Shopping, Think The Connaught

Posted on June 12, 2012 by jipp

If you had a few hours to spend for your very last shopping on your very last day in New Delhi, consider heading down to a place called The Connaught just like what we did on our very last day in New Delhi.

After returning to New Delhi from the UNESCO site Qutab Minar, we decided that we shouldn’t go back to the comfort of the hotel room right away – not too soon. Instead, we flagged down a Tuk Tuk and asked to be sent to The Connaught.

The Connaught as seen on the Google Map looks more like a coliseum with a patio in the middle. In real, it is actually a cluster of shop lots with beautiful French architecture arranged to form a round circle with a huge park in the middle. Continue reading →

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