Category: ASEAN

Even it was just a quick trip, but I did enjoy the night there, Melaka is such as the sister of Penang. We rode from KL about more than 2 hours on car, when I first arrived to Melaka made me feel of Penang, street full of mural painting, colorful of lighting. We were sneaking to some sightseeing in Melaka such, sand dune, mural painting, riverside, local market and some historic sites of Melaka. Melaka-Sand dune Sand dune is one of attractive site for both tourist and local, not that big like the real dune but it is manmade. People Read More …

The more I am getting old the more I feel that I do not really like a birthday wish or a present. I have put off the birthday alarm on Facebook and other social medias. I just want to spend time with myself, off to somewhere that is no one can recognize me as MJ, and explore the part of the world with my own, and enjoy with strangers. How to get Phu Quoc island from Cambodia On Friday evening, I left work and catch the bus from Phnom Penh to Kampong Trach where is the border of Cambodia-Vietnam, and Read More …

Street art is one of my bucket lists, and it has known as the world heritage of Penang Malaysia. Many of my friends have been there, so why not me? About 20km from airport to downtown, you have two options here by taxi costs you 35MYR or by shuttle bus 3MYR [Rapid Penang Bus] every 15minutes. Bus will stop you at Kamta Pusat bus station, look around then you will see [CAT] for free shuttle bus in town, catch the bus at stop #9, I booked hostel with [Just Inn] so it was located at stop #14. I would like Read More …

Putrajaya is the city of Malaysia, south of KL, it is popular on Putra mosque, Putra bridge and the man-made Putrajaya lake. I got to Putra from KL by many stops links to KTM and KLIA transit, I left from Kuchai lama by car and caught the KTM in the mid valley mega mall to the KL sentral where many buses, trains link to many destinations in KL. I bought the ticket at the KLIA transit counter to Putrayaja and the last stop of the train is KLIA and KLIA 2 airport, cost me 14RM pay the attention on the Read More …

Singapore is composed of one main island, there are four official languages: English, Malay, Mandarin and Tamil. 2011 was my first flight to Singapore, I have been to Vietnam, Thailand, but I made it by road. I went to Singapore on Halloween while every road blocked by people. Many difference styles of costume dressed up. Singapore is extremely small city, with MRT you can get around. There are some main spots like: China town, Orchard road, Clarke town, Marina bay, Chinese garden, Merlion park, Skyline and water fountain. There are no street foods in Singapore, I don’t really like Singapore’s Read More …

Sapa is standing in the northern of Vietnam, about 5 hours from Hanoi. I would recommend here to take the train instead of bus. When I visited Sapa I took the bus because my very late flight to Hanoi I couldn’t catch the train schedule on time. First arrived to Sapa I just simply love it this cool town in temperature about 8-13c it was freezing. First day of the tour we did trekking to the native villages about 15Km walking from our hotel. I stayed in the [Elite hotel] was reviewed in the great score. We had the awesome Read More …

First solo travel to Bangkok and Myanmar: Yangon and Mandalay. Travel alone will make you know what is your SWOT, what do you exactly want and figure out who you are. There are pros and cons between traveling in group and solo. Traveling in group you will have someone take care of you or you will take care them, take photos for you, talk to you, and we can share laughter happy together. But if we look another side more people in group makes you trouble of dealing with many stuff, members are always late, some argument of misunderstanding, blur Read More …

There three cities are connected: [Hue-Hoi An-Danang] driver dropped us on the street and we gotta walk like 200 meters to the hostel, it named [Quan Quan]. it was quite nice weather there in Danang city but no one speaks English, we had used google translate to communicate each other, that was really helpful. The weather down to 19c at day time with windy and turns to 15c at night time, that what I could not stand for. We had a half day due the first arriving in Danang city, so we decided to do a city tour on our Read More …

3 hours and half from Hue to Hoi An with minivan, it charged 12USD including tour guide. We passed by Marble Mountain is one of the landmark place for the tourist. Hoi An is the ancient town, pretty tiny but so fascinating, there are so many things to do. We first checked in hostel that we did booking through the booking.com, I won’t have recommended you here, [Vinh Huy] hotel costs about 13usd per night and the way they treated customer was so impolite, I was trying to say hello to her, she sat at the next chair close to Read More …

We flew from Tam Son Nhat international airport, we arrived to Hue about 11-30am then headed to our hostel. “Hue Boutique” Vietjetair is so much cheaper for local flight with a lot of promotions, just keep hunting on it. First day in Hue, I woke up in the awesome weather about 19-21 degree, People at Hue Boutique was very friendly, welcome, helpful with their beautiful smile.  I was really appreciated with the way they treated me. They provided a lot of information such as: where to eat, places to go, specialist local foods, it’s about 10Km from the airport to Read More …