Author archive
15 July 2015
We had a leisurely morning before checking out around 1130 and walking to the bus terminal. It was a breeze taking the bus to Batu Ferringhi for our one night at the Holiday Inn Resort. On the bus I chatted to this woman who had an El Nido bag. As it turns out, she (and […]
14 July 2015
We took the bus to Kek Lok Si temple today at Ayer Itam. The walk up was lined with stalls selling commercial and religious items. Strangely, for a Buddhist place, the traders were selling pictures of the Last Supper and Catholic icons too. Whatever makes money! Partway up was a pond full of tortoises. I […]
13 July 2015
We explored the old town by foot today. Starting from our hotel, we walked north passing many beautiful old Chinese buildings. We found our way to the main street which passed by the Kapitan Keling mosque. The surrounding areas were rather Indian with flower sellers and eateries. We continued to the Cheong Fatt Tze mansion […]
12 July 2015
One thing I didn’t do in Penang five years ago was visit the clan jetties. These are stilted homes built over the water with a jetty serving as the main access way. We took the CAT (free bus) from near our hotel to the ferry station, from which it was a short walk to the […]
11 July 2015
We woke before 0600. The hotel transport took us to Siem Reap airport but dropped us outside to avoid paying the USD1 entry fee. It is a good reminder that USD1 is a significant sum in this country. We didn’t mind the short walk to the terminal. The bag-drop and check-in queues weren’t exactly short. […]
10 July 2015
Nice weather had returned to Siem Reap. We set off at 0800 by tuktuk again to Eastern Mebon, picking up where we had left off the day before. The sunlight was perfect, illuminating the facade of the first few sights we visited. The big one for the day was Ta Prohm, made famous by the […]
9 July 2015
It was a wet morning. It looked like a big cloud system was hovering around and wasn’t about to pass quickly. I was proved right and it did hang around all day. So it was a chill and massage day until attending the Phare Cambodian Circus in the evening. This is an acrobatic show performed […]
8 July 2015
Our body clocks woke us up early so it wasn’t a big deal to leave at 0550 for sunrise around 0545. According to an newspaper article I read, Angkor Wat’s west gate is ridiculously overcrowded with people waiting for the sunrise so I took their advice to go to the east gate instead. Instead of […]
7 July 2015
Leaving Kuala Lumpur We walked from the Tune Hotel to the check-in area at KLIA2 and did our bagdrop 1.5h prior to departure. Going through security, they were really slack with LAGs and metallic objects but we realised later that there was a stringent check-point near the gates. I later understood it to be a […]
6 July 2015
Oh no! Another bad night sleep. That is just so rare for me! The ventilation was too warm for the both of us despite turning it down to the lowest level. After a light breakfast of muesli, we headed to the airport by train. Bag-drop was swift but immigration and security involved countless zigzags. We […]