Lijiang Yunnan

24 Nov 2009 to 01 Dec 2009

First holiday trip to China, quite a bit of cultural shock... Pushing & shoving at domestic airport to check-in, any thing goes during the short flight etc...

Welcome to China !!


Above : At the airport

Below : First night in Lijiang, pre-booked & damn expensive for their standard..





Below : Lijiang town

Malacca & KL

Did a 2D1N drive trip to Malacca & KL in Oct 2009.
It was a eat, eat & makan trip ...

Cebu 17 Sep to 22 Seo 09

Day 1 Mactan Island, Shangri-la




Day 2 Cebu City, Fuenta Pension House



One of my least favourite cities in the world, just feel uneasy being there ...

Day 3 Bohol Island

Took a 3hr ferry to Bohol Island, just to get out of Cebu City ...

Rafflesia

Saw them on the way to Mt. Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu 05 Sept to 08 Sept 09

The 3 of us went to KK during the Sept school holidays and stayed at Shangri-la Rasa Ria this time round.
Beautiful resort but out of the way, therefore we stayed at the resort & ate at the resort most of the time.
Luckily I took a package with dinner credit coz the dining options at the resort was not fantastic and very expensive.



















There is a Nature Reserve within the resort where you can see Orang Utans & other animals.
Nikki signed up to a the Ranger of the day ...

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Report On Taipei

Great trip, plenty of walking, not enough of eating

First up, report on the hotel, The Tango Nanshi
Some pictures, the room, study desk and the cool bathroom.
Rain shower, hotspring jacuzzi tub and japanese style toilet & a large LCD TV ...






There was an earthquake early on Monday morning at about 8am while I was still sleeping.
Bed was shaking badly, hangers rattling in the closet and I thought there was an animal in the room creating all the commotion ...