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South africa Day 3 (28 Sep 09) – An adventure at Kruger National Park.
warning. super long entry ahead! we started our day 3 adventure journeying out to world-renowned kruger national park. it sprawls across 20,000 sq km of hot, flattish lowveld terrain in the far northeast of south africa and ranks among the finest game sanctuaries in the world, with all roads, rest camps and other man-made features accounting for only 2% of the park’s area. the rest is pure wildnerness and no other sanctuary in Africa can match the numbers and variety of life forms. its home to nearly 150 kinds of mammals (including the Big 5), more than 500 bird species, 112 reptile types, 49 types of fishes and 34 amphibian…
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[27 sep 09] day 2 in south africa
after a good night sleep (since it was boredom being ‘locked’ within the hotel premises), we had breakfast! it was simple but i love all the colours and the watermelons were almost pink in shade. it is amazing that i actually can wolf down my breakfast at 6.30am in the morning. we checked out right after the breakfast and got picked up by our guide, Eugene Basson for our journey for the next 4 days. the unique bit about this south africa tour is that it is semi-guided. some days we had the guide, other days we didn’t. For the whole safari adventure, he stuck with us for 4 days…
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about south africa.
if there is one thing that i really sucked at, i think it has to be doing travelogues of the places that i have been to. especially the longer trips. i didn’t complete my honeymoon entries and it got stuck at rome, the day i went to the vatican. and there was the melbourne trip.. which was done halfway as well.. and the south africa ones, which concluded to only ONE entry post trip. and not to mention the melacca trip, which i have already LOST all pictures of because my darn computer crashed when i was doing backup and everything was gone. =X der says because i travelled too…
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the upcoming vacation.
the trip to the states is confirmed! in a month’s time (10 Aug), i’ll be jetting off to orlando in florida and seattle in washington. disneyworld & universal studios in orlando, here i come again! actually, the ONLY reason why i am so excited to head back there is because of the harry potter theme park in universal (see fan website). the muggle me just can’t wait to step into the hogwarts castle and drink butterbeer in the three broomsticks pub. here’s a video introduction on it that i saw from the fan website. i had wanted to head there for honeymoon last year but unfortunately, there was no tickets.…
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Day 3 in Bali.. Our Bali vacation –
It’s my 2nd attempt drafting this and I do hope my phone app doesn’t have any error and eat up my Bali vacation entry like the last time! We had out for lunch in the late afternoon after a short swim. That typically has been our routine for the days spent in Bali.. I was craving for some local food and the cafe (Brasserie & Lounge) that we had lunch the day before do serve them so we headed back there! My caramel mikshake and the standard cola for der. It was a bad mistake because I think I felt sick right after all that milk on a near empty…
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Life in Bali – Vacation location for Babymoon
This Bali vacation is considered one of the most unplanned trip I ever had. I mean, I was planning for a trip and I knew I had to get away before I couldn’t travel at all. It was also the boy’s birthday and I wanted to plan a surprise… But I guess planning surprises doesnt really work hand in hand with my work schedule. Ever since I got back from the honeymoon.. I have been smacked right into the flurry of activities at work.. Everyone started going on leave, clearing all their leaves before the year ends and it was especially bad, because my co had had the policy of…
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Europe Honeymoon – day 2 in Rome
Day 2 of our Europe honeymoon – We ventured out to get our Roma pass. This is a must if you are visiting the touristy places and travelling via the metro. It’s available at most newstands and it’s 25€. In return, you’ll get a Roma pass that is valid for 3 days (upon activation) that allows numerous trips on all public transport (in our case, metro rides), and gives you access to museums and archaeological sites. We visited many places with this and didn’t had to pay a single cent for entrance! Together with the package, there is an Internet access card that gives you information about shows and other…
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Our Rome Holiday – Honeymoon in Rome
It’s been a while… The last post on our rome holiday aka honeymoon has been a long while back. Since homecoming, work has been really busy and with my colleague being on leave for 2 weeks and with the boy leaving for aussieland for work, birthday parties to attend, weekend events for work.. And catching up with our parents over weekend dinners. I barely had the time to rest properly, let alone blog. These days, I hit the bed at 10+pm or before midnight if I can manage it because I’m just so drained and I think stress is also causing very bad migraines for me daily so I have…
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Useful Travel information on Istanbul..
here’s some useful travel information on Istanbul and because i didn’t really enjoy istanbul as much as i should since i fell sick, i am going to share the research that i did here for the trip, mostly for the benefit of kenties and whoever might be heading towards istanbul in the near future (though i think it’s not a common travel destination amongst the people i know and even kenties is going there because of work). nonetheless, here’s some of the places that i was planning to visit, in no order of preference. 1. hagia sophia (aya sofya). used to be an orthodox patriarchal basilica, then a mosque.. today…
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More about istanbul..
Am v sleepy right now because der & me played late night mahjong the whole night last night and this morning, i was up bright and early and somehow, the time just passed me by… Argh! Give me back my sunday!! Am so not ready to head back to work yet. There are just too many mosques in istanbul and there’s one at every other corner. Der wasnt keen to pop in so all we did was stand outside, look at the architecture and read about some of them from the signages and information boards available. Being sick, it didnt help that i was cranky and frustrated most of the…
