A nice holiday in Taiwan

Thanks god our Taiwan trip was scheduled after PAMA Typhoon ~ The trip was enjoyable and well executed as our plan despite the bad weather announced earlier…It’s worth my effort to do so much research and planning for the itinerary~~ clap hands*

Air ticket was purchased from Jestar at Sgd304/pax and our total expenses of the trip is about Sgd1000 each inclusive accomodation,meals,transportation,shopping, souvenirs and entrance fees.(It’s worth!!)

We spent 11days 10 night to cover Taichung, Kaoshiung, Kenting & Taipei(Yilan was the only one we omitted in this trip due to the flood). Our main activities in this trip were eat eat eat, shop shop shop and shoot shoot shoot.

It was really a nice holiday for me~ Alot of nice things about this trip~

It was the beginning of Autumn season there, thus the weather was quite cooling, about 23-24 degree in Taipei and 28-30 in kaoshiung. Slightly hot in south part but still better than Singapore.

Most of the places we has visited were nice, special and memorable. Places that i like the most are Feng Jia Night market, Ximending, Shilin night market, 九分老街 and 淡水老街.

Most of the taiwanese there were nice and polite except a small part of rude people. The way they talk (nomatter guy or gals) are very soft and gentle. Pretty girls are everywhere~

The food there was super nice!!!! Those are really unforgetable like 豪大大雞排 , 大腸包小腸 , 生煎包 , 檸檬愛玉 冰, 青蛙下蛋 , 珍珠奶茶 , 臭豆腐, 台灣香腸, 阿宗面線, 手卷冰其淋, 官材板,  豬血糕, 手抓餅etc. Even their 便當 and 杯面also delicious. We love to buy drinks from the 便利店 where you able to find variety of nice drinks like yuan yang milk tea, coffee, green tea, honey tea and juices.

And never forget about the hot spring at xin beitou~~ It was indeed a nice experience to sink urself naked under 43 degree hot water!!! shiok~~

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What you can see at Ho Chih Min City

可有想过，在这二十世纪的新时代里竟还存在着八十年代的景物？

这一景一幕勾起了许许多多当年的回忆。。。

1）陈旧的建筑物，熙来攘往街道

Ho Chi Minh City Street

2）剪不断理还乱的电线

So complicated!!!??? This is not the worst one.

3）喧闹、纷乱的菜市场

Chinatown market

4）简陋的加油站

Petrol Station

5）古老的巴士总站

Bus Station

6）箱子式的收费站

Toll counter - ERP in singapore? haha..

7）公开式的解放站

Toilet!!?? can you imagine if this kind of Public toilet exist in Singapore?　

8）屋子水上游

Riverside Village

9）天线高高在上

Can you notice the long antenna on the roof top???

这一趟越南之旅亲眼目睹了这一切，虽然没我想象中那么落后，却有种时光倒流二十年前的错觉，才体会到其实我们身在福中不知福！！！生活困苦，饱受饥饿，天灾人祸的百姓大有人在，我们还能的过着舒适，安稳的生活，享用前卫的科技，设施及交通。我们是否应该好好珍惜这一切！！？？

Things

雨后春笋 – Bamboo shoots after a Spring Rain

心中一直期待着美丽的星期天，好让我有个机会投入大自然怀抱，享受下幽静的环境和清新的空气。可是前晚下了一场小雨，路上湿滑，天也一直很阴沉。担心要是天气一直不得好转，这次动物园之行就有很大的遗憾了。

中午时分，果然下了一场连绵细雨， 扫了大家的兴。但仍然继续在细雨中步行着，就是不想错过那精彩的节目表演。好在天公作美，虽然当天的天气的确一直不太好，小雨停后，天气晴了，那雨后即景的确足以让人生完整，那种静谧的美，值得回味许久，也让我再次重温这好久不见的动物园之旅。

天气晴了……就在天气转晴的那一刻，及时在温暖的阳光普照下捕捉了这一目美丽的画面….

雨后春笋，这句成语足以贴切地形容这一幕。

A Relaxing Trip at Bintan

We arrived at Bintan Island at about 11.40am which was 10.40am Indonesia time. Proceed to the immigration counter at ferry terminal and waited for the resort taxi at arrival hall. There are few counters for other resorts, travel information counters and some souvenir shops at the arrival hall too.

The journey to resort from ferry terminal is about 10 min drive. Once we arrived at the resort- Banyan Tree, we were served with the welcome drinks and towels at the lobby while waiting for the receptionist to check in our villa.

Ginger & Lime is the self-made drinks served by the resort

After checking in at the lobby, they helped us to carry our luggage and sent us to our villa by buggy.

Villa on the Rocks. This villa is build on the rocks nearby the sea where we able to hear the sound of waves breaking on the rocks.

The first thing attracted me in this room is the design of the bed.

My favourite corner - A good place to laze and watch TV

Jacuzzi!! Very shiok when u soak yourself in the warm water with the massage at your whole body at night!!

After putting down our luggage, we quickly snapped some photos of the villa and headed to the nearest restaurant for lunch which is Tree top restaurant. Variety of food choices are given in this restaurant which includes local foods and western foods. From the restaurant, we could see a very nice swimming pool, gallery shop and Spa available nearby the restaurant.

Nasi Goreng!! Yummy^_^

One Rock-edge swimming pool

Beside that, there is a very nice view swimming pool beside the beach. Alot of angmoh enjoying their sun bath nearby the swimming pool and some of them taking photos along the beach.

Beach view swimming pool

Along the way we would see alot of different type of villa in the resort

People are taking photos on the bridge

Champagne is complimentary drink for the breakfast

This is where we had our breakfast!! I like this place!!

View from Saffon restaurant - where we had lunch on second day

Private room for massage

I would say that it was indeed a nice place to relax your mind and have a short getaway from the fast paced city life. We had a great time in this little island for 3D2N. Basically, there is nothing much we can do over there, but we enjoyed the natural of the island and the comfy design of the resort.  People there are very nice and polite. You will feel especially warm when you  see people putting a smile on their face and greet you politely wherever you go.

Bintan!! Here i come!!!

I am going to Bintan by tomorrow!! Yes!! Bintan island!! It is my first trip to BINTAN…. and I practically know nothing about this little island. Feel so excited about the trip as I will be going for a simple and luxury short trip in a nearby island.

Alot of people do not know where is Bintan (including me) and what is the different of Bintan and Batam? After doing some research, now i have a rough idea about this two places. Basically Bintan and Batam are belong to Indonesia but located at different island. You may see from the map here. There is a regular ferry service operated by Bintan resort Ferries that plies between Singapore, Bintan and Batam. Though their national language is Bahasa Indonesia, they also can speak simple english.  The main currency used in Indonesia is Rupiah (Rp), however Singapore Dollar(S$) is widely accepted at the resorts. Apart from that, Indonesia time is one hour behind Singapore time.

Bintan is accessible via Ferry from Singapore’s Tanah Merah Ferry Terminal (TMFT) to Bandar Bentan Telani Ferry Terminal in Bintan. The journey of ferry is about 55 minutes.

Batam is nearer to Singapore, is about 20km away  and it takes about 20 minutes from Singapore to reach Nongsapura ferry terminal. Besides that, there are domestic flight connections all over Indonesia. You also can see Batam from the west coast of Bintan. Special chartered boat arrangement can be made between Bintan and Batam as well.