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27th nov 16 Visited khlong lat mayom floating market and it was glorious, so much food!! Obviously couldnt eat most of it :( almost got scammed into visiting another floating market n got quoted an exorbitant price so we refused. Later on, got scammed by lady selling claypot glass noodles with prawns. She quoted me 50 baht when i asked initially, but later on when i paid she charged me 150 baht and acted blur when i got upset. Argh.
26th nov 2016 - touched down in bangkok! Staying at LiT bangkok hotel, pretty nice n clean place. Our flight got delayed so reached the hotel abt an hour later than expected. Couldnt go to the JJ green vintage night market :(
The boy is very sick and is basically a big baby. After 30 mins of uneventful walking to once upon a time and finding their kitchen closed, we ended the night with a big bowl of beef soup at the random street stall.
Costa victoria nov 2015 - disembarkation onto penang! Visited 2 buddhist temples just across the road to one another - one burmese one and one thai one, both were beautiful.
Costa victoria nov 2015 - disembarkation onto phuket! Love thailand 😍
Costa victoria cruise - Nov 7 to 11th 2015 Housekeeping staff - great Restaurant staff - average to great Cruise facilities - bad (small pool, no movie cinema) Cruise management - lousy (chaos on embarkation, long waits on disembarking) Cruise entertainment - lousy to not bad (surreal comedy act was lousy - rather amateurish attempt; michael jackson impersonator was not bad, i liked the dances put up by the backup crew and their costumes) Food - average (would have rated it bad but my mum says im really picky so i upped the rating) In a nutshell, will not pick costa cruises ever again.
16th sept 2015. Last post for today. Later in the day the tour group had to pay obligatory visits to 2 places to shop, where if we bought things, our tour guides would be rewarded with a commission. This is almost a mandatory occurrence on guided tours, no matter which agency you go with, because that is how tour guides earn extra. The first was a place with their city’s specialised products, the 2nd was a ginseng ‘museum’. Both sucked, in the sense their products/prices were bleagh and they were out to suck your money. Complete waste of time as well.
Last item of the night was a 'russian song and dance’ which, if i am being honest, is the worst 'watch and dine’ event i have ever been to. To add salt to injury, this wasnt part of the tour, it is an additional thing the guide promoted to us. Meaning, we had to pay extra to watch this. Anyway why it is bad can be best summed up as such: 1) they refused to serve us water as we were late. We were late because our dear guide did not inform us of the show’s starting time and did not chase us to leave the ginseng place where he was hoping to earn as much commission as possible. 2) food was all room temperature, not warm or hot 3) bread tasted funny, only margarine was available, no butter. Salad was just sliced lettuce with a truckload of mayo and some cavier/roe-like bits. Not sure what i was eating there. 4) the performance was a joke. It was just very random segments of whatever, against 'music videos’ highlighting a specific country’s famous sights. There were moscow, paris, thailand, clown, china, pole dancing/james bond segments….. That is, of what i can remember. Dances were of very low level, except for the pole dancing segment which was plain yucky. There was also a stand up comedian, who kept demanding for claps despite not being very funny. They even had clappers for each person of the audience, i guess, in case they were too lazy to put their 2 hands together to clap. 5) there was even a random AUCTION at the performance. After the chinese segment, the guy impersonating zhou en lai (first prime minister of china) was revealed to be some master artist cum celebrity, so he wrote some calligraphy, and the emcee proceeded to try to sell that piece of calligraphy. I was surprised but what started at 100rmb ended at 2500rmb. Needless to say, it was bought by a fellow (rich) chinaman. Back to my point, an auction is irrelevant to entertainment and should be reserved for another event and venue. It just wasted our time.
All in all, a huge disappointment (even with really low expectations) and never again.
16th sept 2015. Russian village in harbin. COMPLETE waste of money. All the 'houses' there we could visit were just souvenir shops, sparsely stocked with things like bags, alcohol, russian brand chocolates, bread, all kinds of russian dolls...... Each house was poorly maintained (other than the sellable goods) and had very little historical value. Do not waste your time or money to come here.
16th Sept 2015 - Taiyang dao (太阳岛）or Sun island. This place is as commercial as you can imagine any place to be. Im sad that i have now contributed to the survival of this tourist island. They market it as a place with wildlife n nature (waterfall, deers, squirrels) but this is all artificial and man-made. The waterfall is man-made. The squirrels were artificially domesticated here, i assume that means catching them in the wild and relocating them here. The tour guide even said in the past there were 2000 of them, but now there r only 200 left. Where did the rest go?????
St. Sofia cathedral, bridge to russia, stalin park
Dodgy looking hotel. The lights are dim and the decor looks like it came from the early 90’s. Really well maintained though. And service is not too bad. Quite responsive!
Update: there's no hot water in the shower!! And instead of red and blue indicators on the left and right, they have blue and yellow respectively instead. Uh. turns out the blue is hot and yellow is cold. What?
Sunrise on flight, and first lunch! In 哈尔滨，food here is apparently known for being salty, sticky and darker. according to the tour guide, this place isnt known for their food; it’s not one of the 8 food heavens in china. Salty and darker food is for people to eat less dishes with more rice (due to them being poor and not able to afford as many dishes, so they add salt or dark sauce to make them tastier), sticky is due to addition of corn flour, to enable food to retain its heat better, especially in cold weather.
China here i come!!!! Guided tours may not be hip, but it takes so much burden off the traveller. And hence, makes the holiday quite a luxury. I shall go forth, and be a pure tourist! :D *brain proceeds to switch off*
Weekend at Cebu - 22nd to 25th May 2015
It’s been a long while since a weekend getaway! Objective of this trip is just to nuah, calm the nerves, get away from an urban jungle. We did just that.
Day 1
We landed in the early afternoon, and headed straight for the hotel in cab. We basically cabbed everywhere we went because it was pretty cheap, and i guess most convenient. We either cabbed or took the hotel car (which was essentially, a more atas cab) because you can wait for a pretty long while for a taxi to come by our resort. First stop, lunch! we were hungry and I was parched (hence the welcome drink (see below picture) was extremely delightful). We went to Zubuchon, one of the more famous restaurant chains in Cebu. It is popular for it’s lechon, which is roasted pig. The fried rice was delicious, which had pork fat among its other ingredients, which probably explains its slightly salty and fragrant taste. The drinks and other dishes were good too, but dessert was rather below par. We ordered the dessert platter and nothing was memorable.
After that, since we were already in the city, we went for some sights. Fort San pedro, which was a military structure, and served as the nucleus of the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines (taken from wikipedia). After that went tried finding Basilica del Santo nino church, the oldest Roman Catholic church in philippines but it was having mass, so no entry for us wearing shorts and sleeveless tops :( Magellan’s cross, which was nearby, was also undergoing some restoration works.
We got all hot and sweaty (very humid weather) walking around and decided to retreat back to the resort early. No real dinner as we had a very late and heavy lunch.
Welcome drink at Crimson beach resort & spa - cucumber lemongrass 👌
Sunday 14th Dec - day will be spent lounging around and possibly gymming! Enjoying our hotel, basically
Cont of 13th dec - other than taj mahal we also visited the india gate and parliament house!! Kudos to the boss for taking so many nice photos of us! We ended the day with a sumptuous room service dinner and family friendly card games :D