Entries Categorized as 'When I Do Travel'
August 28, 2010
From our house in Lumut, the beach is less than 5 mins drive away.
Over in Bandar Seri Begawan, the nearest beach is at the Taman Rekreasi Hutan Berakas (Berakas Forest Recreational Park) - which is still around 15 mins drive away.
But despite being this “near”, it was only recently that we brought the kids to […]
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May 1, 2010
Even though it is only across the border - 2 hours drive from my home, we very rarely visit Miri (Sarawak).
I know folks who will not miss a weekend without visiting this place or at least once a month - saying how much cheaper are things, how much more variety than what’s available in Brunei […]
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March 19, 2010
On our trip to Singapore last year, we stayed at a charming hotel called the “South East Asia Hotel” in Bugis.
In my regular online booking site, it was in the right price range and was highly recommended. For this particular hotel, there were 49 mostly positive reviews and it was the 75th most popular hotel […]
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July 5, 2009
If you plan to visit the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah in Jakarta, you would be glad to know that this huge 165 ha park offered motorcycles, bicycles and tandem bicycles for hire.
We only discovered about this as we came down from the skylift (cable cars) which we took to go across the big lake that […]
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July 3, 2009
For our first time visit to Jakarta last month, my husband and I agreed on two thing.
He wants to see at least one landmark and I wanted to visit the Taman Mini Indonesia Indah.
So on our first morning in Jakarta - which happened to be a Friday - we took a taxi from the Sari […]
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