Japan Travel I
Japan Travel I
Japan: Introduction
Japan, located in East Asia, is an archipelago of over 6,500 islands. Among them, Honshu, Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku are the large ones. 70% of the country is mountainous and the highest mountain is Mt. Fuji with a height of 3,776m in the west of Tokyo. It is a Japan’s landscape icon.
The [...]
Japan Travel II
(continued from Japan I)
Day 4 Saturday 10 September 2011
After breakfast we left Okura Hotel in Hamamtsu at 8 a.m. Our next destination was the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park. While travelling on the busy Tomei Expressway, we saw the scenic country-sides.
Owakudani Valley
Two hours later, we reached a volcanic valley known as Owakudani Valley which is also known [...]
Singapore Heritage Trail I
Singapore Heritage Tarail I
On a Singapore Heritage Trail
In 2006, I paid a visit to Singapore, a tiny nation, to learn about her rich history and diverse cultures. It took me a few days to visit four heritage places which are rich in histories and cultures. The four places are Chinatown, Little India, Kampong Glam-Malay Village and Civic District. Located [...]
Singapore Heritage Trail II
(continued from Singapore Heritage Trail I)
Singapore Travel II
3. Malay Heritage
To learn about the Malay heritage, I visited two places, viz. Kampong Glam and Geylang Serai.
Kampong Glam
Located at the mouth of the Rochor River, Kampong Glam was originally a Malay fishing village. It is named after a tree by the Malays. Its scientific name is melaleuca [...]
Yunnan Travel I
Yunnan Travel I
Yunnan Attractions
Yunnan is a mountainous province in south China and an interesting region to visit. It is a place where visitors will be amazed by its numerous awesome landscapes, diverse cultures of over 20 ethnic minorities, well-preserved old towns and rich histories.
My wife and I had wanted to visit the province very [...]
Yunnan Travel II
(continued from Yunnan Travel I)
Yunnan II
Day 4 Wednesday, June 2011
The Landscape Hotel served two types of food: Chinese and Western. As we had been eating Chinese food the last few days in Yunnan, we took a western breakfast for a change at the hotel. Then we left and went to a Bai village.
Bai Village
In the [...]
Yunnan Travel III
(continued from Yunnan Travel II)
Day 6 Friday, June 2011
Travelling Back to Kunming City
At 8 in the morning, we travelled from Dali City back to Kunming City. After over four hours of sitting in the moving bus and rocking inside whenever it travelled on bad roads, we, finally, reached the city. We, immediately, went to a restaurant [...]
China Relatives and Ancestral Places III
(Continued from China Realtives and Ancestral Places II)
An Old Man on a Float
At 2 p.m. we left the island in the same old boat that it had brought us to the island in the morning. When the boat was going to leave the pier for the mainland we were shocked to see an old man, [...]
China Relatives and Ancestral Places I
China Relatives and Ancestral Places I
A Visit to My Parents’ Relatives and Ancestral Places in China
After a Shanghai trip in China in June 2010, a few months ago, I thought it was time for my siblings and I to visit my parents’ relatives and ancestral places in Fujian Province in China.
A month before I made [...]
China Relatives and Ancestral Places II
(Continued from China Relatives and Ancestral Places I)
Day 3 Sunday 5 September 2010
After visiting all my relatives for the past two days, we decided to do some shopping and visit some
Brother Tan Yun’s new grand house
places of interest for the rest of our vacation.
In the morning we checked out of the hotel because Brother Tan [...]