Taiwan Travel I
Taiwan Travel
Location of Taiwan
Taiwan is located 120 km off the southeast coast of Mainland China. It is 394 km long and 144 km wide with an area of 35,980 sq. km. Comparatively, Taiwan’s area is about 300 times smaller than that of Mainland China. It has the shape of a sweet potato. Two thirds of the [...]
Taiwan Travel II
(Continued from Taiwan Travel I)
Day 3 : 24 August 2009
Checheng, Nantou County
Checheng is a small quiet village located in a mountainous area of Shueili in Nantou County of Central Taiwan. It has gone through a few times of prosperity and hardship during the last 100 years.
In 1913, Checheng was thriving when a railway line for [...]
Phuket Travel
Pkuket Travel
Phuket
Phuket is located off the coast of southern Thailand. It has a large island that is known as Phuket Island and 39 small islands in the Andaman Sea. Its total area is about 570 sq. km. which is about the same area of Singapore. The main island, Phuket Island, is 50 km long and 20 [...]
Hanoi Travel I
Hanoi Travel
Hanoi
Hanoi is in the north of Vietnam. Located on the west bank of a long river, Red River (1,200 km), it has over 1000 years of history.
Red River Delta
The Red River originates from the highlands in Yunan Province and flows south-east. Midway, it is joined by two tributaries, Clear River (Lo River) and Black River (Da River). [...]
Hanoi Travel II
(continue from Hanoi Travel I)
Day 3
17 March 2009
Hoa Lo
On this day, we decided to visit two places of interest, viz. H0a Lo and Tam Coc. A van came to hour hotel in the morning and picked us up. It brought us to Hoa Lo first. It is about 110 km south of
Hanoi. After two hours of [...]
Bali Travel
Bali Travel
After a trip to Batam Island in September 2008, two months later we went to another Indonesian island known as Bali.
Located a short distance east of Java, Bali is 153 km long and 112 km wide and has an area of about 5,632 sq. km. It has a few active volcanoes in the east [...]
Batam Island Travel
Batam Island Travel
Batam Island is one of the 3,000 Riau Archipelago islands in Indonesia. It has an area of 410 sq. km. which is slightly over half the size of Singapore. It is a land of low hills without natural resources. It was a quiet island until the 1970’s during which many Singaporean investors shifted [...]
Bangkok, Ayuthaya Travel (Part I)
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Bangkok, Ayuthaya Travel (Part I)
History of Bangkok
Bangkok began as a small village and later a trading centre. It developed rapidly when King Thaksin made it the new capital of Thailand in 1767. The old one, Ayutthaya, which is 80 km north of Bangkok, was captured by the Burmese soldiers in 1767.
People and Attractions
Bangkok [...]
Bangkok , Ayuthaya Travel (Part II)
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[continued from Bangkok , Ayuthaya Travel (Part I)]
Bangkok , Ayuthaya Travel (Part II)
Day 3 : Thursday, 6 December 2007
On the morning of 6 December 2007, we hired a “tuk-tuk” to bring my wife and I round the city for sightseeing. A young Thai man named See was our “tuk-tuk” driver and our tour-guide too. The first [...]
Chiangmai, Chiang Rai, The Golden Triangle Travel (Part I)
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Chiang Mai Travel
Thailand (Free Land) is dubbed “The Land of 65 Million Smiles”. It is well-known for its many tourist spots. And Chiang Mai is one of them.
Location of Chiang Mai Chiang Mai is in North Thailand and is about 750 km north of Bangkok. It is over 310
metres above sea-level and located in a [...]