http://travel-cities.com Travel to understand the world Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:26:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 http://travel-cities.com/2009/10/taiwan-travel-i/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/10/taiwan-travel-i/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:56:47 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1741 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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2009/10/taiwan-travel-i/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/10/taiwan-travel-ii/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/10/taiwan-travel-ii/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:49:30 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1778 (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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2009/10/taiwan-travel-ii/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/07/phuket-travel/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/07/phuket-travel/#comments Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:16:49 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1532 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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2009/07/phuket-travel/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/hanoi-travel-i/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/hanoi-travel-i/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 03:10:08 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1526 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). [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/hanoi-travel-i/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/hanoi-travel-north-vietnam/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/hanoi-travel-north-vietnam/#comments Sat, 30 May 2009 02:52:05 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1520 (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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/hanoi-travel-north-vietnam/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/bali-travel/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/bali-travel/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 17:32:38 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1256 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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2009/05/bali-travel/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/02/batam-island-travel/ http://travel-cities.com/2009/02/batam-island-travel/#comments Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:37:19 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1185 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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2009/02/batam-island-travel/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/bangkok-ayuthaya-travel-part-i/ http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/bangkok-ayuthaya-travel-part-i/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:20:30 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1089 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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/bangkok-ayuthaya-travel-part-i/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/bangkok-ayuthaya-travel-part-ii/ http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/bangkok-ayuthaya-travel-part-ii/#comments Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:16:12 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=1092   [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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/bangkok-ayuthaya-travel-part-ii/feed/ http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/chiangmai-chiang-rai-the-golden-triangle-travel-part-i/ http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/chiangmai-chiang-rai-the-golden-triangle-travel-part-i/#comments Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:45:11 +0000 admin http://travel-cities.com/?p=856 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 [...]]]> http://travel-cities.com/2008/12/chiangmai-chiang-rai-the-golden-triangle-travel-part-i/feed/