Thailand 8D7N Trip: Day 1 Kuala Lumpur - Krabi (Ibis Style Ao Nang Hotel, Krabi Night Market)

Finally, I am free to write down my 8D7N Krabi-Bangkok Trip in details. =D The whole trip cost me RM3000, which includes flight (3 flights), 7 nights accommodation, tour, food and shopping (to be honest, I bought a lot of clothes).

Let's start with Day 1. I took an afternoon flight from KLIA2 to Krabi. This is the first time I got on an AirAsia flight with LINE design. LINE~~ However, the flight was like roller coaster ride. My friend and I felt so nauseous and worried throughout the flight. Thank god we landed safely at Krabi. 

Cute design!

Of course we won't miss the chance to take a wefie in the cute cabin.

Upon arrival at airport, we booked a cab to our hotel, which cost us THB600 per cab. We chose cab over public bus as they cost the same to us after dividing. For bus, it will cost THB150 per person. So, it is more comfortable for us to get the cab instead. Our cab driver - Somchai is a very friendly gentleman. He welcomed us to Krabi and suggested us some things to do in Krabi. So nice of him! We also booked our day trip to Phi Phi Island (THB1000) and Emerald Pool (THB900) at the airport too. Settled everything at once before we start to enjoy. =)

About 45 minutes ride, we arrived at our hotel -- Ibis Style Ao Nang. I booked it via Agoda with the price of RM234/pax for 3 nights stay. Quite worthy. The room size is rather small but environment is very comfortable. 

Here's the room with twin bed. The room size is just nice to fit 2 person and there is some space for packing. Toilet is clean and nice too. 

Pool view + Mountain view from the balcony. Amazing view.

After washing up, we went out to hunt for some food. 

Street view outside of our hotel.

Saw a food stall selling coconut ice cream by the roadside. YEAH! It's coconut ice cream! 

Bought it for THB30, cheapest and most delicious coconut ice cream I've bought throughout the trip.

Let's take a food portrait!

And typical tourist photo with food. XD

Then, we went to an Indian/Thai fusion restaurant for light meal. We ordered 2 dishes to be shared among 4 of us -- Green Curry with Chicken and also Pineapple Fried Rice.

Green-est ever green curry I've ever tried. But the taste is okay. Just too oily and too green >.<

The Pineapple Fried Rice. 

Happy Face while waiting for our food to be served. The restaurant took 30 minutes to serve the food. Not gonna recommend this place. 

After that, we went to family mart to look for Lays with smiley face. It is the trend so we want to have a photo with it too!

It fits my face quite well. Hehe....

After hunting for food, we went back to Ibis Style Hotel to join the Night Market Tour at 6pm. We paid THB200 per pax for this night market tour for return trip of the van. I think the price is quite okay as the journey was quite long, around 20-30 minutes drive. 

Here we are at Krabi Weekend Night Market! As the name mentioned, this night market is only open over the weekend, mainly saying Friday, Saturday and Sunday night. So don't miss out your chance to visit if you are here for the weekend. There are a lot of food and souvenirs to look here!

We arrived around 6.30pm and it is still bright. But there are a lot of people walking around already. 

Wefie before exploring the night market! Let's go!

First stall that I found interesting is this pancake stall! The small pancake has different fillings and if you have trouble deciding, you can choose 7 pieces with mixed flavour for THB20. And.... I bought mixed flavour to have a try of all. Personally, I like the kaya one as it tastes like kaya ball. XD 

Cambodia: Short Getaway to Siam Reap Part 8 (Sunset at Angkor Wat and Road 60)

Day 3 in Siam Reap

After rushing down from The River of a Thousand Lingas, we reached Angkor Wat just on time for sunset. Tour guide knew that it would be jammed at the main entrance and hence he brought us to the other entrance, which is located at the back of Angkor Wat. Surprisingly, the view here is as nice as main entrance. There's a lake right before the entrance and there are some buildings at the back too.

With the building at the back of Angkor Wat. I guessed it is some sort of temple, too? 

Angkor Wat with the Sunset

Me with the sunset. ^_^

About 10 minutes walk, we reached the walkway that we walked on the first day. 

There are really a lot of people waiting for sunset view.

One of my favourite photos at Angkor Wat. 

Ignore my sweaty look. Love the reflection of Angkor Wat.

The Reflection

"Who.... is that girl I see....." Time for a song.. XD

Another photo before leaving Angkor Wat. 

They close at 6pm and we were chased out. XD

Look at my cute photoboom! =D

Oh! Not to forget, there will be a lot of children trying to sell souvenirs to you. 

It is a bit hard to reject kids and the price that they offered are quite reasonable. So, this is me busy buying souvenir from the cute kid. 

To me, sunset at Angkor Wat is something not to be missed if you happened to visit Siam Reap, Cambodia. It is much nicer than sunrise because you can see the reflection of Angkor Wat clearly. I enjoyed my visit here. =D

And hence this ends our temple tour. Before getting back to our villa, we requested the tour guide to bring us to the local night market -- Road 60, trying our luck to find some nice local food and tarantula. We got some barbeque chicken and fish as dinner at the market. The night market is huge but dark. Here, you can see how Cambodian people hang out. They have a really simple life. Sitting by the roadside and enjoy their dinner could be their night out. Not like us, cafe hopping, nice restaurant, etc..... Something to reflect on.

5D4N Ho Chi Minh Travel Itinerary 2015

Here's to share with you, my 5D4N Itinerary for those who are interested to travel to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, wondering what to see how much fund to prepare for the trip. I hope this post would give you some idea. 

To be honest, my 5D4N in Ho Chi Minh City does not cover the city thoroughly (just explored a bit of District 1 and Mui Ne). So if you are a hardworking traveler or explorer, you will definitely be able to explore more places as this trip we spent a lot of time lazing in Cafes and guesthouse. XD

Day 1: Alor Setar -->  Kuala Lumpur (KLIA2) -->  Ho Chi Minh City (SAIGON)

We took a morning flight from Alor Setar to KLIA2 and then proceeded with a noon flight (12pm) to Ho Chi Minh (also known as Saigon). We went HCM in a group of 6 girls. I like this number of people as even number is easier for sharing and our number is just nice to fit into a big taxi. It is my first time traveling with only girls, normally I'll have one or two guys in my travel group. Hmm... A different experience. 

It took us 2 hours to fly to Saigon. So we reached Saigon around 1pm (local time is 1 hour later than Malaysia). Prior leaving the airport, each of us got a SIM card with data. Then, we took a local bus to Ben Thanh Market, and walked to Sinh Tourist to get our bus tickets and tour checked in. 

Street view in front of Sinh Tourist. Motorcycles are everywhere!

Walked around District 1 while waiting for our bus to Mui Ne (at 8pm).

Around 7.30pm, we walked back to Sinh Tourist to prepare for our bus trip to Mui Ne. We booked a sleeping bus and hence we cleaned up at the office before we go on board. 

Day 2: HCM --> Mui Ne 

Bus trip to Mui Ne took us 5 hours and we reached there around 1.30am. Checked in at Diem Lien Guesthouse and then we rested for 3 hours before we go for the sunrise tour at Sand Dunes.

White Sand Dunes @ 5.30am

Red Sand Dunes

Mui Ne Fishing Village

Long waited ---- Fairy Stream

Cham Tower, Phan Thiet 

After touring around Mui Ne and Phan Thiet, we went back to our guesthouse to rest for a while. At 11pm, we checked out from the guesthouse. Then, we waited at the Sinh Tourist office and took another sleeping bus back to Ho Chi Minh at 1am. 

Day 3: Mui Ne --> Ho Chi Minh City --> Mekong River Day Tour --> Ben Thanh Market

Reached back HCM city around 5.30am. We have a day tour to Mekong River at 8am and hence we decided to rest before joining the tour. The Sinh Tourist office opens at 6.30am and hence we had to rest at Family Mart. 

Mekong River

Hand-rowing boat. New experience and really thankful to the 2 men who row our boat.
Thanks for the ride. =) 

Ben Thanh Market

I miss Australia

This is a pre-celebration post for my 4 monthsary at work! #throwbackpostaboutmylifeinmelbourne.

Spent almost 4 months working in Kedah and I learnt to appreciate the time I get to enjoy life. Awww..... I miss my life in Melbourne, when the only thing I have to worry is "WHERE TO TRAVEL NEXT".

I miss Australia. I miss traveling. I miss Australia. Let me tell you why.

1) When I was in Melbourne, planning trip is my routine work. Where should I fly next. If price seems alright, I'll just book the flight and go. I miss my flying marathon (Melbourne - Gold Coast - Melbourne - Tasmania - Melbourne - Sydney - Melbourne - Malaysia)

2) In Melbourne, I was surrounded by good coffee places, and also good chocolate place too! A cuppa Max Brenner Hot Chocolate in a cold winter night. Body totally melted away with the awesomeness of the chocolate. 

3) How to resist when the famous gelato shop is just behind your house? Il Dolce Freddo @ Lygon Street is just few steps away from my rented place. Durian + Ferrero Rocher Gelato ==> Super awesome combo! When can I have that again? 

4) There are nice macaroons and gigantic one too! 

5) Shopping time over the weekend with the roommate. We explore different shopping places and of course we will not forget to enjoy the scenery. I miss the time when I can wear as over-dressed as I want, without worrying that people will comment on my attire. 

6) I miss the time where I have energy to go here and there everyday. Missing the time I spent at Mt Dandenong with my group of friends. Blue Sky, Green Grass, Great People. 

7) Being a tourist, I challenged my fear (animalphobia) a lot. I fed horse. I fed wallaby. Have to smile at the camera with tachycardia. =P

8) Everyone gets so excited about tulip festival, and of course we won't miss the chance to visit. Chilly weather with a little sunshine. What a great weather. =) Oh, and not to forget there's a wine tasting session at the carnival. Wine in the afternoon =D

9) There's chance to be a hipster in Melbourne too! Street art back in Melbourne is different from Malaysia. Melbourne's street art is more hippy and Malaysia's is more ka-wa-i. XD

10) Theme park is just too fun and exciting! (@ Gold Coast)

11) Road trip was fun back in Tasmania. We just stopped by a random beach and had fun. No one else on the beach, except us. As I remember, the beach was nice, hence I decided to leave my name on it. XD

12) Sleeping late and wake up super early just to make sure we get to visit most places as planned. (Road Trip @ Tasmania)

Taiping-Penang One-day Food Trip

#throwback

HOW TO EAT 5 HEAVY MEALS IN A DAY??? 

Let me show you with my Taiping (breakfast) & Penang (6 other meals) Day Trip!!
** Specially thanks to my partner in "crime" -- Mr Jiaming.

1st Meal: Breakfast @ Taiping (Cashier Market/Larut Matang Food Court)

Taiping version Chee Cheong Fun (RM2.70 if I'm not wrong)

Fishball Fried Kuey Teow (So far I can only find this dish in Taiping) (RM3.80)

Before we had our 2nd meal, we went to hunt for some street arts as Mr JM said he hasn't seen any of them. As a very good "tour guide", of course I have to search street arts again, under the hot sun. =D (Not complaining, at all)

You can read about my Penang Street Arts post too! --> Click here for street art!

2nd meal: Teochew Cendol @ Lebuh Keng Kwee (More descriptions can be found in my previous post -- click here)

As busy as usual. We went on a Saturday and hence, crowds are expected. 

Ahhh! Best dessert on a hot & sunny day!

Only selfie in Penang -- Too busy eating. Mr JM and me with our cendols.

3rd meal: Hot Bowl Nyonya Delight (White Curry Noodles)

Heard about this white curry noodles for some time and finally I try it myself! Apparently they have moved to the street beside of their original stall. It is no longer at Abu Siti Lane, but Jalan Rangoon.

We reached there around 3pm and we were very very lucky. We ordered the last bowl of white curry mee. A table of customers beside us, who came earlier, ordered and the waiter told them they already ran out of stock. Who knows we got one bowl, even we reached later. LUCKY! And thankful. 

White Curry Mee!