Category Archives: Travel

Club Med in Guilin

I wonder if I’ll be free to visit that new Club Med in Guilin by then…


Photo Source: www.luxuo.com

Press Release:
A SECOND CLUB MED RESORT IN CHINA

Club Med announces the opening of a Club Med Resort in Guilin

 

Singapore, 1 December 2011 – Club Med has signed an agreement with Guilin Yuzi Paradise that calls for the pre-opening of a second Club Med Resort in China in Guilin, Guangxi Province, in August 2012.

Currently a Relais & Châteaux site, this future premium resort, catering in particular to families, will open in the summer of 2012. In 2013, it will be fully aligned with Club Med standards and Club Med will operate and market the Resort through a ten-year management contract with site owner Guilin Yuzi Paradise.

Guilin attracted more than 20 million Chinese tourists and 1.4 million international visitors in 2010. Located in Guangxi province in southern China, Guilin is one of the country’s prime tourist destinations, renowned for its unique scenery. Guilin is also ideally situated for easy access. The city’s international airport is 45 minutes from the Club Med Resort and an hour’s flight from Hong Kong and Guangzhou.

In line with Club Med’s goal of becoming a leading provider of luxury, all-inclusive vacations for Chinese customers, three other resort projects at seaside or cultural destinations have already been identified or are in the planning stage.

Club Med has decided to strengthen its presence in upscale resorts in China by opening five resorts between now and 2015. The objective for 2015 is to attract 5% to 10% of China’s potential 4 and 5-star resort customers. On the basis of this outlook, Club Med could attract 200,000 Chinese clients in 2015 and China could become Club Med’s second largest market worldwide in terms of client numbers.

 

Cheers,
Amanda

Thailand – Roadside stalls

🙂 was looking through the photos taken at Thailand and I thought I should draw your attention to some of the goodies sold at the Roadside stalls.

I think its always scary to eat from roadsides stalls when you are overseas, especially countries that are not very particular about hygiene? I dont know whats a better word to use instead of hygiene… You know what I mean?

Like you see flies flying around ever so often, and stalls selling food that are uncovered, free for dust *especially if its by the road side…

kk, anyway~
These series of roadside food are not so bad, cos for one they are deep fried *oh my… the oil….

😀

just enjoy the pictures la huh~
*a… do we consider their river as road? 😀

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Maeklong Railway Station

One of the most Unbelievable sight I saw was at the Maeklong Railway Station, wondering why? 😀

Check out the video:

Like SERIOUSLY! O_O
The train just pass above the food stuff…………………………………………….
and right when the train is done, they shift back the canopy and shelters, business as usual. O_O

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Thailand Monks

Went by to Thailand with @xysg and @tangenghui on the 13th – 16th July 2011.
Gonna bring you a series of photos from there in the upcoming entries. 🙂

In this entry, let’s take a look at the photos taken in the morning, of the Monks.

Read from a website, about their daily routine:

There are over 29,000 temples in Thailand and the daily routine of the monks in all of them is pretty much the same…

4.00 am – The monks wake up and meditate for one hour, followed by one hour of chanting.
6.00 am – The monks walk barefoot around the neighbourhood while the local people make merit by offering them food.
8.00 am – Returning to the temple, the monks sit together to eat breakfast, then make a blessing for world peace.

Before 12.00 noon – Some monks choose to eat a light lunch at this time. This is the last solid food they are allowed to consume until sunrise the following morning.Row of seated Buddhas

1.00 pm – Classes in Buddhist teaching begin. Some monks may attend school outside the temple.
6.00 pm – A two-hour session of meditation and prayer begins.
8.00 pm – The monks retire to do homework.

Pretty true, cos we woke up really early *considering its a holiday* to give alms and take photos. 😀

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SG-KL | Pt3

Got a nightmare some nights ago. 😀
In the dream, I was preparing for a trip overseas in the future.
Secured the tickets to get there, but having problem getting the returning tickets.

Dunno why, I could keep traveling overseas and back just trying to secure the returning tickets of that future trip.

😀 Weird dream huh?

Yes… being able to return home is very important to me. So important that I even dreamt about it. 😀

Anyway,
That was the first thing I went to locate when I finally got to KL. 😀
To collect/redeem my return ticket from Five Star Travels.
and it sure took me alot of hassle…

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SG-KL | Pt2

Met someone new while I was trying to figure out how to get to the Monorail. 😀

Him having his hair tied up, camera bag/or was it a water tumblr bag? with DSLR down his neck, lens hood, def not a newbie camera user like me.

😀

Was figuring my way out to get to the Monorail station, asking personnel at the counters, trying to capture key points of what they said: “2 escalator, cross road, kiri” 😀
Thats all that I need. 😀

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Batam (Paths)

Was walking around the place, taking photos when I felt one thing I could shoot were the paths, the paths uphill, the paths to their house. 🙂
Not really alot of variety, boards or cement. 🙂

Fascinating? Hellya!
How come they can run on this kind of boards? Or even ride a bike across? O_O

Its beyond my comprehension….

Ladies and Gentleman, may I present to you…

Of concrete and wooden boards…

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