Asia
Canon HF10 High Definition (HD) Camcorder Review
Well this is just a quick post which hopefully I will get round to edit a bit later 😉 I’ve just ordered a Canon HF10 HD camera to what is planned to be able to make some shorts of my travelling adventures. I’m not too sure how well they will go, but lets wait and […]
2Dec2008 | Alex | 6 comments | Continued
Koh Phi Phi, Thailand
Koh Phi Phi is one of the nicest places I came across traveling, I arrived a few weeks after the tsunami and to be honest the people of Koh Phi Phi had done a fantastic job of clearing up the debris. It was quite heart breaking as people were still diving around the shores looking […]
29Apr2007 | Alex | 29 comments | Continued
Pulau Langkawi, Sky Bridge
Langkawi is actually an archipelago, it consists of 99 islands and is just under 20 miles off the coast of Malayisa. The islands are part of Malayaisa not as part of Thailand which people tend to think. The main island or should I say biggest is Palau Langkawi which has about 45,000 people living on […]
22Feb2007 | Alex | 12 comments | Continued
Snake Temple, Penang
Well this had to be certainly the most interesting temple I visited in Malaysia. The Snake Temple in Bayan Lepas is a temple full of Crotalinae snakes aka Pit Vipers. These snakes have long hollow fangs which will inject you with a proteotoxic venom, this type of venom wont paralyse you but will eat away […]
17Feb2007 | Alex | 10 comments | Continued
The Batu Caves, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur
The Batu Caves in Malaysia were discovered in 1892 and are about 7 miles north of Kuala Lumpur and turned out to be about an hours trek on a local non air conditioned bus! The limestone caves are sacred for the Malaysian Hindus and consist of three main caves 400m long and up to 100 […]
22Jan2007 | Alex | 6 comments | Continued
The Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur
The Petronas Twin Towers here in Kuala Lumpur were once the world’s tallest buildings. From 1998 to 2004 they remained as this, however in 2004 Taipei 101 in Taiwan took the title which stands nearly 200 foot taller! However they still stand today as the world’s tallest twin towers. The Petronas Twin Towers were designed […]
28Dec2006 | Alex | 28 comments | Continued
Sirocco Roof Bar Restaurant, The Dome State Tower, Bangkok
I have no idea how the hell I missed this place! I think I’m going to have to go back to Sirocco just to dine alfresco on the sixty-third floor of Bangkok’s second tallest building! The venue wasn’t meant to be just another roof bar or restaurant but a venue for elegant atmosphere or something […]
28Nov2006 | Alex | 31 comments | Continued
The Summer Palace an imperial garden in Beijing
The Summer palace is the biggest imperial garden in China, and beyond doubt is the best preserved out of all the imperial gardens. It was built in 1750 and was originally called the “Garden of Clear Ripples” but most of it was destroyed in 1860 (The allied forces of Britain and France wanted to secure […]
18Jul2006 | Alex | 8 comments | Continued
The Temple of Heaven, Beijing
Well this was one of the places in China I travelled to which surprised me the most. It is also known as Tiantan (Tian tan). It felt unreal that a 20 minute walk from mayhem Beijing you could enter a world of peace and paradise. It was massive defiantly bigger than the Forbidden City, and […]
14Jul2006 | Alex | 4 comments | Continued
Beijing, China
Well my travel blog has to have a post about Beijing… and where do I start? Beijing is without a doubt the busiest place I have been to, including Hong Kong. It is situated in the Scandinavian part of China. Beijing city has an area of about 17²km with a population of 14 million people. […]
11Jul2006 | Alex | 0 comments | Continued
