DAY 3: 9 March 2013, Saturday (Note: I managed to dig out my old diary and extracted some information from my journal entry, so this post contains more details compared to the previous two days) After spending our first two days chilling in Ubud, it was time to move on to Kintamani, an area on […]
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DAY 2: 8 March 2013, Friday For our second day in Bali, we continued exploring Ubud. We woke up at 9am for a hearty breakfast at our hotel before heading out at 10:40am to visit one of the rice fields at Sari Organik, located about 3km away on foot but about 6km away by car. […]
It’s time to revisit another past trip…in March 2013, I visited Bali for the first time. For many Westerners, Bali is one of those must-go, bucket list destinations, with its white sand beaches, legendary sunsets and laid-back charm attracting hordes of tourists each year. Fortunately for us in Singapore, paradise is less than three hours […]
Since COVID-19 has curtailed all my travel plans for the foreseeable future, it is now a good time to post about some of my past trips that I didn’t get to write about. I shall start with this amazing trip to Nepal that I undertook in end-2013, which stretched into 2014. Nepal is one of […]
A little over two years after I returned from my Grand Adventure on 8 August 2018, I finally completed writing my blog posts of the 100 days spent during the trip. I had initially targeted to complete the posts on 8 August 2020 (exactly two years after my return), but I missed the mark by […]
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The Grand Adventure: Day 100 – Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) / Singapore
8 August 2018, Wednesday Today is the day…Day 100 and the day I return home to Singapore. I woke up feeling a mixture of excitement and sadness – excited because I will finally be back in a familiar place I love so much; and sad because it marks the end of this wonderful Grand Adventure. […]
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The Grand Adventure: Day 99 – Thailand (Hat Yai) / Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur)
7 August 2018, Tuesday After an uneventful day in Hat Yai yesterday, I was very eager to move on to Kuala Lumpur today. I checked out of my hostel at 6:40am and walked to Haadyai Station, aka Hat Yai Junction railway station, less than 10 minutes away. Yesterday, I had already purchased my ticket for […]
6 August 2018, Monday I slept pretty well on the train last night. The bed was comfortable and spacious enough despite having to place my big backpack on the corner of the bed. I woke up intermittently from 4am onwards, mainly because the air-conditioning was getting really cold. At 5:50am, a vendor came on board […]
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The Grand Adventure: Day 97 – Thailand (Bangkok / Hat Yai)
5 August 2018, Sunday Today, I’ll be making my way down south to Hat Yai, the largest town in the Songkhla province of Thailand, close to the border of Peninsular Malaysia. With each journey, I am inching ever closer to home. My overnight train will only depart at 3:10pm, so I still have the morning […]
4 August 2018, Saturday As I arrived late in Bangkok yesterday, I didn’t have much time to explore the city last night. Today, I had a full day ahead of me and I was raring to go. At 8:30am, I had breakfast at my hostel. It was a simple spread of toast, cereal and coffee. […]
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The Grand Adventure: Day 95 – Cambodia (Siem Reap) / Thailand (Bangkok)
3 August 2018, Friday After spending two nights in Siem Reap, it was time to move off yet again to Bangkok, the capital of Thailand. This would be the 18th country of my trip. Bangkok is of course, a city that all Singaporeans are very familiar with. It is a popular destination for a short […]
2 August 2018, Thursday For my second day in Siem Reap, I would be joining a bicycle tour of the countryside. At 7:15am, I went for breakfast at my hostel. Breakfast wasn’t included in my room rate so I paid US$6.75 (S$9.65) for my classic breakfast set and a flat white. It wasn’t as cheap […]