April 17, 2011

Singapore Merlion

The city of the Merlion, Singapore is one of the famous country among South East Asia’s countries. It is not a very big country in term of geographical measurement and it can be consider as the smallest country in South East Asia countries. However, it is the most modern country and a famous city of shopping in South East Asia.

There are a lot interesting places in Singapore, for example China Town, Sentosa Island, Singapore National Zoo (which is also known as Night Safari at night) and etc. Singapore is very beautiful and modern in South East Asia, plus its transportation, the MRT is very flexible and systematic. Besides that, people like to go there for shopping because it is shopping heaven.


Singapore got an island that is mainly for recreation activities called Sentosa Island. In Sentosa Island, there are a lot indoor and outdoor activities, such as beach, theme park, theatre, go kart and etc. Added in year 2009, an Casino in Sentosa Island caused it more crowded than ever.

China Town

In Singapore, there is a street that called China Town, where hawkers selling varieties of stuffs, such as foods, souvenirs, clothes, watches and etc. Same like the Petalling Street in Kuala Lumper, China Town hawkers start operate around evening time and it is always crowded, either by local resident or tourists.


The allocation area for the hawkers to do business actually was quite large in area and it is very systematic arranged, where the corresponding type of business are grouped at the same sub-area. Sometimes, there will be some performances in China Town too, either on stage on just direct on the street. If go to Singapore for vacation, i think China Town is a place that we must go, because only at there we can really feel their culture.

Lookout Point - KL

Among Asia’s Country, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is a well know shopping location. Every year, there will be endless sales happening, such as Mega Sales, Stock Clearance Sales, Carnival Sales and etc. And for sure, it will be crowded with people who likes to shopping, especially girls.

But do anyone know about the beauty night scenes of Kuala Lumpur? In Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, there is a place called “Lookout Point”. It is located on a hill near Ampang area in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is a very strategic location where people can view the beautiful night scene of whole Kuala Lumpur. The shopping complexes, the twin tower and etc can all be clearly scened at Lookout Point.
There are also a few cafe and restaurant located on it, providing a relaxing environment to visitors. Visitor can enjoy the view while drinking tea at there. For first time visitor, usually they will want to take some photos about it. But to take a clear photo for the night scene of Kuala Lumpur at Lookout Point, a very good camera is needed, such as DSLR.

Genting Highland


Whenever people mention about Genting, I think that almost everyone in this world know about it. Genting highland is located in Malaysia and it is a famous tourism destination. Somehow I would like to express it as a mini Las Vegas since it also got casinos and full of themes activities. Genting highland can be accessible using cable car called Genting Skyway (3.38km) which at its opening was the world faster cable car. It is also known as South East Asia’s longest gondola lift.


Main attraction of Genting highland comes from the Casinos and the theme park. Besides that, there are also a lot of special places on Genting, such as the Snow world and Asia Culture village which sell souvenir from Vetniam, Singapore, Thailand and etc. The photos show an overview of how Genting highland looks like. Enjoy it.

Cameron Highland Steamboat

One of the special thing on Cameron Highland is the steamboat dishes. The steamboat on Cameron Highland are served in an traditional way, where the coal is used to cook. Older generation like to say that cooking in traditional way is more tasty than using electrical application devices, and now i do believe it. A simple steamboat dishes cooked using coal make me feel the soup does tastes nicer.

The steamboat on Cameron Highland got a tall tube in the middle of the pot, allowing the smoke of from the coal to escape to the higher atmosphere for convenient of enjoying steamboat. The steamboat are served at a considerable price and the food are fresh, some of the vegetables served in the steamboat are freshly picked.

One more enjoyment of eating steamboat on Cameron highland is that it helps you to keep warm in the cold environment, especially the cold weather of Cameron Highland at night.


Strawberry Farm - Cameron Highland


When we mention about Cameron Highland, the first thing that come into our mind is the strawberry farms at there. Strawberry farms and Tea farms are the two main attraction venues of Cameron Highland.

Cameron Highland has a cold, fresh and suitable environment for a lot types of vegetables, fruits and tea to grow. Hence, the main attraction of Cameron Highland comes from it agriculture activities, mainly the farms. Besides that, if someone who wish to stay away from the busy and stressful life of the city, Cameron Highland is a good choice for him/her to come for release tension and enjoy the beauty of the nature.

There are a few strawberry farms available on Cameron Highland. If a tourist wish to know where is the nearest strawberry farm from the hotel they staying, they can always ask the hotel admin. Most of the strawberry farms on Cameron Highland allow tourist to experience the joy of picking their own strawberry(ies), but once we picked it, then we must buy it. If one who do not know how and picked the raw strawberry, then they will taste sour strawberry. It was a quite nice experience actually.

Mid Mountain Waterfall - Cameron Highland


Last few months ago I have went for a trip with my coursemates. We have travelled around Malaysia and Singapore, explored a lot nice scenery and tasted a lot of nice food. One of our destination was Cameron Highland that located in Pahang, Malaysia. Since we were driving to Cameron Highland, we can stop at anywhere we want.

Actually there are two paths to go to Cameron Highland, a newly nice condition road and a old curvy road. Since we were going to Cameron Highland from Klang, so we have chosen to go using the old curvy road. The old curvy road was known as a road that always got landslide, which is very dangerous during raining session. However, we discovered the existance of a beautiful waterfall at the the mid-mountain area of Cameron Highland, which only can be discovered if we are using the old curvy road.

The air at there was so fresh and the sound of true nature was surrounding me when I stepped out from my car. The waterfall’s water is very clean and it seems very fascinating seeing the water fall from a layers of hill’s wall. The waterfall area was built as a garden where people can picnic at there. There are also hawker who selling local food and souvenirs around there.

BOH tea farm - Cameron Highland


Besides the strawberry farms, BOH tea farm was the attraction of Cameron Highland as well. There is only one tea farm on Cameron Highland, known as BOH tea centre. BOH tea cooperation is one of the well known red tea manufacturing in Malaysia and it has a very large tea farm on Cameron Highland, occupying hundreds acres of land.

The BOH tea farm allows tourist to walk through certain part of the farm, enjoying the greenish of tea farm. Besides that, they have a restaurant that serve drink and food, but the drink choices that available mainly are tea. BOH tea cooperation manufacturing a lot types of red tea, such as peach red tea, rose red tea and etc.



BOH tea centre also allow tourist to visit the factory that manufacturing the fresh tea leave into packages. Tourists can tour the factory alone in a safe condition as the plastic wall are installed inside the factory, providing a safe walk path from the entrance to exit of the factory. Explanations are also available on the wall explaining how the tea leave was process into packages.

Kuching Festival - Sarawak


Kuching, which people known as the city of cats, located in Sarawak, Malaysia. In Kuching, there is a celebration where we called it “Kuching Festival”. It is merely just a simple celebration to celebrate the existence of Kuching. However, for Kuching citizen, it is a celebration that they will not miss.

Usually Kuching Festival will be held around the middle of July until middle of August, around 20++ days of celebration. Kuching Festival mostly emphasize on the enjoyment of food, no matter is local food or non-local food. The food available are such as fried ice cream, hainan fried rice, lamb chop, tempeyaki and etc. Besides that, there are also exhibitions and performance during Kuching Festival, such as dancing by local dancers or cars exhibitions.


During Kuching Festival, the located festival area will always be crowded by people and traffic jam will be happened. Althought the situation is like that, it cannot stop people from going there to enjoy nice food.

Nadeja Cafe - Malacca


During my graduation’s celebration trip, I have been travelling around Malaysia together with my coursemates. One the our trip’s stop point is Malacca, Malaysia. Malacca is one of the state of Malaysia and it was one of the famous tourism’s places due to its well known history.

However during my trip, I was not only got the chance to explore the famous A’Farmosa but also I have tasted the nicest cake i ever ate in my life. It was a type of cheesecake, but it does not look like cheese cake. The cake was so smooth like it will melt once my tongue touched it. The tastiness of the cake was not because of the ingredients of the cake, but the mixture of ingredients and skills of the cake baker. The cake consists of layers of thin cheesecake layers and fresh cream. The layers of the cheesecake were as thin as cardboard papers. With the combination of the fresh cream, the tastiness of the cake was totally been brought to our tongue. There are different tastes of cheesecake available, but I think the original taste cheesecake still the best.

With a glass of sour drink, such as orange juice, the cake tastes even better.
The shop that sell the cake was known as Nadeja cafe and the cake was listed as Malaysia Most wanted food. The sad thing about this cake is that it is only available in Nadeja cafe in Malacca. Next time, if I ever got a chance to go to Malacca

Historical Town - Malacca


Malacca, one of the famous tourism destination due to its historical story. Malacca was a well known enter-port in 1960’s century due to its strategic location for ships from whole around the world to stop by and also it is a place where the dishes aroma are produced.



Malacca now is known as the red town in Asia due to its buildings which painted in red colour. It is not a very big or advance town, but it is definitely a beautiful town. The main attraction of Malacca comes from its historical building, the A’Famosa fortress. Besides that, Malacca also full of other attractions, such as flowery tricycle and snake performance.

A Farmosa - Malacca


When people mentioned about Malacca, most people will think of historical story of Malacca. Now, the main most famous historical building that left is the A Formosa fortress and some of the traditional culture that has been left from the past.

A Famosa fortress was built by Portuguese fleet which led by Afonso de Albuquerque, after they have successfully conquered Malacca Sultanate. Afonsobelieved that Malacca would become an important port for trading between countries, especially linking Portugal to the spice trade from China.

But in year 1641, when the Dutch has successfully drove the Portuguese out of Malacca, the A”ortress was occupied by them and it was renovated. Then in early of 19th century, it was again changed hands when Dutch handed it over to British and it was ordered its destruction after that, leaving only the small gate of the fortress.

Now, only that small gate of fortress left was left from the past. As its historical story of legendary A’Famosa fortress, now it leads to the grow of tourism in Malacca.