Posts Tagged with "accommodation"

Pangandaran, West Java

Sunday, August 7, 2011

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Pangandaran, West Java

After taking care of a few housekeeping matters in Bandung, I decided to head off on a journey to some Javan destinations. The rough plan was to visit about 5 places in 10 days, but I ended up only visiting Pangandaran on the south coast and Yogyakarta in central Java which is more akin to [...]

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Bali Travel: Ubud

Monday, August 23, 2010

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Bali Travel: Ubud

This is Part 3 of my Bali Travel Overview which started here and was continued here. I’ve generally encountered two types of people that enjoy Bali. The beach types and the culture types. The beach types predominantly hang out in the South (Kuta, Legian Seminyak and the Bukit) and the culture junkies in the centre [...]

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Myanmar (Burma): Mandalay & Bagan

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

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Myanmar (Burma): Mandalay & Bagan

The Road to Mandalay Looking at the map, Bagan and Mandalay are fairly close to one another, but the bone-crunching reality is that between these two places the road is like a goat track. One shouldn’t be surprised by this given that most roads in Burma seem to be of the goat-track kind! The journey [...]

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Is it Really Worth Saving a Dollar?

Friday, June 4, 2010

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Is it Really Worth Saving a Dollar?

When travelling through South East Asia and probably other parts of the world, you meet all sorts of different travellers.  You meet the package tourist, the flashpacker, the stinky backpacker, the know-it-all backpacker and also a bunch of “normal” backpackers.  But there is a subset of these people that I am really interested in.  It’s [...]

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Myanmar (Burma): Overview

Saturday, April 24, 2010

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Myanmar (Burma): Overview

After recently travelling through Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) with a friend of mine, I felt compelled to write about my experience.  It was one of the most intriguing places I have ever visited and over the coming weeks I’ll be providing more detail about the political situation there, some of the sites and perhaps [...]

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