On day 3 , we proceeded to the border checkpoint in Mong Cai. We walked across the bridge that links the Vietnamese border town of Mong Cai on the southern bank and the China Dongxing City of the northern bank across the Beilun River.

We spend a night at Nanning before proceeding to Guilin.
Day 4: We […]

After an hour’s climbing and walking around the cave, we finally met the sun again. The air in the cave was pretty good and fresh, but i still prefer to be out. I cannot imagine getting lost all alone in the cave. The stones and natural carvings seemed scary after a while.
Today’s our last […]

We arrived at one of the caves in Halong Bay. I don’t remember the actual name of the cave but this is the cave which the ferry from the mainland brought us to. I guess there are other caves around the bay but this is one of the popular one.
There’s one island which our tour […]

Day 2 - Hanoi (Halong Bay) Part One
If you ever had a chance to go Vietnam, you will definitely NOT give Halong Bay a miss. Else you might as well don’t go Vietnam. (At least this is what colleagues told me) It’s the main tourist attraction in Vietnam.
Today we had a full day excursion to […]

1st March 2008 - Day 1 (Singapore to Hanoi)
This was my first trip abroad with my family. We (total 6 members) hardly had a chance to travel together. Going to Vietnam/China was never on my mind as i am a eat-potato person (in dialect, it’s call jiat gang dang a.k.a one who prefers to speak […]

Did you ever had this experience?
You are happily planning for a tour/wedding when suddenly things started happening all around you in the workplace. Things had been quiet earlier on.

This is what is happening to me this week.
Issues/tasks have been piling up on me this week [out of the blue, when i thought issues had […]