Asia Travel Blog

Malaysia has many beaches, beautiful beaches which deserve and worthed enough to be visited. Penang is one of those beautiful beaches. Located in West of Malaysia, Penang has been changed into a must visited destination since there are many accomodations and infra structure that support the tourists acitivies.

Many traditional buildings were restored, so we can feel the old times. The culture was also conserved in order to support the atmosphere of colonial period.

The room is quite cheap, it’s only about US$5/day for a 5 stars hotel. The food is also cheap, grouped into some categories based on the country/taste, such as Chinese food, India food, and Melayu food.

Hmmm…seems interesting to be visited, someday. ;-)

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Bali is still a favorite destination for Chinese tourists. We can see the fact from the statistic during Jan - Aug 2009. From 231,981 Chinese tourists, it’s about 135,690 (60%) choose Bali as their destination.

This can be happened, since the promotion about Bali is quite frequent in China. Soon or later, this promotion made many Chinese tourists attract and try to find out why Bali is so special. So, they choose Bali as their destination for their vacation.

Well, there is no wonder why Bali can attract many Chinese tourists. Destination, culture, beach (and the sand) can hypnotize every tourists who had visited.

So, how about you? Have you ever visit Bali?

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Maybe most of us know that Malaysia is one of Indonesia’s competitor to attract tourists to their own countries. The competition is happening in many areas, such as destinations, culiners, cultures, and many more. Sometimes competition spirit is touch the nationality, especially for Indonesian people. Some cases made Indonesian people did some demonstrations for Malaysia’s claim to some traditional cultures.

Many Indonesian came to Malaysia, as tourists, for many reasons. Shopping and culiner can be the main factor why they came to Malaysia.

But, actually there are Malaysian tourists visit Indonesia. I read from here, Malaysia tourists number is increasing about 9.60%. On Januari-Agustus 2008 there were 460,268 Malaysian tourists, meanwhile this year the number ’said’ 504,449.

So, the rivality between those 2 countries not (quite) affect with the tourism. :-)

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Pangandaran is a famous tourist attraction, located at the south-east end of West Java province, Indonesia. Its beaches are reputably the best and finest in Java island, and also offer excellent surfing. Other than its fine beaches, Pangandaran also offer a beautiful national park and its own version of green canyon.

However, its location at the southern regency of Ciamis in West Java makes Pangandaran not really appealing to Jakarta and Bandung tourists, let alone foreign tourists. By road, it takes around 5-6 hours to reach Pangandaran from Bandung, the capital city of West Java province, and it takes around 7-8 hours to reach Pangandaran from Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia, by road.

Fortunately, there is now a faster alternative to reach Pangandaran, which is via air. Susi Air, an airline previously specialised in chartered services, has started scheduled services from Jakarta and Bandung to Pangandaran. This will cut down the travel time between Jakarta and Pangandaran to only one hour. It will operate a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft with a capacity of 12 passengers to service the Jakarta-Pangandaran route twice a day, one direct flight and another one with a stopover in Bandung.

The flight from Jakarta will depart from Halim Perdanakusuma airport, located east of the city and closer to the city centre compared to Soekarno-Hatta International airport.

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Happy Eid Mubarak!

I’m sorry for my faults on this blog. :-)

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India is well known as one of country which has exotic culture. The adore to the God made India has many festival to express they are really adore to their Gods that had given they many blesses.

One of festival is Deodhani festival. This festival was held on August, every year and dedicated for Manasa, God of Snake. This year, festival was held in Hindu Kamakhya temple, in Nilachal Hill, Gauhati, Assam, India. Hundred of Hindunese attended on this festival. Read full entry »

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Well, visiting Thailand, for some moslems, is quite make scare especially the frighten to get “halaal” food. Actually, they don’t have to worry about it. South Thailand is well known as moslem regional, so you can go there to get the halaal food. Anyway, you can find halaal food in Bangkok even the moslems population is still a few.

If you visit Thailand during Ramadhan, there are many foods to be consumed, especially for break fast.

You can say baking fish with Thai chilies. Or you can try tom yam, a ‘hot’ and spicy food, which being an icon of Thai. Many places provides such as food, but you can try Ratchaburi Road in Bangkok.

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Do you know, Malaysia had taken serious action to work on Indonesia tourists since 2003?

On that year, it was about 1 million Indonesia tourists came to Malaysia, for enjoying Malaysia exotic cuisine and shopping. Then Malaysia government gave target to Malaysia Tourism Board for inviting (at least) 3 million Indonesia tourists/year.

The interesting thing is MTB took many aggresive approaching to many persons that related or can connect with Indonesia tourists. At least banking sector and airlines were involved for funding and providing many accomodations.

MTB made some tricks for bring about many Indonesia tourists, especially who has shopping maniac. Providing package “buy one get one free”, it became a good start for Malaysia.

And right now, “Truly Asia” became an icon for Malaysia. Unfortunately, many claims were made by Malaysia to support “Truly Asia”, including claiming Pendet Bali.

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Well, I wrote this article for your kids. Maybe you can take them to visit (at least one) city here since this cities have a good destination for kids to spend their vacation.

• Oaxaca, Mexico. This little city has many places to be visited on foot. There are also a traditional market. Interesting? Visit www.visitmexico.com.
• Istanbul, Turkey. You and your kids can learn alot about mosque, palace, museum, and many more. For information, you can visit www.tourismturkey.org.
• London, English. There are 2 types of vacation that you can choose. For summer you and family can visit Somerset House. On winter, you can glide on the ice. Find more information on www.visitlondon.com.
• Los Angeles, USA. At least you can visit Disneyland, Universal Studios or Santa Monica. Visit www.discoverlosangeles.com.
• Vancouver, Canada. You like biking and hiking? Well this city will satisfy you. Visit www.vancouver.ca/visitors.htm.
• Lisabon, Portuguese. You can use electrical train to explore many destinations here. www.lisbon-guide.info for your information.
• Copenhagen, Denmark. Many old buildings can be visited and your kids can explore many parks. Visit visitcopenhagen.com.
• Singapore, Singapore. Well, maybe this city is the closest one from Jakarta. Many guides and informations on www.visitsingapore.com.
• Sydney, Australia. Huge aquarium, zoo, and many more can be visited here. Try visiting www.sydney.com.au for more info.
• Rome, Italy. Want to try Rome atmosphere? Visit www.romaturismo.it.

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Maybe not many Indonesian tourists know that Japan has a magnificent destination, pearl island. This destination was located on Mikimoto, Mie prefecture, it’s about 150 km west Nagoya.

You can the demonstration to pick a pearl from bottom of the sea.

Mikimoto is well known as a center of pearl in Japan. From the raw until become a jewelry, you can follow those process here. This city grew up as pearl center since 1890 and become larger since 1937.

The other destination in Mikimoto is the huge aquarium, called Toba aquarium. At least 850 fish species were collected and be shown here.

Feel bored? Visit hot water spring in Misugi Resort Hotel and take a break and recharge your energy.

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