Asia Travel Blog

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 [...]

On 2010, Garuda will use Airbus for upgrading their services to the customers. This plane will use to transport passengers from Beijing-Jakarta and vice versa. Garuda Manager Sentot Mujiono said this in Beijing. He also said, the comfort of passengers is getting priority since the competition is quite tight. He optimistic that Garuda can achieve the [...]

If in Japan we can find Japan Fashion Week, right now we can find similar event but in different place, Hongkong Fashion Week. This event was held on Wednesday. There are many designers involved and took participate there, such as An Yoon Jung, Over Rolls house mode, and Ane Wei. They offered a simple design fashion [...]

Recently, China government promoted their currency, Yuan, as a global currency. They started it with allowed their neighbour district, Hongkong and Macao, to use Yuan as payment transaction. The next move is using Yuan when make a deal with ASEAN country. This movement has many benefits, such as help China’s export, decrease rate fluctuation, especially for [...]

Yesterday, Garuda officially open new flight traffic, Denpasar - Shanghai. This action to anticipate the increasing of tourist from China to Bali. The opening means, the tourists from China will not transit in Jakarta, as they are used to be, but starting Dec 20 2008, they can flight direct to Denpasar. The China tourists are very [...]

China has many fascinating destinations. One of them is Temple of Heaven. It is quite worth to be visited when you go to China. This temple is located in southeastern urban Beijing, in Xuanwu District. It is much much bigger than Forbidden City, with an area is about 2.73 kilometres squares. It was constructed in reign [...]

Since Friday, August 8 2008, the World Olympic began. The opening ceremony is so fantastic. Unfortunately, there is no television station in Indonesia presented the show. So, I saw the ceremony by downloading the clips from youtube. After the opening ceremony, more than 2,000 athletes will compete to be the greatest in the world. Well, this olympic [...]

World Olympic is coming soon! It means, many activities in China, especially in Beijing, will increasing. And you know what, the rush has just begun as we can see the increasing of hotel reservation in Beijing. Vice President of Beijing Tourism, Xiong Yumei, said the average of reservation is quite high, it’s about 77% rooms were [...]

Chinese etnis in Indonesia has an unique celebration, called Peh Cun. This celebration, originally, came from China, was held thousand years ago. The reason why Peh Cun celebration was held, there is a prime minister during Han dinasty. His name is Khut Gwam. His heroic actions during officiate the position was a bless for [...]

On July 7 - August 28 2008, in Beijing, some painters from Bali will participate in the exhibition,”The 3rd Beijing International Art Biennale 2008″. Those paintings was created by 6 best Bali painters which were selected before. One of the artis that his painting contribute on the event, I Wayan Sujana SSN, said the event will [...]