Day 5 Walking path of samurai in Kyoto
Kyoto is the old capital of Japan before the present day Edo/Tokyo. I had read so much about the end days of the Shogunate era before the Meiji restoration (thanks to the game Hakuoki) that ...
Travel Log
Travel diary on the go
Day 4 Deers and Dolphins
What do deers and dolphins have in common? We saw both of them on this day of our trip which was in a way meant mostly for the children to catch some nature after days ...
Day 3 Himeji Castle
There were two things on our agenda today – visit Himeji Castle and shopping at Den Den Town. However we left our apartment relatively late and after spending more than 20 minutes exchanging our rail ...
Day 2 Walking around Osaka
Some distinctive features one can almost immediately observe about Osaka – its orderly gridlike road network, the number of cyclists on the road and the love for shopping streets which can be identified by the ...
Day 1 Konnichiwa from Osaka
It has been ages since I blogged about my travels. In 2013, I extended my work trip to Korea, then we went for a short family trip to Bali again. In 2014, we took a ...
Chillin out at Cameron Highlands
It has been 4 years since our last visit to Cameron Highlands. Theo and I took two days off our hectic schedule and packed the kids to cool down during their school vacation. Afterall there ...
Day 3 – 5 Around Hong Kong & Disneyland
The thing about traveling about a cosmopolitan city is that unless you’re doing up a walking map of places to see, the whole journey around just seems pretty much haphazard with not much planning and ...
Day 2 Around Macao
As expected, we could hardly get out of bed this morning and had to miss our daily breakfast. As such, we opted to use our lunch vouchers and had our first meal of the day ...
Day 1 Ferry to Macao
So the day arrived for our family vacation to Macao – Hong Kong. We would meet my brother and his wife at HK since they were flying in from KL. It was baby Benjamin’s virgin ...
Day 4 Mysore Palace
Today would be our last day in India. While I would have preferred an extra day or two to head further south to visit Ooty, a popular hill station in Tamil Nadu, my body was already ...