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Wow it’s 4:45am here and we’re beat. We woke up at 5:30 am and were on a bus by 7am for a long bus ride, non-stop eating/shopping day in Kuala Lumpar before taking the red eye bus back to Singapore again. Our first experience riding “First Class” buses and we took two different ones. We’re [...]
We’re busy hopping around Asia so I apologize for not bringing you this article in full detail, but let me post a teaser and I’ll make good with dozens of photographs and a report very soon In Singapore, there’s a Body Show. One of many in the world now. Famous and infamous, it displays not [...]
From Booklist *Starred Review* Even the most avid readers of travel guides and travel literature will not have encountered a book quite like this one. It is huge and heavy but reasonably priced, and it is vastly informative, which is its calling card. All the writers who contribute to the Lonely Planet travel guide series [...]
I was looking up some hotel rates and noticed a really great deal on one of the places I’ve stayed before. At the moment (December 20th, 2009), if you’re booking a high season room the first week of January, the Abloom is only $36 a night for a studio suite! The one bedroom superior is [...]
“What’s the best camera?” is a question that’s often asked. There’s a long answer and a short answer. The long answer requires quite a bit more data. What are you using it for? What is your final output? What is your budget? and on and on and on. The short answer is much simpler. Q: [...]
I wanted to thank my readers for coming to abettertrip. It’s really a labor of love for me, giving me a place to share experiences and photos and videos. There’s nothing lonelier than the ghost town of a website with no visitors. You make it worth going on, so I thank you. Thank you. And [...]
Here’s a sample. This one is a photo I took at the Siam Cultural Park. It’s overlooked by most travel sites. The day we were there, there was a large number of young giggly (yes, they really were) college girls (or seniors in high school? I can never tell) moving in one big clump from [...]
Do you love tasting different and occasionally exotic foods? Then booking a cooking class might be just the change of pace you’re looking for. I’ve attended three different cooking classes in Thailand, each time learning a different set of dishes, as well as a short kimchee making class in Seoul, South Korea as part of [...]
