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Backpacking Malaysia on a budget
Backpacking Malaysia is an amazing experience, and this is useful tips I draw from my first trip to the Muslim country in Southeast Asia. Transportation Airplane – AirAsia is a Malaysian low-price airline, so that it should be the first consideration to “hunt” for cheaper tickets. Ticket price approximately ranges from 1 million to 1.5 millions vnd as your luck. – VietjetAir sometimes also sells tickets abroad at the price of 0 vnd. This airline tickets to Malaysia usually cost about 1.5 to 1.7 millions vnd. Notice: These prices include toll, tax, and visa fee. Bus During this journey, I mainly used bus to move from airport to city center…
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Sapa Travel Guide
First time backpacking Sapa ? My top tips providing useful and in-depth information of get-in, get-around, things to do, food to eat and accommodation tips. Get-in You can ride to Sapa, however, most of backpackers reports that it takes them at least 5-7 hours and the road is quite rough. There’s a high-speed highway, a bus take only 4-5 hour to Lao Cai city and plus 1 hour to Sapa town. So mostly people choose to take overnight bus to the town to take advantage of time. I took Sao Viet bus (789 Giai Phong str. – Hoang Mai, Ha Noi/ 04. 36.686.358). You should book in advance to get…
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A quick travel guide to Chiang Mai
There are 4 kinds of people who will love Chiang Mai: natural-oriented minds, budget travelers, culture explorers and adventure challengers. The quick Chiang Mai travel guide below will explain in details. Get in The cheapest mean of transportation to Chiang Mai is ordinary train, there’s one at Bang Sue station, only 270 baht. Overnight train but very basic equipment so you’re expected to deal with noise, dust and back ache because they are all wooden seat. It’s cheap but very fatigue. I’ve taken bus, which I thought it was quite more expensive than train at first (488 baht for a class I seat) but then I found that Bus was…
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Hua Hin Travel Guide
How to get in and around Hua Hin? What to eat and Where to go… My travel guide to Hua Hin will find out the best experience! My friend, who usually visits Thailand as a hardcore-budget traveler, suggested me join his journey to Hua Hin, as he introduced “Thai King’s resort”. I and (maybe) many ones, have never considered the town as a must-go destination among Pattaya, Phuket, Krabi,… But my experience proves that you’ll hardly find anything new in old places. Get in He recommended me experience Thai train, which he said “very cheap”. Cheap is not always a comfortable option, you have to keep the mindset if you…
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Top 5 destinations for a perfect Hua Hin day trip
Many ones travel from Bangkok to enjoy a Hua Hin day trip. To be honest, among 5 destinations total, I love only one. What about you? For my reason to book a Hua Hin day trip. Actually, I and my friend didn’t expect this until the last morning in Hua Hin. He ran into me and pushed me pack up in hurry to join the tour. Originally, a young beautiful chinese girl bought the tour online, but there’s some trouble between her and the driver providing the tour. My friend heard of the conversation and with an intentional mind, he suggested the girl share ride. So that’s why we had a chance to visit King’s…
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Top 3 destinations you should go in an old Manila walk tour
In south-east asia region, many of my friends wish one time touching Europe, not only for the modern lifestyle but also gorgeous Roman buildings. After a walk around Intramuros in Manila, I came up with an idea: No need to visit Euro for old buildings because Manila is truly an amazing destination for those who love old European architecture.If you backpack Manila, why not take an old Manila walk tour and you’ll see Fort Santiago I bought a ticket to Fort Santiago when it was 4PM. The sunset was so beautiful, reflecting its charming on the water, through tree shades and old buildings. The ticket booth was decorated in Christmas style.…
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Doi Inthanon Travel Guide
First time to Chiang Mai and wanna check in Doi Inthanon at best price. My Doi Inthanon budget travel guide will hopefully help you well. There are two Doi (mountain) nearby Chiang Mai, which is ideal for people loving trekking or nature-oriental mind. They are Doi Inthanon and Doi Suthep. While the later is quite close by, the former locates 100 km far from Chiang Mai. Doi Inthanon is a complex of 482 km square and 2565m in height, known as “the roof of Thailand” – the summit is the highest spot in pagoda country and “the tail” of Everest mountain, so it’s worth a visit. This is a large area,…
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First 24-hours in Manila, Filipino capital
My Manila quick guide will help you deal effectively with the first hours in the strange city, which is usually very tense because you have to get used to many things: transportation, language, people, things to do,… Custom gates To be accepted, you have to prove that you have friends, booked hotels and on top of that: the paper proving you have a ticket getting out of the Philippines. I usually use e-booking, then show e-ticket. However, I made a big mistake when at custom gate of Ninoy Aquino airport. I didn’t have screenshots or printed e-ticket, while the booking app requiring internet connection to show the ticket status and information.…
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Phu Quoc Travel Guide
After 4 days riding around Phu Quoc, now I’m feeling a bit regretful for people who came to Viet Nam without any chances to visit the beautiful Pearl island (yeah, it’s nickname!). How lovely it is ! This guide follows my findings and real experiences so it’s quite personal. Hopefully it’s useful for world travelers who tend to be in this south-east asian country for a time. 1. How to get to Phu Quoc There are 2 ways to set your foot on the beautiful island: on boat and on air. Boating: first you need to catch a open bus to the Rach Gia – Kien Giang, it usually costs you 8-9 usd, you…
