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Hong Kong :: Day 4
The Long Trip to Lan Tau Islands – Big Buddha We woke up a little bit earlier this morning in hope of reaching our final destination before noon, when the sun would become very Hot. We kind of made it! Not before our morning breakfast of Chee Cheong Fun and Porridge and this little store,…
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Hong Kong :: Day 3
3rd day in HKG: The Pingshan With No Shan We decided we’ll do one thing different in every trip, not the touristy stuff as mentioned by my travel partner. The night before bed, after the IC figured how we should get there by MTR, we decided: Pingshan Trail. What attracted me to visit Pingshan was…
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Hong Kong :: Day 2
After a good night sleep, we woke up to a beautiful morning in Hong Kong. Today, we decided to explore Central – the city central of Hong Kong, the happening place. We took the train nearest to our Hotel（尘沙水） to Central（ä¸åŽŸï¼‰and went hunting for both food and good shopping. The first thing tha caught our…
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Hong Kong :: Day 1
It was my first trip to Hong Kong and it was the May Holidays in China. No doubt it was considered peak period as I could not get a seat to fly out of Singapore on Cathay Pacific and, eventually, had to take United Airlines. (Jet Star was not cheap either for the same flying…
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Melbourne (Good Bye) :: Day 10
This was the final day in Melbourne. Our flight was at 1550 hours and we were due to be back in Singapore at 2130 hours. Early morning we woke up and went to DFO Spencer St, as my mum wanted to get more T-shirts which were quite cheap. She got what she wanted and more.…
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Melbourne (Shopping) :: Day 9
The 2nd last day of our trip in Melbourne, we woke up lazily and ate some light breakfast (leftovers from our late night supper the night before) before we headed out to Melbourne Shopping District on Bourke Street, where there were a congregation of large shopping centres that crosses vast territories and goes over a…
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Melbourne (Shopping – Queen Victoria Market and DFO, Spencer St) :: Day 8
This morning, I was looking for a post office. I had asked numerous people from various convenience stores, but most did not know how much it was to send a postcard back home. The map I had showed one relatively near my hotel and so I went out early morning to hunt it down. Unfortunately,…
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Melbourne (Puffing Billy – Yarra Valley Wineries – Fergusson, Richford, Domaine Chandon) :: Day 7
Once again, by 6.30 am (4.30 am in SIN) we were awake to have our little breakfast in our room (we got our own, as the tour package breakfast was over … thankfully!!!) and then headed over to Holiday Inn on Flinder’s Street again to wait for our early morning pick up coach. We headed…
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Melbourne (Bridge Rd, Queen Victoria Market) :: Day 6 :: Happy Easter!!!
Woke up late this morning around 9.30 am. It is a lazy Sunday and I let my mum sleep in a bit more as she wasn’t too well. It was Easter today, on hindsight, should have went on the final tour of the Yarra Valley, which we were going tomorrow, today. Most of the shops…
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Melbourne (Grampians National Park) :: Day 5
Today, we went to the Grampians National Park. It was a Saturday and part of the Easter Holiday weekend, so our guide was telling us to expect a crowd at the park. In fact, there was a crowd on board the bus too. It was an hour plus drive out to the 1st stop, which…