A few years ago, when the business of budget flights to nearby Asian destinations was still at its infancy, I had a once-in-a-lifetime chance to do a Mount Kinabalu flyby aboard a tiny Cessna. I was transitioning from freelance writing and directing to working as a regular slave when the offer to write the pilot…
Some hard core travellers would tell you that hopping on a tourist bus is a waste of time and money. By ‘hard core’ I mean backpackers on their thirdorfourth round-the-world trip who consider such things as expensive tourist traps. Why not just go around the city on your own? they would say. Why spend money…
I have three words for Number Twenty: surot (bedbugs) sungit (rude) ingay (noise) This hostel is a good concept that failed in execution. It may be very cheap, but then again, you get what you pay for. It’s easy to get drawn to its seemingly perfect, Ikea-furnished interior but it’s a whole different story when…
This is where H and I stayed during our KL visit. It’s clean, it’s safe and it’s right in the center of Chinatown. Very accessible via taxis and buses. The LRT is just a couple of blocks away. It’s also a short walking distance from the Central Market. Highly recommended! Oh, and it’s affordable, too. …
Before going back to Manila, we just had to stop by the Swedish furniture company, Ikea. The last time I was in Ikea, it was still squatting in the basement of One Utama. But now, it has a space all its own in Damansara. It’s quite a long way from downtown KL but it’s worth…