This city country is a must stop on your Southeast Asia trip.  It is clean, safe, with great transportation system, and the food is excellent.   We began our SE Asia trip in Singapore and ended it there. It is  a great place to visit. The people were very friendly and polite. There are many correlations to Japan, with clean...

Take it slow and enjoy the attractions.   When it is warm, it always is, stop and enjoy a cool sticky rice mango treat. ​ (Lead image : www.bangcock.com) This was our first trip to Thailand and I really did not know what to expect. We had been traveling  South East Asia for ten days and decided to spend three ...

​Penang, a UNESCO World Heritage Site Penang In Penang \we were met by a distant cousin of Evelyn's, Hong. She escorted us to the famous Snake Temple filled with viper snakes.  I had my picture taken with a python wrapped around me, and then a private tour of a snake farm, where the guide brought a King Cobra out of it's box and let ...

Kuala Lumpur - Food - Sites - Food Kuala Lumpur Our purpose in visiting Malaysia was to meet up with former Buford, Georgia neighbor Evelyn.  We use to do our morning walks together and grew very fond of her and husband Freddy.  She visits her family in Malaysia every two years and invited us to meet up on this trip. My only impressi...

​Conrad Hotels & Resorts has continued its expansion in Japan with the opening of Conrad Osaka on the 33rd to 40th floors of the Nakanoshima Festival Complex between the Umeda and Namba districts. All 164 rooms and suites offer views of the river or Osaka cityscape, with floor-to-ceiling windows. There are four restaurants and the 40 Sky Bar &a...

Naukuchhiatal, in Uttarakhand state in the northern India, is a twin-lake actually. The sprawling bigger one with nine corners and adjoining it, the much smaller with a number of lotuses budding and blooming in it. A place to fill you with its serenity, beauty and tranquillity of nature...  The keen desire to be at Naukuchhiatal some...