Category: South East Asia

  • <—-Kisah Sebelumnya Aku keluar dari Palm Jumeirah Station hampir pukul tiga sore. Usai menaiki Dubai Tram, aku melangkah ke utara menuju Palm Jumeirah Monorail Footbridge. Jembatan pejalan kaki itu mengangkangi jalur Dubai Tram dan King Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud Street, lalu terhubung dengan gedung parkir milik Palm Jumeira Gateway Towers, sebuah gedung apartemen kelas…

  • <—-Kisah Sebelumnya Aku meninggalkan Burj Khalifa setelah hampir satu jam berada di halaman depannya. Terik surya masih saja menyengat, tiupan angin yang menghembuskan udara kering terus menghantam badan yang semakin basah dengan peluh. Aku mempercepat langkah atas kondisi itu…. Beberapa menit kemudian, aku sudah memasuki Dubai Mall/Burj Khalifa Station yang menawarkan suhu dingin di dalamnya.…

  • Mattress at Yadoya Guesthouse’s bunk bed also seemed to like an ice beam, even when early hours have already gone. That morning, I deliberately slowed myself to wake up, I looked like a coward who hid behind the thickness of dormitory blanket. I revenged for my eyes, after almost forty hours didn’t so perfectly closed.…

  • Halo travelers…. Kali ini saya akan mengajak Anda semua menuju Kota Bandung. Saya yakin bahwa segenap traveler baik yang pernah dan belum mendapat kesempatan berwisata ke sana pastinya telah mengenal Kota Bandung. Dari segi pariwisata, Kota Bandung memang menawarkan banyak destinasi yang menarik untuk dikunjungi oleh traveler manapun. Destinasi eklektik di sepanjang Jalan Braga, Gedung…

  • “Ms, sorry I sit at No. 38K”, I greeted a tired looking young woman who leaning her head against the window. “Excuse me, can I exchange it or not?”, began to guess that she was Javanese because of her typical accent. “Sorry, Ms. It’s better to sit according to seat number which be shown in…

  • If you heed the existence of taxis, then leaving Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to downtown isn’t an easy matter. On the other hand, returning to NAIA from downtown turned out to be the same. I hope that the airport train at NAIA is immediately built. I asked a young man at a 7-Eleven minimarket,…

  • I still enjoyed nostalgia by enjoying a serving of Busog Meal Tuna Omelette in one of 7-Eleven outlets at Epiphanio de Los Santos Avenue side, packaging rice which became my daily food when visiting Manila four years ago. Cheap, only 32 Peso I could enjoy lunch amid the hustle and bustle of Manila. At later,…

  • Like in my first visitation to Manila on 2016, this time my transit visitation would go to the same first place, EDSA LRT Station. For some reason, EDSA LRT Station was always the first place I pointed to when looking at the city’s transportation map. As if that place is the easiest way to reach…

  • Philippine Airlines flight number PR 685 smoothly landed on one of Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)’s runways. This large-bodied aircraft gallantly taxied to the apron at Terminal 1. This plane should have landed at Terminal 2, because it was in the process of being renovated, the terminal was diverted. Terminal 1 itself is the mainhub…

  • If you want to feel the sensation of riding the first commercial airline in Asia, then take Philippine Airlines, then you will automatically be honored to have boarded the oldest airline in the Asian continent. And Philippine Airlines became the 28th airline which I boarded throughout my journey as a backpacker. Starting with a small…