My Travel

My Travel Log

2007-09-15T03:28:00.000-07:00

Chennai
Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5 Part6
Part7 Part8 Part9 Part10 Part11 Part12

Mumbai
Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5

Sydney
Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5 Part6

Canberra
Part1 Part2 Part3

Wellington
Part1 Part2

Berlin (New Update)
Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5 Part6

Brussels (Latest update--3 to 9)
Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 Part5 Part6 Part7 Part8 Part9

Coming Soon....
Beijing

Japan

7 Brussels Part 9

2007-09-09T02:59:00.001-07:00

My hotel room, change from another as the lock of the door is faulty. can open without key.

on the way to airport.

7 Brussels Part 8

2007-09-09T02:54:00.001-07:00

Grand place in the night. In spring the day is longer and We have wait till 10pm the sky then turn dark.

7 Brussels Part 7

2007-09-09T02:48:00.000-07:00

b Manneken pis , read below for the legend.

Chinatown,

7 Brussels Part 6

2007-09-09T02:44:00.000-07:00

Grand place , the heart of Brussels

7 Brussels Part 5

2007-09-09T02:40:00.001-07:00

Taking train back to Brussels, ended the one day trip at Brugge.

This is the church where the princess held her wedding.

I love mussels.

7 Brussels Part 4

2007-09-09T02:35:00.001-07:00

The Chocolate Shop that I bought a few boxs of chocolate.

This should be the tallest tower there.

Tulips... Tulips

7 Brussels Part 3

2007-09-09T02:30:00.000-07:00

Brugges, a very nice place to visit.

The air is very clean, cos no much car around. hmm should say hardly see any car. but can hear the kick-cock kick cock-kick horse cart.

Swan living in the park

Guarding its egg nest.
Taking a sun bath

walk along street is like going back a few century.

7 Brussels Part 2

2007-09-08T03:32:00.001-07:00

Nice looking vegetable

Grape. So many grape.

Taken in train while jouney brussels to Brugge

Very Tall tower.

7 Brussels Part 1

2007-09-08T03:15:00.000-07:00

Apr 04, Spring, At Zurich airport transit to Brussels

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House along the road, while journey to Hotel

Blosom bloom along the whole street

At the market place

Fruit stall in the market place. b

6 Berlin Part 6

2007-05-29T06:19:00.001-07:00

b Taken on the train while on the way to Potsdam.

A human status

See the pipe piper? where is the rats and the children?

Way back to hotel passing Checkpoint Charlie

6 Berlin Part 5

2007-05-29T06:14:00.001-07:00

Night view of The Siegessäule.

night view of the Brandenburger Gate.

The hotel bed room i stay in

A coffee corner in the room
the bath room
Hee, u know what is this, right.

Shower area.

The hot dog man with his moblie stall atAlexander-platz

View from the TV tower.

night view of the Statue of Frederick the Great

6 Berlin Part 4

2007-05-29T06:09:00.001-07:00

The background is a large picture.

The train station beside the Zoo.

Inside the tram station. hmm... very quiet

A nice neon light bicycle, below is the reflection of the water.

a small garden a distance from the Bombed church.

Flower blossom, tell us it is spring.
Remains of Church bombed in WWII

6 Berlin Part 3

2007-05-29T06:05:00.001-07:00

Musicial perform
Quiet Night.
An art scripture make up from crushed metal trashes.

Help!!! Bear.. Bear

I love "Titanic", Hmm.. I mean chocolate.

"parliament house"
Spring.. Spring..

6 Berlin Part 2

2007-05-29T05:59:00.000-07:00

Berlin wall become nice deco

This line is the border line

The remains of the Berlin wall.

6 Berlin Part 1

2007-05-29T05:55:00.000-07:00

April 2004, Spring.

After about 15 hours flight from Singapore, At zurich airport taking a transit plane to Berlin. This is my first time aboard to a plane from ground. Luckily the rain just stop.

I'm in Berlin!!! Good morning Berlin!!! Sunday morning, the road was clear.

From the air, I can smell that the spring is coming.

Schloss und Park Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg Palace and Park)

The golden godess of victory,is one of the most imposing landmarks in the city, and reflects the city's history in remarkable fashion.Originally constructed on the Königsplatz (now the Platz der Republik, in front of the Reichstag) as the national monument to Germany's "Wars of Unification", it was built to plans by Heinrich Strack from 1864–73 to commemorate victory in the Prussian-Danish war. After further victories against Austria and France, it was supplemented with Friedrich Drake's 8.3m-high golden Victoria (also known as Golden Else). During the Third Reich, a fourth column drum was added, bringing the total height to 67m. In 1938/39, the monument was moved to the Großer Stern crossroads in the Tiergarten, as part of the redesigning of the "Capital of the German Reich".Surviving the war without major damage, it was restored in the 1980s

The Brandenburg Gate, Berlin's only remaining city gate, is the true symbol of the city. Because it was situated in the no man's land just behind the wall, it also became symbolic of the division of the city. After the Fall of the Wall, the Gate was reopened on December 22, 1989

The Gendarmenmarkt, this place will look famliar, if you watch Jackie chan moive "Travel the world in 80 days".

5 Wellington Part 2

2007-05-29T05:38:00.000-07:00

180 view from a friend's house, very nice feeling. And have very nice aroma on the air. Very relaxing. Notice most houses is bulid on the mountain.

5 Wellington Part 1

2007-05-29T05:18:00.000-07:00

Mar 2004, From Canberra-> Sydney Airport-->Wellington. Transit time too short, no chance to shop around Sydney :(.

A view from the plane while landed.

A status in the city area
In the museum, Sorry for the poor photo, this is chinese earth quake detector.

Huge Fossil from the past (don't know how many mill year). It's bigger than a car tyre.

LOOK!!! there is a Dragon on the roof!!

A sea view from the hill

View from the plane, can see that the New Zealand is very rocky and mountainy

4 Canberra Part 3

2007-05-28T21:43:00.000-07:00

At the apple farm. This is havest time!!

Look green but very sweet. yummy..

This is my first time seeing an apple tree. Wonder how newton sit under one?

An odd shape pear

Huge red rose.
Pink Rose
A butterful on a wild flower

My best shot of the trip.

Plane in the war memorial hall

Glass painting, memory of the soldier.

A View of the Parliament Houses from the front of the memorial hall.

4 Canberra Part 2

2007-05-28T20:35:00.001-07:00

Wow, you will never see this in Singapore.

Black Swan? swimming in the lake

the parrots make a lot of noise that wake me up.

Passby the War memorial Hall
At the top of the mountain top
Going down the road of the hill

Horses along the road.
A visit to a nusery.

Nice clay pottery for garden
I Love this snap.

4 Canberra Part1

2007-05-28T20:28:00.001-07:00

Mar 2004, A short Canberra trip. Canberra is a city in a park, a landscaped capital carefully designed to transform with the four distinct seasons. But beneath the golden autumn leaves and spring blooms is a vibrant city, spread amongst parks and stretches of green open space that are perfect for relaxing and enjoying the fresh air.

Brisbane Airport for transit
A very bright day.
A view for the plane on the low cloud

Way from airport to the hotel.

It is autumn, but still flower bloom in some part of the city

Falling leaves on the floor
This was a Sunday morning, hardly see anyone at shopping mall.
The Ram status were lonely, me too feel that.

Canberra Museum and gallery but closed with chill glass door.
Luckily, there are some flower warming up the city
Look this the Parliament Houses
A Closer view

Sydney Part 6 (Wonderland , Wildlife park & opera house )

2007-05-24T23:33:00.001-07:00

Yes, the flower shot is taken at Sydney Wonderland. From central, we taken a train then bus to here about 1hours+. Forgetten how much is the train fare, quite X. :(

360 Viking, remember to secure all your items. it "freeze" on the air

Roller Coaster ride

A young couple we meet, don't know how to pass the photo to them. (if you are in this photo download yourself. heee hee)

Next to Wonderland was the wildlife park, We love this place.
Sleepy Koala bear

Love to hugging the tree.
Wombat, a very cute mammal.

A cute boy playing water at the fountain.
Sydney Habour bridge

The Opera House.

Sydney Part 5 (Night & flower)

2007-05-24T22:57:00.000-07:00

Do some shopping and took some night shot here

This night view is from the casino, did not went in cos we find it pretty troublesome(Secuity check).

Some flower shot

Guess where the flower from? see part 6.

Sydney Part 4 Dh & fish market

2007-05-24T22:54:00.000-07:00

After the Aquarium, We took a walk at Darling Habour. This will take us the whole afternoon. there is a Imax threate here and we bought the ticket for the night 3D show, very inpressive we enjoy it very much. The next morning we took a tram to the Fish market. Early bird got the worm, but this large bird got the fish. :)

At the fish market, there are fresh fishes and seafood(there were live abalone) for sale also there are really cooked food so we took a few cheeze lobster as our breakfast. Hmmm.... yammy..., so filling that we skip our lunch.

Sydney Part 3 (Central & Aquarium)

2007-05-24T22:46:00.000-07:00

We reach Sydney city around 8pm and searching for the studio apartment that we have booked, Stress stress, cos need to check in before 9pm as if the reception closed we can only check-in in the morning. Luckily we make it in time, but we have not taken our dinner.We took our dinner in a korean restautant, just across road of the studio apartment.

In the very morning, we return the rental to Henz branch in Sydney city. And take a walk back to the apartment

Along the way, we pass by the park. I think the name of this is Hyde park.

The time is about 8am and we can see a few people reading book or taking their breakfast here. Before their work.

Photo taken at a cross juncation. See not evil, hear not evil, talk not evil

Sydney Aquarium a must go place and is just 15 min walk from our apartment

Sydney Part 2 (Port Stephen)

2007-05-24T17:28:00.000-07:00

It was a good morning after a good night rest as did not catch much Zzzzz on the plane and have a long drive + touring around at blue mountain. After breakfast we check out from the service apartment, we are on the road again heading to Port Stephen.

We reach Port Stephen around 1pm. Our main objective coming here was dolphin watch. But the Dolphin watching tour only available in the morning. We had miss it. Therefore we drive round this nice port, shopping, photo taking.It is very relaxing and quiet place to tour.

We take a took a nice platter of seafood for dinner and take a good night rest. In the morning, we check out from the room and leave our baggage in the car boot. Then went for he Dolphin watch tour. The sun was strong and wind was chill, the feeling was good. We manage to watch the dolphin swimming the sea but they are too shy for me to take their snap.

After the dolphin tour, We wash up at the toilet because of the water splashing during the tour, our face taste salty. Then we proceed to Sydney.

Wild flower on grass, Telling us it is spring.

Strong sun and chill wind

Along the way to Sydney, there are huge wind powered genarater.

Sydney Part 1 (Blue Mountain)

2007-05-24T17:21:00.001-07:00

SEP2003, 5days + 2days Sydney F&E Tour.2 days countryside + 3 days City stay + 2 extended days city stay. I wish can extend even more, but. hai... Taking 6 hours felight from Singapore to Sydney. Arrived at the Airport around 7am. After taking a coffee break. We get the car key from Henz car rental (in the package). After settle with the car rental and insurance, it is about 9am there we started to move on the road to our first distination the Blue Mountain.

The Blue Mountains in New South Wales embrases 26 townships in an area of 1433 square kilometres. The townships are situated from 50 to 120 km west of Sydney and are within 1,000 square kilometres of this World Heritage listed National Park.

It was declared a World Heritage park in November 2000. It was nominated for its outstanding natural values, including the biodiversity of its plant and animal communities, its vegetation, which is dominated by Australia's unique eucalypts, and for the beauty of its natural landscapes.

It was so named because, from Sydney, It look blue. It is clad in vast forests of eucalypts (commonly called gum trees), which in the hot sun discharge a fine mist of eucalyptus oil from their leaves. The mist refracts light, which makes the haze look blue at a distance.

The Skyrail,

An old mine, but not gold mine,

The Three Sisters are 922, 918 & 906 metres tall, respectively.

There is a Legend that three sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe. The beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, but tribal law forbade them to marry. The brothers were not happy to accept this law therefore decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.

As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to return the ladies to their former beauty, the sisters remain in their magnificent rock formation as a reminder of this battle for generations to come.

Mumbai (Bombay) Part 5

2007-05-23T19:55:00.000-07:00

Mumbai

Night view.

Mumbai (Bombay) Part 4

2007-05-23T19:51:00.000-07:00

Snap snap!! Snap Snap!!
The sun getting stronger and stronger

Take the last snap and leave the place. Because the beggar are awake and started their job
Walking back to the hotel

nice old taxi power by natural gas.

Mumbai (Bombay) Part 3

2007-05-23T19:48:00.000-07:00

This a Status stand in a park where the laughing exerise is. Many of them keep laughing and laughing. By the way the park is fence up, i guess is to keep the beggar away.

This is THE TAJ MAHAL HOTEL MUMBAI. It is a very big hotel

Mumbai (Bombay) Part 2

2007-05-23T19:43:00.000-07:00

Due to jet lag, I wake up st 5am and decided to take a morning walk the the famous Gatway of India, which is walking distance from the hotel i stay. Along the way I saw many begger sleeping on the pathway.

This is the Gatway of India is a 26 metres high stone archway, the first landmark of Bombay a visitor sees when arriving by ship. Designed by Writtet in the 16th century Gujarat style, it was built to commen/morate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to India in 1911.

Another view

The sunrise high slowly
I watching sun rise at the Gateway of india

Now, here can the sun light. let my video cam have a few snap

Mumbai (Bombay) Part 1

2007-05-23T19:31:00.000-07:00

DEC2002, from Chennai took a domestic feight to Mumbai, Landed around noon time. The city was called Bombay for much of the last four hundred years. The origin of the name is obscure, but is often said to come from the Portuguese phrase bom bahia meaning "good bay". The name Mumbai has been used in the main local languages for as long, and is ascribed to the local goddess, Mumba (ai means mother in Marathi). The name of the city was changed to Mumbai by an act of the parliament in 1997.

Some people joke that the name Bombay (Bomb Bay) is changed to Mumbai because there are too many bombing case during the year.

This is the Hotel I stay.

With 2 single beds and marble flooring.

The door way

The toilet

with bath tub.
This is the old fashion lift.
I really don't dare to use it. Luckily manage to get a room at 2 floor.

Chennai Part 12

2007-05-23T05:17:00.001-07:00

You can see that there are more photo than word, because there are too many those sculpture and image. And in the past there were actual 4 part of this rich culture of South India. And this is the only left, 3 of them were submerge into the sea.

While returning back to the hotel, passby some shop that provide sculpture and image carving.

An artist carving the rock.

A fruit stall along the road.

This is my bed, cover with slik. Initally was just normal white cotton cover, but in the morning before leaving the room, I put about S$1 of worth of tipping on the bed.

Chennai Part 11

2007-05-23T05:03:00.001-07:00

There are many monuments which well maintain, where each sculpture and image still succeeds in conveying a message of beauty and harmony.

Chennai Part 10

2007-05-23T04:59:00.000-07:00

This huge rock balance on with it's small surface on the ground. which is quite unusual .

Compare the size of an adult at the left.

There is a Legend on the pond that a large snake living here in the past.
Another view of the pond

There are many beautiful Art piece on the rock like this.

Most of monuments were carved from large solid rock.

Another monument.

Chennai Part 9

2007-05-23T04:34:00.000-07:00

I reach Mamallapuram around 12pm. It also known as Mahabalipuram, this ancient sea port was built by Emperor Mahendravarman Pallava in the 7th century. In those day, from here ships left for countries in south-east Asia and the Mediterranian carrying not only traders but people who emigrated to countries like Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia. Over the passage of time Mamallapuram ceased to function as a port but its glory lived on in its finished and unfinished temples and monuments. Time and natural forces have wrought changes onthe solid rock surface of these monuments but each sculpture and image still succeeds in conveying a message of beauty and harmony. Mamallapuram bears testimony and pays tribute to its Pallava artists and to the culture of South India. Among the places of interest are Arjuna's Penance, Krishna Mandapa, Mahishasuramardini Cave, Mandapams, Pancha Rathas, Shore Temple and Varaha Mandapa.

Chennai Part 8

2007-05-23T04:32:00.000-07:00

Behind the door is a mirror. And the Most Dangerous animal in world is yourself (human being)

Proceeding to Mamallapuram.

Chennai Part 7

2007-05-23T04:26:00.000-07:00

Chennai Part 6

2007-05-23T04:22:00.000-07:00

Chennai Part 5

2007-05-23T04:19:00.001-07:00

Inida god status

Several species of Indian and African crocodiles and alligators bred in captivity are kept here in open pools. Visitors can view the reptiles from close but safe proximity. There is also a small snake farm here that conducts demonstrations of venom extraction.

Corba Show in the replite farm

Chennai Part 4

2007-05-23T04:15:00.000-07:00

Giant man with a family.

VGB is some like a wonderland
New bulid Status

This status is real, it is facing the Sea

Merry go round

The Status man, he stand there and don't move

Chennai Part 3

2007-05-23T02:12:00.000-07:00

At enterance of the Vop Golden Beach

Very Tall, Big man over 2m height

Store a the road side
Sweet and Bakery shop

Look This a very old car

Not much car on road

Chennai Part 2

2007-05-23T02:09:00.000-07:00

They using this as drinking water which really shocking me!!

This a Railway station, In india railway is a cheaper way to travel than air. Railway can be very messy cos there are all sort of people around

Two young boys at the beach.

Man on the street.

This a the "boat" use for fishing, Those fisherman is risking their live on rough sea with this "boat"

Chennai Part 1

2007-05-23T01:58:00.001-07:00

DEC 2002, This was my first time travelling so far from Singapore to Chennai (South India). In this trip I have better understand that why people alway said that travel 1000miles is better than to study 1000 books.

I travel on SIA airline for about 6 hours. landed at Chennai Airport about 11pm(SG time2am).

As this was my first trip, I use Canon Video Cam which bought special for the trip. Thinking that Video Cam with Still photo funcation can have double use. That why the photo is poor, and some time very blur due to low light.

There are 12 parts, most of them are photo. If you are interested in travelling to this rich culture Country, feel free to browse all (still got many photo did not upload). There will be tips for the travel.

Some interesting scene (part1-2). Trip from Hotel-VGP Golden Beach(part3-5)-Crocodile Bank (Part5-8)- Mamallapuram temple (part 8-12)

Some highlight on interesting part1, part 8(Most Dangerous animal in world , Must see!!!) part 8 Beauty of sculpture and image .

This is very common transport here, cheap and fast.

Side by side with a bicycle.

This is a Tea Stall across the road to the Hotel I stay.Btw it is 6:30am, so bright.

Tea is a must drink for Indian. Long queue for a morning drink

Power Sub station, very rare in Singapore.

In the evening, saw this wedding funtion when on my way back to hotel.

Take a snap again, And they are take me to the beach.

This are fisherman with their "boat".

They were back from their fishing.

Carry back their "Boat" and havest.