After having explored most of the cafes nearer to Johor Bahru (JB) customs for a while, plus walking several rounds around City Square Mall, we decided to venture further out to Taman Mount Austin. This is one up and coming neighbourhood to check out while in JB, with several cafes and restaurants springing up. A …
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Maletsunyane Falls is a 192-metre-high (630 ft) waterfall in the Southern African country Lesotho. It is located near the town of Semonkong (Site of smoke), which also is named after the falls. The waterfall is on the Maletsunyane River and it falls from a ledge of Triassic-Jurassic basalt. Having heard about its natural beauty, I decided to venture out of the capital city Maseru to …
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Sahara desert? No Gobi desert? No Arabian desert? No Kalahari desert? No Atacama desert? No Well, we can also find such beautiful deserts in our region (Southeast Asia rocks! heh) without the need to travel too far. It was amazing to see the desert on one side, and the beach on the other end. So …
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With a strong urge to get out of the noisy city of Jakarta with its incessant traffic and bad pollution, I decided to make a day trip to Curug Nangka, a famous waterfall located at the base of Mount Salak. It is about an hour’s travel from Bogor, a city south of Jakarta, in the …
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Johor Bahru makes for a convenient day trip from Singapore to Malaysia. There is not much stuff to do there, especially if you restrict yourself to City Square mall. However, venture slightly further and you will be surprised to discover some hipster area or hidden food haunts in the city. How to go to JB …
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train from Riga to Sigulda How to go to Sigulda: Take the train from Riga to Sigulda. There are several daily departures and the cost for a return journey is €4.70. Alternatively, you can also take the bus. Sigulda is a small town in a hilly location, just under an hour away from the capital …
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75km to the northeast of Moscow lies the town of Sergiev Posad (Zagorsk in the Soviet era). Although it is nowadays an industrial centre with a population of over 100,000, its fame rests on the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergii (a Lavra is the highest rank of Orthodox monastery, and there are only four in …
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bridge over the Volga river on our way to Sviyazhsk the Russian flag fluttering in the wind The place where the Sviyaga River flows into the Volga forms the idea for Pushkin’s lively tale of the Island of Buyan. Sviyazhsk was built by Ivan the Terrible as a fortress for the siege of Kazan, and …
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Yekaterinburg, is the fourth largest city in Russia, with a population of 1.3 Million. Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723, and was named after Peter the Great’s wife Catherine I. From 1924 to 1991, Yekaterinburg was known as Sverdlovsks (Свердло́вск) , which was named after the Bolshevik leader Yakov Sverdlov. Yekaterinburg is situated on the eastern …
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