Cameron Highland, Pahang

Hubby and I went to Cameron Highland with my auntie and cousin last week.

Cameron Highlands is a highland region located about 121 km east of Ipoh and about 214 km north of Kuala Lumpur, in Pahang, Malaysia. At 5,000 ft (1,500 m) above sea level it is the highest area on the mainland, enjoys a cool climate, with temperatures no higher than 25 °C and rarely falls below 12°C year-round.Apart from the cool weather, key attractions in Cameron Highlands include a butterfly farm, strawberry farms, rose gardens and vegetable gardens.

Hubby & I

Travel to San Francisco

Although it is still 2 months away from my birthday, but I'm now starting to think what I want for my birthday! I love traveling. Hubby and I are going to Australia on April 2009. However I'm now wondering where we could go after the Australia trip.

I remember a friend of mine told me about traveling to San Francisco. It was a lovely place.

San Francisco is well-known for its diverse ethnic and political communities, hilly terrain, world-class restaurants and scenic beauty. It is located on the West Coast of the USA at the tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and includes significant stretches of the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay within its boundaries. San Francisco is very famous for its hills. There are more than 50 hills within city limits. San Francisco is the home of the 50s beat generation, the 60s flower power students, the 70s gay rights movement, the 80s culinary revolution and, of course, the 90s technology boom.

Hubby and I prefer to travel on our own, so we need to book a san francisco hotel in advance.

Hotel abri is a modern day urban oasis located in the heart of San Francisco's Union Square, just steps away from the top names in fashion, dining, nightlife, art and theater, as well as the Financial District and Moscone Convention Center.

So, a traveling trip to San Francisco is my next destination with hotel san francisco!

Air Asia free seat without fuel surcharge

Again, Air Asia's giving out 500,000 free seats. What's more for this time? They are not even charging the fuel surcharge. Booking starts from 12 Nov 2008 to 16 Nov 2008 with travel date from 22 Jun 2009 to 24 Oct 2009.

Domestic destinations offered:
Alor Star, Bintulu, Johor Bahru, Kota Bharu, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Terengganu, Kuching, Labuan, Langkawi, Miri, Penang, Sandakan, Sibu, Tawau

International destinations offered:
Bali, Balikpapan, Banda Aceh, Bandung, Bangkok, Brunei, Chiang Mai, Clark [Manila], Guangzhou, Guilin, Haikou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Krabi, Macau, Makassar, Manado, Medan, Padang, Palembang, Pekanbaru, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Shenzhen, Siem Reap [Angkor Wat], Singapore, Solo, Surabaya, Tiruchirappalli, Vientiane, Yogyakarta

Hurry up, book a ticket for your holiday!

Chinese book exhibition

There are a international Chinese books exhibition organizing in MIECC, MINES Resort City from 14th Nov - 23rd Nov. I wanted to go for a visit, but since last few months hubby and I travelled a lot, so I think I have to forget about it for the time being. We spent too much travelling!

Anyone who like to read chinese books, go and have a visit!

Kuala Lumpur’s 5-star hotel - One World Hotel

Hubby and I went to Kuala Lumpur during the Deepavali, to meet up my auntie’s family from Kuantan. We stay one night in a 5-star hotel located beside One Utama Shopping Mall named One World Hotel.

It’s really fabulous. The interior design was stunning. Hubby was reluctant to go out of the room for shopping. The room was equipped with a 42” LCD TV and internet access, three phones inside the room with one of it in the bathroom!

The hotel lobby is decorated with flower in the morning, nicely decorated flower!

I wish this could change into my house, so that I could stay here forever!

Cheap Aussie dollars

Hubby and I will go Australia in April, 2009. We’ve bought air tickets during Air Asia Free Seat promotion in mid-year 2008. I’m planning way long before the date, asking travel agencies to quote us ground trip.

I’ve also checked with money changers last few months, which let me know that the rate is $3.20. That means I need to use RM3,200.00 to buy Aussie $1,000.00.

Recently, my friends told me that Aussie is dropping. They advised me to buy it earlier to avoid it going up again. I check it out in Ipoh’s money changer, rating $2.50.

During the trip to KL in Deepavali, we found that a money changer in One Utama Shopping Mall’s selling at $2.46.

Gosh, we didn’t bring that much of cash with us! So hubby called our brother-in-law for an emergency help! He banked in the money to my banking account immediately. In the other hand, we withdraw it directly at the ATM machine! Thanks a lot for his help indeed!

We changed Aussie $1,000.00. I’m not sure whether this enough for us. But, since we would bring our credit card along, I don’t think we’ll face much problem.

So, go and change some foreign currency now if you were to go travel to foreign country! This would probably save you a lot!

Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Genting Highland

This is one of the interesting place to go if you are in Genting Highland, I took some pictures in it to show all of you. There are many more to see inside it. So, if you are going to Genting Highland, don't miss it out!

All who touches it will pregnant???

Ball and chain

Used throughout thistory to restrain prisoners without incarcerating them, prisoners wearing ball and chain were often used as free labor. Believe It or Not! Chained gallery slaves helped explorers to chart the Seven Seas.

Genuine English Prison Doors

Assemble with iron plate and weighing several hundred pounds, these doors were remove from Strangeways Prison in Northern of England. The prisoners at Strangeways Prison had no sunlight, no contact between each other except when their food was passed thru the central sliding slot.

Mortuary feast figure

Referred to as a “ampatong”, this huge figure carved from one solid log is used in celebrations of death and rebirth on the Island of Borneo.

Genuine shrunken head

Believe It or Not! This head came from a normal sized person. The Jivaro Indians of Ecuador claim their enemies’ heads as symbols of bravery and display them, reduced to fist size, as war tropies.

Naga buffalo bone breastplate

The Naga people of Burma have long ben regarded as fearless warriors and bloodthirty headhunters! Shown here is a chieftain’s ceremonial breatplate necklace made from the shoulder bone of a large water buffalo, and featuring carved depictions of eight decapitated trophy heads. Believe It or Not!

Giant chippendale chair

Billed as “The World’s Tallest Man” Johann Petursson of Iceland became quite wealthy and liked to decorate his home with fine furniture customized to fit both, his budget and his 8’8”, 425-pound body!

Antique child’s dentist chair c. 1904

Built in 1904, this two-thirds sized dentist’s chair prevented children from escaping, or moving very far, enabling the dentist to perform his tasks.

Torture chair

This is a replica of the feared seat of agony from the Royal Castle of Nuremberg. One can imagine how easy it must have been to extort confessions from naked victims who were strapped and bolted onto this excruciating painful chair.Believe It or Not!

The world’s luckiest chair or good luck at Genting

Many societies believe horseshoes are symbol of good luck and in some countries, gambles believe touching a horseshoes will increase their chances of winning. Here at Ripley’s we invite you to take a seat in the world’s luckiest chair – A chair made entirely out of lucky horseshoes – in an attempt to increase your luck. Go ahead and take a seat – it might just off later.

The original siamese twins

Born in 1811, Chang and Eng unkers, world famous Siamese twin were bound together at the breastbone by a band of flesh and muscle less then 3” long! Believe It or Not! Chang had 10 children and Eng had a family of 12!

Megalodon shark jaw

The prehistotic Megalodon shark, a relative of today’s great white shark, grew to a length of 45 feet and had teeth nearly 7 inches in length! The Mgalodon was bigger than the average WWII fighter plane, and their jaws were large enough to bite a small car!