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There is a explorer in everyone of us. Traveling is a way of life. I enjoy exploring and documenting places I visit. Whether is it the path less traveled or indulging in the occasional tourist spot. There is also something new around the corner.

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Golden Gate Bridge, Promenade and Fort Point

No visit to San Francisco is complete without a visit to the bay side and the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. My trip there starts off from the northern bay area of the city from the palace of the arts. The area is served by MUNI buses services 28, 76, 43 & 30 from various points around the city, including...
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Up the Twin peaks and the Castro district, San Francisco

The twin peaks (also known as the San Francisco hills) are two high hills standing at an elevation of 281m at the geographic center of San Francisco itself. They are the the second-highest point in San Francisco, after Mount Davidson and is part of the iconic 49-Mile Scenic Drive in San Francisco, with one of the highlights being the...
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San Francisco Cable Car Museum, Palace of the fine arts and Exploratorium

Cable car museum The San Francisco cable car system is the world's last permanently operational manually operated cable car system dating back since the 1800s. The Cable Car Museum is a free museum showcasing this very history which the city is famous for. Situated along Washington Street at 1201 Mason Street just off Chinatown in the Nob Hill neighborhood...
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Chilling out in the city of San Francisco (Pier 39, Fisherman’s Wharf, Lombard Street, Cable Car)

Trip date 8th to 17th January 2011 It had been nearly 15 years since I last set foot in one of my most favorite cities in the world, San Francisco. My journey there across the Atlantic begins with my departure from Heathrow London on United with my travel group towards San Francisco international airport. After some minor delays with a...
Europe

Paris Disneyland Hollywood Studios

The Disney Hollywood studios is an independent park of focused more on the aspect of filming making and action, namely all the lights camera and action stuff. It is located west of the Disneyland Paris hub, next door to Disneyland Park at the heart of the resort in Marne-la-Vallée. This part of the hub aims to celebrate the art...
Europe

Disneyland Paris, France

Ahha, Disneyland, the land of smiles and happiness, this time in a different continent- Paris. Getting to Disneyland Paris is a breeze as the park is well served by public transport, namely using the region's metro rail transit. An journey just about over and hour's train ride out of the city limited (out of the 3 metro zones) will...
Europe

Paris Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral, Sainte Chapelle and La Conciergerie

This part of my blog focuses on the various key attractions in the city of Paris itself, namely the Paris Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame cathedral and the Sainte Chapelle. Paris Eiffel Tower The iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris is both a global icon of France and one of the most recognizable structures in the world. Also known as The Iron Lady...
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The Louvre museum, Paris

The Musée du Louvre or The Louvre Museum in Paris is one of the world's largest art museums, occupying about 652,300 square feet of total floor space spanning 6 full connected buildings. It is also the most visited art museum in the world and a French historic monument. The museum officially opened in 1793 after a conversion from a...
Europe

The city of Paris at Christmas

Trip date 26th to 30th December 2010 from London It's the Christmas holidays and what other better way to spend it after a nice Christmas dinner but to head across the channel to France for some frosty magic? Together with my backpacking friends, my trip to Paris starts off with a high speed train ride on the Eurostar from the...
Europe

Skydiving!

So it was a day like no other, why not try something different yet not so crazy at the same time, why not go skydiving? There is a parachute center not too far off north Cambridge (about 50km) which offer runway and skydiving services. Here people of all ages and experience come here for dives using the parachute center's...
Middle East

Chilling out at the Wadi wadi waterpark by the Jumeirah Beach

What other better way to chill out and cool off in the Dubai desert heat than a day out at a water park by the beachside and Persian sea? The Wild Wadi Water Park is situated along the beach side Jumeirah, Dubai, next to the Burj Al Arab and the Jumeirah Beach Hotel. The water park is operated by...
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Yas island, Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix, Ferrari World by Aldar Properties

Dubbed as the world's leading tourism project at the World Travel Awards in November 2009, Yas Island is a 2,500 hectares tourism city developed at a cost of US$36 billion by Aldar Properties. It is a self sufficient tourist getaway complete with hotels, shopping centers and will feature attractions such as Warner Bros Movie World, Ferrari World, and soon...
Middle East

Adu Dhabi, Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

Abu Dhabi is the capital and the second largest city in the United Arab Emirates. From Dubai, it's just about a 2 hour drive from the downtown Dubai and the international airport. My journey to the capital starts from from the Ghubaiba bus station, where you can get a regular express bus there for 15AED, which boils down to...
Middle East

Dubai Desert Safari

What do you do on a nice sunny afternoon with an SUV and a huge desert in your backyard? Go on a desert safari of course. Our ride for the day will be a gag guzzling Toyota land cruiser manual, good thing fuel here is dirt cheap like water. The desert is rather unforgiving in nature and the sun...
Middle East

Dubai historical sites and Dhow River cruise

This part of my Dubai trip focuses on the historical and heritage of the people here in the UAE. Places of interests here will be various heritage centers and museums of historical significance to the culture of the Dubai people. This experience is topped with a traditional Dhow river cruise down the Dubai creek right in the heart of...
Middle East

Up the Burj Dubai (Burj Khalifa)

The Burj Khalifa as of it's inaugural year in 2010 is the world's tallest building and tallest free standing man-made structure ever known to man. It was constructed over a period of about 3 years costing over US$1.5 billion with it's primary contractor being Samsung C&T of South Korea and is developed by Emaar Properties. It stands at over...
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The Dubai mall, aquarium and underwater zoo

No trip to Dubai is complete without spending a day at the Dubai Mall. Calling your mall establishment the "Dubai Mall" (Or the mall of the Dubai) does come with raised expectations of what to expect, being it to live up to it's name as a "national mall" or sort. My day there begins back out into the sweltering...
Middle East

Dubai city sights 2 (Emirates Mall, Festival city, Gold Souks & Sikkat Al Khail Road)

There are many modes of transport around Dubai, with the usual bus, trains and taxis, with the latter being my personal favorite due to the sheer number of them on the streets. You can never get along walking along the streets without a taxi finding you in less than a minute. And mind you, the taxis here are all...
Middle East

Dubai city sights part 1 (Madinat Jumeirah, Al Arab, Atlantis, Burjuman & Wafi)

Trip date 24th-28th September My trip to Dubai last year was part of a multi city stop over from Singapore terminal one onwards to London United Kingdom for my upcoming college term via Dubai flying Emirates. Emirates have very good airfare rates with the exception of rather picky baggage allowance for these stopovers in Dubai, presumably beckoning you to spend...
Middle East

Dubai and Abu Dhabi trip photos

Behold, a massive photo update of my recent trip to Dubai last week. It took my sometime to get all the photos uploaded and captioned while settling into my new room here in college. School starts tomorrow for me and it had been a really busy week settling uni administrative stuff as well as managing the freshers for the...
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