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Exploring the Clearwell Caves

The Clearwell Caves is an iron ore mine at Clearwell in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. It is still an operational mine, which much of it functioning as a mining museum. There are 2 aspects to exploring the caves, via the visitor center where nicely laid paths and guard rails allow you to explore 9 caverns...
Americas

On the Alcatraz (The Rock)

You should be no stranger to the "The Rock", with the island being featured in many movies, TV shows, cartoons, books, comics, and video games alike. Located in the San Francisco Bay, The Rock (Alcatraz) is an island about 2.4 km from the shores of downtown San Francisco, California. It was a maximum security prison, a military...
Americas

San Francisco Legion of Honor Museum at Lincoln Park

Legion of Honor Museum (Link: Museum website) The California Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum is a Fine Arts Museum located in Lincoln Park, San Francisco and is the largest public arts institution in the city. The name is used both for the museum collections and for the building in which it is housed. Architecturally, I find...
Americas

Golden Gate Park, Music Concourse and De Young Museum

Golden gate park and de Young Museum Golden Gate Park in San Francisco is a large 412 hectare rectangular urban park located on the north western part of the city. Comprising mostly public park grounds and lakes, it is over 5km long spanning east to west, about a kilometer north to south in height, bounded by Lincoln Way...
Americas

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...
Americas

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...
Americas

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...
Americas

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...
University

Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit 2011!

Gong xi fa cai! What other better way to welcome the year of the rabbit than a back to back Chinese new year feast for 5 consecutive days? And I thought last year's 3 day steamboat affair was good. I guess it's get better this year knowing where are all the parties are. Before Chinese new year, (1st...
University

The Cambridge student diaries- 2nd term of sophomore year.

The Cambridge student diaries- 2nd term of sophomore year. Hey mum, shez, It had been sometime since I last wrote a decent update to you and dad, so I figured I do one now since I have some time before bed, juggling between a modest 4 hours of sleep, a project presentation and a judging panel in 5 hours...
University

Start of the Cambridge student diaries

I noticed the obvious lack of updates here on the site for quite sometime. Don't worry I am not dead. But pretty much caught on other forms of work, travel which kept me away from my computer at time. My move to microblogging on twitter also placed me on a different light for update on this site...
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...
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...
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...
Europe

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...
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...
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...
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...
Middle East

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,...
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...
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