100 days, 33 flights, 22 cities in 13 countries and 50,000 miles or 80,000 km later, I just finished the ultimate 100-day self-planned travel extravaganza to Maldives, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, packed with amazing activities, such as snorkeling in Maldives & Great Barrier Reef, Zip trekking in Queenstown, Helicopter hike on top of Franz Josef Glacier in New Zealand, climbing Ayres Rock and Sydney bridge.
Today, I have the fortune to join my ex-boss to attend the wedding of the son of a millionare in India. We arrived at around 7pm which is way too early for the inidan wedding. The groom was waiting in his white-horse-carriage outside of the venue. It took his carraige an hour to move like 200 m into the entrance of the wedding venue. With this pace, the whole wedding ceremony can easily be a 8-10 hrs celebration. The venue actually looked very nice and everything was decorated with fresh flowers and candles. From what i could see, it probably had 1000 workers working in the venue!! I got the invitation during my 100-day travel, so it would be very inconvenient for me to bring along a suit & tie so i decided to go shopping for a traditional indian costume.
Hello, everyone. Today, I formally announce that I have submitted my application for the Vacationer position with Transat Holiday. Here is my application video. Enjoy and remember to vote for me!
Today, i met up with my friend, Dylan who is a recording artist, TV host and personality and now turned Director of a media group in Malaysia. Dylan hosts many travel program for Malaysian TV. His company organized a mini-version of the SYTYCD and he was one of the judges. Therefore, i managed to get a front-row seat and i stayed behind to watch the whole program. Contestants are pretty talented. Check out this contestant. Judges said not only he can dance with his body, he can also dance with his face.
Twin Towers used to be the tallest building in the world. Even thought it longer is, the shiny silvery exterior together with the Muslim-inspired shape of the buildings make it very noticeable during day time. It is true that no matter where you go in KL, your eyes will always be on the twin towers because of the reflection of the sunlight. Don’t think the KL tower lost its sparkles at night. It became two huge spotlights that light up the whole city. The skybridge linking the two towers are open but tickets will only be sold each morning. People started lined up early, like 6:30am even though the ticket offices only open at 8:30am. I had a super quick breakfast at the hotel then took a taxi to Twin towers to line up for tickets. I have been to KL so many times and this is the only time that i managed to get up early enough to try to get the ticket. When i arrived at around 7:45, there was about 60 people in front of me. I was thinking, its alright. It shouldn’t take too long for the line-up because you cannot choose the timing of the visit. Then it should be easy. I thought they would pre-print all the available tickets and when each person arrived at the counter, they just exchange the pre-print tickets with money. No, i was totally wrong. They waited each person to the counter and then started the ticket printing process. It really took me 3 hours to get my ticket for 4pm to visit the skybridge.
Line-up when i got there @ 7:45am
Lined-up for 15 mins..still smiling
after 1 hour
After 1:30 hr
After 2:00 hr
Encouragement from Staff to continue line-up
After 2:30 hr
After 2:45 hr
Finally time to go up the skybridge. Actually before this, i had been to the top level of the Empire State building, Effiel tower, Tokyo tower, CN tower and Shanghai World Financial Center. I am actually excited because i actually lined up for 3 hrs to get my ticket. Check out the picture and video for the nice view i got up there. :-)
Arrived in New Delhi last nite and got a car and driver to show me around. Due to the very relaxing attitude over there, i ordered a car in the morning and finally a driver picked me up at 2pm..so i pretty much spent the whole morning + a few hrs waiting, waiting and waiting..This is my 1st day of adventure in New Delhi. Went to visited this amazing column..sorry dont know the name. I was a bit scared as there were so many people there. Indians paid 25 ruppees (US$0.60 to enter) while foreigners paid $6 for 1 ticket. Therefore, you pretty much dont see line-up for foreigners but the locals would need to line up patiently and usually got yelled at. anyway, i saw these obviously foreigners couple..thats Captain Rafael and his wife from Ontario, Canada. I of course initiated the conversation and they said i was the 1st guy they met in India that is from Canada. so they invited me to tag along with their tour guide. No matter where we went, always a big group of locals surrounding us, oh well..mostly for the blonde lady..and lots of people came to us and wanting to take a pic with us. Most of the time, they just wanted to be in the pic and didnt even want a copy of the pic even though we offered to email them a copy.
Then the driver took me to this lotus temple...very nice and calming with its design. But doesnt it a bit look like the famous Opera house in Sydney?
