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The city is considered one of the most visited in the world; there are many reasons for this. One of Bangkok’s magnetic draws is the smorgasbord of shopping opportunities here. There is a vast range of product options and many-many shopping venues throughout the city. A Mesmerizing Voyage To One of The Ultimate City Destinations Besides the major shopping malls of Siam Paragon, Central World, Terminal 21 and the Platinum Shopping Mall a new mall was opened last year. EmQuartier Bangkok is a huge shopping centre selling premium brands, affordable brands and an enticing range of local brands. Here there are several restaurants to satisfy a whole raft of personal palates. For those visiting between the months of June and August, advantage can be taken of the bargains on offer during the B...

Known as 'The City Of Heroes", Surabaya is Indonesia's second largest city and one that draws both domestic and International visitor and tourists.   Surabaya with its surrounds has become the centre of economic activity for East Java. Here business is transacted between industry and business people form all over the world. There are also many attractions here that appeal to leisure tourists. Not least of these are interesting landmarks, monuments and well-preserved heritage buildings. One of these is Balai Pemuda Surabaya or the Surabaya Youth Centre built in1907 and originally owned by a Dutch organisation known as ‘De Simpangsche Societeit’ that founded the building as a social venue for dances and party events for the colonisers. Today, the north side of the building is given o...

  Both dynamic and cosmopolitan, the city of melbourne is regarded as the cultural hub of Australia. It is the home of fine victorian-era architecture, extensive shopping districts, galleries, theaters, street art, park and lovely gardens. Here visitors are welcomed to experience the brighter side of city life just the way melbournians are.   There are many reasons to visit and re-visit Melbourne. The second most populated city in Australia is in fact a fine place to live. Melbourne has been selected this year yet again as the ‘most livable city in the world’. This is now the fifth time in a row that the city has been so selected. Citizen of Melbourne— call themselves Melbournians in this multi cultural and ethnicaly diverse city. They are avid sports fans and gladly share t...

This metropolitan and sophisticated city never fails to impress the millions of visitors it receives from all over the globe. Singapore is a destination that always has something new to explore and enjoy. Jakarta is a capital of commerce in Indonesia, and only little known as a tourist destination. But for those wanting to feel something of a different side to this city there are some very worthwhile sites to visit that expose some of the long history of this city’s endless story.  The first stop of my journey through the city was Jakarta’s National Museum of Indonesia. It is an archaeological, historical, ethnological and geographical museum located in Central Jakarta. Established back in 1868, this museum holds an enormous number of prehistoric, anthropological, and archaeologic...

A Splendid choice of destination for those looking for a cultural experience rather than a fancy stay in five-star resorts, Yogyakarta is considered the most important reference sites of java's culture and art. This region has the highest cencentration of historical and natural site anywhere in Indonesia. It Has become a destination of insightful holidays. Entitled ‘Daerah Istimewa’ (DI), Yogyakarta is a centre of Javanese culture and heritage with more than a few days of ancient sites and natural landscape to visit. I dedicated my recent trip to Jogjakarta to explore some of the understated places that live just a bit below the radar of international and national tourism. The first stop of my trip was at Gumuk Pasir Parangkumo, a vast area of soft sand formed by the natural phenomen...

Memories of my trip through the heart of Indochina have become indelible reminders of just how fascinating this area of South East Asia really is. Each of the countries visited here presented their own unique set of characteristics to me. The di erent people, the changing food and contrasting social structures all worked to make my targeted destinations throughout the area more interesting and enjoyable. I travelled to the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Siem Reap in Cambodia and Luang Prabang in Lao, Laos’s capitol Vientiane to Vietnam’s Halong Bay. All fascinating in their own right and more so because of the cultural makeup within which I found them.