As one of Jakarta best hotels, Shangri-La Hotel Jakarta offers luxury and Indonesian hospitality in the very heart of Jakarta CBD.
Located just behind Jl. Jendral Sudirman, Jakarta busiest main road, this 5-star rating hotel practically is serving business oriented customers in weekday, while on weekend left for leisure seekers.
Reaching end of 2009, travelers around the world are getting more problems in this December.
Heavy snow in America and Europe delayed almost half the scheduled flights in major airports like Washington DC, Frankfurt, London Heathrow and CDG Paris. Those airports became very crowded and almost like chaos.
For those still plan to travel in this season, consider using train as first option. Train schedule is more reliable although in bad weather like heavy rain and snow.
Exception is on EuroStar trains, which connect London with Paris and Brussels via Channel Tunnel. Last week, 6 trains freezed in the middle of tunnel for more than 10 hours because of electricity problem. Thousand of passengers left without electricity and food supplies in those trains and thousands more in each stations are unable to depart for several days.
Melaka / Malacca is a historic city located on south of Kuala Lumpur. Its position facing Malacca straits has made it an important city during eighteenth century and until now.
Melaka itself has limited city transportation means. There are several bus lines serving this city. You can take city bus from Melaka Central (this is central bus terminal) to Mahkota Hotel and Hospital for only RM 1.50-2.00. Bus is not well maintained but quite reliable. But for tourist your the best bet is to catch tourist panorama bus. It is a double-deck bus (I believe imported from London), red color, and traveling across tourist spots.
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As a traveler and Internet-depended guy, I really like to travel to Singapore. Wifi hotspots are almost everywhere, and the best of it – it’s FREE. Wherever you are: malls, hospitals, tourist spots, most of them covered by wifi using name Wireless@SG. By registering myself from GSM phone (from my home country) I can get a free wifi pass for whole day use.
How to get Free wifi account to access Wireless@SG hotspots? You need to switch your preferred network to SingTel (codename: STM). Then dial *168# using mobile phone. In short time you’ll receive sms contains username and password to connect. The account can be used until midnight of the day, and you need to ask for new account again on next day.
But in Malaysia, thing gets different. Free wifi is rare from government, except offered by hotels or cafes. As I stay in Melaka (Malacca), there’s no such thing called free Internet. So how to connect to Internet in Melaka, or any Malaysia cities? You need a 3G capable mobile phone.
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Selamat datang di JavaMilk Travel Series. Kali ini saya akan menampilkan artikel “Panduan Jalan Hemat ke Singapore” yang mudah-mudahan menambah informasi bagi Anda yang belum maupun sudah pernah jalan ke Singapore.
Mengapa Singapore? Saya sudah menulis beberapa Travel Series, mulai dariPanduan Jalan Hemat ke Eropa, Jalan Hemat ke Hong Kong dan Macau, Panduan ke Taiwan, rasanya kok tetangga yang dekat ini malah belum ditulis. Awalnya melihat banyak website lain yang sudah membahas negara kecil ini, sehingga saya tidak terlalu ingin menulisnya. Namun setelah sekian lama, rasanya saya perlu menelurkan sebuah travel guide juga tentang negara ini, Singapore.
I wrote previously about the launch of Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol novel that city of Washington DC is preparing to be flooded by curious tourists.
Well, several historic places are mentioned by this novel and some are put as focus places where the story happened. So I compile and write this post to give you illustrations about places mentioned in The Lost Symbol novel.
The House of The Temple
Temple Library room
This library’s reading lamp mentioned in the novel as an optical illusion of double pyramids.
After Dan Brown The Da Vinci Code
Then, after the book became the best-seller, his previous works are also become hit. Notably is Angels & Demons
The Lost Symbol
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