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ExploreShanghai | Shanghai Metro map | ExploreShanghai

http://www.exploreshanghai.com/metro/
You can easily make use of their metro instead of taxis.

For those who love walking tours and trains like me!

Shanghai Surprise!

Start:	Oct 21, '11
End:	Oct 26, '11
Location:	Shanghai, China

Called that way because I had no plans of traveling or buying a ticket for Shanghai this month.

I was chatting with a friend in Malaysia. She asked if I was still interested in going to Korea.
I said of course - if there is a bargain flight available!

Surprise! (galing naman ng timing)
.... there was a zero-fare for both domestic and international flights from Cebu Pacific, and Korea had some open dates.

But I couldn't reach her again to ask if that schedule was ok with her as she went offline.

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For the longest time, I wanted to visit Shanghai due to the old movies I saw depicting it as the Paris of the East.

I thought also that I could probably face one of my fears - that of backpacking in such a place as China *cross fingers*

I am gulping here because for one, remember its just been recent about that Filipina in Bali, then there was that drug mule image Filipinos sentenced in China yet! and thirdly as a woman traveler who may do this again by myself...there are bound to be issues with language again. *sigh*

Well, fortune never favored the faint-hearted.

4 days ought to be enough for a first-time visit... (the schedules for leaving are tight)

and even if some people have just the idea that Shanghai is just one big city, I would like to delve into more than just the Bund and Shanghai's "big city" image.
that its more than the initial impression...

Hey, who wants to join?

Antics in Foggy Hong Kong & Cold Macau

Many thanks to Mike Maravillo for making this and posting it first in FB and then in Youtube so I could share his brainhild. He had titled this as "Epekto ng Lamig" or "Effects of the Cold".

Photos put together from Tian Tian Buddha, Po Lin Monastery and Macau in our trip on March 17-20, 2011.
What can I say? It was cold and we couldn't do anything else...

Kudos to -
Lem for his jumping like a grasshopper even if he had to invest in a lot of salonpas afterwards.
Liza for her flying witchy role and also to whoever owned that broomstick *grin*.
Sarah for her frog leap and cute poses.
Mike for his putting this together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XozJL87F0AM

A HK$2 Billion Production! The World’s Newest Most Spectacular Extravaganza!

http://thehouseofdancingwater.com/en/#/home

Discover Hong Kong - Official Travel Guide from the Hong Kong Tourism Board

http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/
Time to research an upcoming trip....my last trip there was just before the handover back to China...

Hong Kong Holiday (2011)

Start:	Feb 17, '11 01:00a
End:	Feb 20, '11 12:45p
Location:	HongKong, China

My last visit to HK was last century :-)

That was so far back that HK was still under British rule...hahaha!

This is really sudden...I got a call from a colleague in HP this morning (I missed her call 3 times already). Liza asked if a trip to HK this February...say 2nd weekend or something would be ok.

A split-second decision had to be made, even if I've not asked permission to take days off or checking if I had backup (because my teammate is out on vacation till mid January anyways)...I said, fine, just tell me the dates and I'd file leaves *cross fingers*

and there you have it...
another case wherein I have the ticket (and a debt to them for paying it beforehand) and the trip's details to be ironed out later...what fun!