Goodbye Vietnam

Long time blogging to you all. Sorry for the true BuzzBenz fanclub for keep waiting me for a long time. Actually, I think nobody came to the website unless I told them to see. So if the true fans are out there, please say hi or comment this blog. I'll be very appreciated. Anyway, I just want to act like this web got many fans. The reason why I haven't written anything here a long time is my life is so normal, nothing special came to my life. I'm just a normal office worker in Thailand who wake up in the morning, go to work, come home in the evening or in the night, sleep, and wake up again to do my routine thing. This is my life.

Until this, you might guess that there is something not normal happen to me for sure. Then, I wrote something on this blog. Yeah! That's right. So here is my thing.

Someone knows that 2 of my friends and I will have a cheap and low budget trip to Vietnam next week. I will tell you the whole story for our trip. I heard from my friend that Air Asia has a promotion offering free air ticket. I want to talk a little about my friend who brought this promotion. He loves backpacking. He searched the information in the internet and travel to many places in Thailand all by himself which I respect that. One of his trips that I think very challenging for me is he went to Loas and Vietnam with his brother. They travelled from Bangkok by bus to Loas about 10 hours patiently sitting on a bus and travel all in Loas staying in the hostel without air conditioner, and from there they went West to Vietnam. They travelled starting from Hanoi and went South to central of Vietnam and then flew back to Bangkok. This trip was about half of the month or a month. I don't remember. But I'm very respect how patient and brave he is. Actually, there are many adjective words that I respect he for this trip but I cannot say it in English. Sorry.

OK. Let get back to my story. My friend said about the free air ticket promotion from Air Asia. So I ask him what place he recommended me to go. He suggested Vietnam. After talked with him, I immediately called my 2 friends to plan for the trip because this promotion is very popular. We were afraid that ticket would be sold out. So we concluded to go to Vietnam on 18-21 May and the price for air ticket is 3,400 Baht per person. We're very excited about the cheap ticket is.

The thing seems OK until about last 2 month. I was nominated to train in somewhere on Earth for 4 weeks and it fell on the week to Vietnam. At the same time, one of my 2 friend who joined this trip also had an important business arrangement to do in that week. But I still had a hope because my training had not confirmed yet and my friend would ask someone to do for him. 1 month has gone. God listened to my prey. Fortunately, my train was cancelled but my poor friend cannot make it. He has to go with no exception. I used word "poor" in term of sorriness, not in money term. Actually, he's very rich. He buy brand name bag, like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and etc., one a month or 2 a month. So now this trip left only 2 guys. So we planned and select hotel, actually should be hostel. We read the topic in the internet about the trick and the bewaring things in Vietnam. Finally, we got the satisfied hostel and price. We will pay about 2,500 Baht for 3 nights hostel, taxi transfer to/from airport, 1 day tour to Halong bay, 1 day tour to Tamcoc, and the water puppet show. That's quite cheap, isn't it? I'm so excited to tell my friend that we got the price. But immediately, he said he got a bad news. He must attend the special session for the group ordaination every Saturdays starting from next week which is the week of the trip and he cannot miss any of the session. That means he cannot go to Vietnam. So now only me left alone. It's very hard to decision to go that alone or not. I have an experience travel alone in New York and Singapore. But Vietnam is different. I'm not sure that I can survive in the cheating situation or not. I heard many bad thing about people there did with the tourist. But 3,400 Baht which already paid is much for me. I can buy many from that money. I weighted the good and the bad going there. And I concluded that I won't go there and keep the money for the tour to treat my family in some hotel here which will be worthy. So that's it for my story.

Hongkong Disneyland

The last highlight place that I visited on my Hongkong's trip is Hongkong Disneyland. The latest disney's theme park opens on Lantau Island, Hongkong. Hongkong Disneyland consists of 4 main parts; Main Street, Adventureland, Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland. Each part is decorated and represents a different theme. Although it's not as big as the other disneyland, Hongkong disneyland is a good place for a disneyland's starter because you can enjoy the whole park within 1 days. I was lucky that I needn't to queue. The most favourite thing in Disneyland is the show. All the shows are performed from the heart of the performer which everyone can feel that. So if you want to feel a spectacular and fun with a small budget, just come to Hongkong Disneyland. For the castel picture, it's not on my camera. If I got them, I will show to you.

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The Giant Buddha

Many many time, if you search for Hongkong information, you will see the picture of the Giant Buddha on the top of mountain. In this trip, I have an opportunity went to pay a respect to the Giant Buddha. The Giant Buddha is the world's tallest outdoor seated bronze Buddha sitting serenely atop Ngong Ping plateau amid spectacular mountain scenery. I took a bus to The Giant Buddha passing the winding and narrow road with fast speed driving. If you don't want to touch a moment of the death, they offer the nice panoramic viewed cable car, Ngong Ping 360, for another choice. Haha! Don't afraid. I'm just kidding about the bus's experience. It's not dangerous at all. So here are the pictures that I took from the Giant Buddha. Sorry that I took against a sun light.

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A Symphony of Lights

First day in Hongkong, I joined with my friends, who came to Hongkong before me with a different filght, in the evening. After we met, we celebrated our first day in Hongkong with a spectacular multimedia event, A Symphony of Lights. It's the world's largest light and sound show covering more than 30 building on both sides of Victoria Harbour. The lights from the building dance amazingly along with a song. Althought the show takes about 15 minutes seem to be a short moment, I'm very impressed with the show. Unfortunately, I did not bring the tripod. So I could not take the beauty picture. But there's some picture I chose for you.

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The City of Hongkong

Last week I went to Hongkong, one of my loved city in the world, with my friends and together with my family. This is my first time I'm in Hongkong with my friends. The weather is very nice. The shopping goods are very cool. Everything looks perfect for this trip.

I visited the Victoria's peak, Disneyland Hongkong, A Symphony of Lights, The Giant Buddha, and The Wong Tai Sin Temple. And the important thing is shopping which everyone should not miss when you come to Hongkong. I posted some photograph of my trip for a nice city scene of Hongkong. For the rest details of the trip, I'll tell you later on.

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