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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Pangkor Laut Resort

 

PLR is located on the privately owned island of Pangkor Laut situated off the West coast of Peninsular Malaysia. The island is reached by the resort’s boat from the Marina Island Pangkor Jetty.

The distance from Kuala Lumpur is about 250 Kilometres.

On arrival in Marina Island,you are required to register at the Resort office, you will then be escorted to the ferry jetty for your transfer by boat to the Resort.

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And once you arrive, feast your eyes with the amazing views and surrounding of the resort….

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Our room – Hill Villa

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View from the Hill Villa

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Bath House Ritual – this is an must not miss experience. Whatever treatment you have you will go through a 45min bath ritual which involves a cold Malay bath, aromatic steam for relaxation, Japanese bath house, a 38 degree hot bath in a Japanese Hot Spring & then a Shanghai body scrub! All the while being offered hot & cold Japanese teas. And then your treatment starts!

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Food

Thumbs to 80 yrs old Uncle Lim the chef of the restaurant aptly called “Uncle Lim”. Superb delicious food. We had our meals for 2 nights at this place. The Breakfast was really good with a huge variety of cuisine to choose from, Indian, Chinese, Malay, Western etc etc.

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Amazing Sunset @ Emerald Bay

Emerald Bay is situated on the other side of the island, you have to take a 10mins shuttle bus to get there. The beach is clean and the its Emerald in colour indeed. Nice comfy chairs to lounge the whole day by the beach.

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Stunning sunset as you can see below. With a view to kill, it will surely bring me back ….

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Friday, May 16, 2014

Keukenhof, Netherlands

Keukenhof, also known as the Garden of Europe, is the world's second largest flower garden following Dubai Miracle Garden. It is situated in Lisse, the Netherland.

Keukenhof is opened from 20 March to 18 May 2014 only. I was lucky to be in Amsterdam for business and took the opportunity to visit this amazing garden with also 7 million flowers!

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Shopping Paradise–Schippol Airport, Amsterdam

IMG_1052 I had to control my urge to shop around here as you might just carried away with the sales and offers they provide. Best airport to have a transit flight as well….so many facilities like no other, shower rooms, bag storage, spa…list goes on  and on.