A BLUES NEWS !!

Hey !! Whatss upp !!

How has life treat you, fellas ???

MINE ?!?!

He treats me warmly, though sometimes he also gives a cool breeze.

SOOO... 

imma tell you a sad news.

i won't post any post 3 to 4 days due to a school's retreats.

:((

Don't MISS MEEEH

I'll be BACK SOOON !!

*teheee* 

MUACHH :***

New York City

A Welcome !

It’s hard waking up on a sunny day in New York, with the Hudson River stretched out before you, and think of anywhere else you’d rather be at the moment.

 

 When New York decides to turn on its charm, it really brings its A-game

Washington Square Park is gorgeous any time of year, but it seemed to be smiling even brighter this day.

NYC College

Being a tourist in your former town can be a real treat: You’re familiar enough with the place that you know where you’re going and how to get there, but you also have the unique opportunity to explore neighborhoods you’d never venture into as a resident.

My New York was all tall buildings and industrial spaces.

 

I think I like its New York best of all. You can have your downtown with its trendy restaurants and velvet ropes. I’ll take the view from up here anytime.

 SEE YAA ♥♥

Kyoto, Japan

Hey YAA !!

News flash: Japan is expensive, y’all. While a few of our ship friends stayed in guest houses around the country (marginally cheaper), we didn’t decide to go to Kyoto until a couple days before we docked and, by then, all the prices I found on Hotels.com were exorbitant.

 

 We checked into the hotel, and seeing as the skies were heavy with rain, caught up on all of our Internetting until they cleared.

 

Still, as soon as the rain stopped coming down, we hit the pavement and took a walk out to Kiyomizu-dera, one of the most well-known temples in Kyoto. Fact: The city has 1,600 temples and 400 shrines, so even if the weather had been in our favor, we wouldn’t have made it to even a fraction of them.

The temple was just about a 20-minute walk from our hotel; however, even while following the map, we found ourselves on a side road surrounding by cemeteries.

 

The road was steep and we knew it led up to the vicinity of Kiyomizu-dera, but the further we walked, the more tombstones we encountered. It was a bit eerie—particularly, as we never passed another pedestrian during our walk—but quite the sight.

 

By the time we finally found the temple, we’d nearly lost all the light.

Plus, the place was closing down so we didn’t even get to go inside (which was actually fine by me as I’ve seen a whole lot of temples and other religious sites in my travels).

 

It was a worthwhile endeavor nonetheless, though, as we looked out and saw all of Kyoto lit up at dusk.

 

BYE

CIAO ♥♥

Galapagos Islands

Now, I have been to every country in Central America, many of them twice or more, but Brazil aside, South America is completely uncharted territory for me. Ecuador is a pretty large country, and transportation on land isn’t that efficient—buses take a loooong time and all flights route through Quito—so I initially had planned to go along to the Galapagos Islands.

oh yes ! it's galapagos island !!

What I will tell you is that even though the Galapagos Islands are just 600 miles from Manta, it wasn’t the quickest of trips. We left the ship around 8am, took a bus to the local airport, an hour-and-a-half flight to the islands, a bus to a barge, a barge across a waterway and then another bus a little more than an hour to our hotel in Puerto Aroya, arriving around 3pm. Yes, it was a bit of a trek!

 

But worth every minute of it, of course. After all, sometimes the most scenery is that enjoyed while in transit.

 

We only stuck around the hotel long enough to get checked in and drop off our bags before reloading the buses and heading out to the Charles Darwin Research Station. After all, the entire purpose of coming to the Galapagos Islands is to mingle with the wildlife, right? And mingle we did.

 

Small camouflaged lizards darted in front of us on the dusty road, as cacti flanked the path.

 

One thing I wasn’t expecting to find on the islands was a desert landscape. But in parts, I could have sworn I’d teleported to Arizona. Of course, there was one iconic creature we encountered who convinced me that we were, indeed, in the Galapagos Islands. Can you guess who it was? Stay tuned for the answer….

Byee ♥♥
*smoooch*

The Taj Mahal, India

The thing about the Taj Mahal is that it’s one of those places that looks just like the photos. The structure was built in 1631, completed in 1654—a feat that required the skill of more than 20,000 laborers—and designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983. However, the Taj is undoubtedly one of those boxes every traveler needs to check off when going to India.

नमस्ते, Namaste

Once you arrive at the Taj, you must purchase your tickets and either walk the kilometer (ish) to the gate or take one of the on-site trams. To avoid being harassed by the many shop owners trying to lure us inside their storefront and guilt us into buying cheap crap we don’t want—and because we had a couple of older travelers with us—we opted for the latter. It wasn’t unlike the process to get to Disney World (only with less singing, more hustling).

 One important thing to note before visiting the Taj is that pretty much everything is banned.

In short, EVERYTHING is BANNED

 After we had gone through the ticketing point, I kept waiting for a peek at Her before we actually arrived—I assumed we’d see Her from a distance, and then inch closer and closer, the vantage point changing with every step we took—but She was more or less shielded from the public eye by a rather substantial gate.And then we passed through said gate and BAM! There she stood in all Her centuries-old glory.

 To enter the mausoleum, you must take off your shoes. While the line was not short and snaked its way around the front side of the building, it went relatively fast and we were inside within 15 minutes. Once there, we spent less than five minutes padding around in our slippers before going back outdoors. I think the most impressive beauty of the structure is from the outside anyway.

Mass Crowd

 While the monument was more or less exactly what I was expecting, there’s no denying it’s one spectacular piece of work, particularly when you get up real close and fully inhale its intricate, minute features.

Here another pictures of Taj Mahal, from different sides and angles

LOVE YA,

BYE ♥♥

Jerusalem, Israel

Jerusalem, capital city of Israel, is the Holy Land for the three religions: Islam, Christian and Judaism. Jerusalem has become Israel popular tourist destination, which attracts thousands of religious pilgrims every year. And YES !! sometimes pictures speak louder than words...

Morning Fog

Yad Vashem, Holocaust memorial

Ratapan Wall

Sion Hill

Zaitun Hill

Daud's Tomb

Coenaculum

Getsemani

Via Dolorosa

Golgota

Local Market

SEE YA !! ♥♥

Hong Kong

I take so many photos because my mind gets cluttered with trips and destinations and reading other travelers’ blogs that oftentimes I forget the majority of small details about each journey: the people I meet, the funny signs I see, the cafes and restaurants I visit, the cuisine I eat.

Helloww !!

 I believe this is what they call being an armchair traveler: I feel as if I’m going somewhere new, as if these experiences never happened to me but to somebody else. I’d never had any desire to visit Hong Kong. In fact, all of China in its vastness and crowded cities held absolutely no appeal to me. But in a place as vibrant as this, the energy is simply contagious.And it’s one of those places that takes on an entirely new personality at night (unlike San Francisco, which goes to bed come 8pm).

Let's take a sneak peek of HONG KONG, Here you go :

one of  biggest night market

Cultural Richness

♥♥♥

CIAO ({})