Travel Blog

I am an energetic backpacker from Hong Kong and travelling is one of my favorite hobbies. I would like to travel to countries that I never visited as much as my limited budget would allow me to. This year AirAsia launched a new route that goes from Hong Kong to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and since I believed AirAsia to be a low cost airline that offered value-for-money tickets I decided to give a try. I chose the morning flight to Kuala Lumpur and selected an evening flight to return back to Hong Kong because this was the most convenient time to leisure travelers. It was wonderful!

On the day we left to Malaysia the staff allowed me to select my seat on board. She let me have a window seat so I could see the beautiful view of the sky. Besides this, the crews were happy, friendly, kind and helpful when serving us. Most importantly I arrived at Kuala Lumpur n time. Since I am frugal traveler, I chose a budget hotel near downtown Kuala Lumpur so we would be close to most of the tourist attractions. Kuala Lumpur is a lovely city and it’s a food paradise – I could not help but keep eating durian, asam laksa, Indian pancake and many more spicy and tasty dishes. I enjoyed myself so much during the week, visiting China town in Petaling Street. I am a sun worshipper and so I made an excursion to Penang Island, which is known as the pearl of the Orient.

While here I visited Tanjung Bungah and found it to be tropical paradise. It was so relaxing to just lie on the beach until the sun went down sipping on fresh coconut and enjoying the mild sea breeze. At night, my friends and I went to celebrate at one the clubs before we headed back to Kuala Lumpur the next day.

To me life is about doing what I enjoy – traveling for learning and leisure. And now I understand the philosophy of using a safe, comfortable low-cost carrier.

Something about Egypt stirs the mind and soul. At least, it did mine. I had always dreamt about Egypt and read romantic mystery novel like Death on the Nile, or that absolutely unputdownable book by Amelia Edwards, called A thousand miles up the Nile-an engaging travelogue about a British lady who sailed the Nile in 19th century Egypt in a local dahabiyah, a kind of houseboat with sails. The way Amelia Edwards travelled down the Nile describing what she saw is, in essence, what every true lover of Egypt dreams about.

I was determined to be another Amelia Edwards. I would fill in the gaps (I always lamented the fact that there were no illustrations in her book) by taking photographs galore; perhaps, provide a glossary and pronunciation guide for good measure. I had to translate my thoughts into action before they just became sterile reminders of a fertile imagination.

A quick calculation and some e-mails ensured enough lucre and some travel information. From the latter, it was clear that there were no direct flights from New Delhi to Luxor from where I had to take the Nile cruise. I decided to take a flight to Cairo and then board Egypt Air, which operates regular flights to Luxor every 45 minutes. Another option was an air-conditioned train from Cairo to Luxor, which, I was told, was most comfortable.

Why a Nile cruise, I was asked. And I say to all first-time visitors to Egypt that if you want a classical experience that takes in the temples and the pharaonic antiquities, plus a first-hand perspective of rural Egypt, with its mud-brick homes, farmers tending their fields with wooden plows and donkeys carrying produce, then this is the way to go.

A group of scientists found on a survey that having sex with someone who you dislike gives immense pleasure. A girl from North California says she has been having excellent relations with a chap she hates much. Another one avers that he had been seeing his girlfriend for a few weeks, the sex is brilliant; she’s just not very nice. He feels that the problem is only outside the bedroom, not somewhere that he particularly strays. It is been psychologically proved that sex with someone you enthusiastically dislike is the purest form of intercourse, untrammeled because it is by obstruction such as emotion, or a desire to make one in any extent likeable. When a sexual scenario is concerned, it has all the upsides of a sole-night plunk without any of those daunting fretfulness that is said individual may, in fact, be a serial killer.  You can predict that she is geared up to hop into bed and you very well know that you are. It is always to remember that it is not bothered how you approach sex, but how you practice sex. Use condoms to have a healthy sex life.