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Travel Snapshot – Kuala Lumpur Pavillion shopping mall

cecil — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:25:25 +0000

The best way to visit a city or country is to study whatever in’s and out’s of the place before you depart. For those travellers who wish and is going to visit Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia, here is a travel snapshot of the latest icon in the city, the Pavilion. Pavilion is one of the largest exclusive shopping complex in the heart of golden triangle of K.L., along the busiest road in town, Bintang Walk area of Jalan Bukit Bintang. It was launched last year and has recently added a giant crystal bowl fountain in front of its main entrance. This beautiful and chinese styled giant crystal bowl was crafted in China and brought into the town this year to further enhance the aesthetic of the mall.

You could find all those world renowned boutique brandnames in Pavilion shopping mall which sure will fulfill your tastes somehow. However, for those travellers who stopped travelling abroad temporarily due to the highly contagious Inflenza A (H1N1), this photo should be able to please you at least… – Travel Feeder.

Top 5 Most Expensive Cities In The World 2009

cecil — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:58:03 +0000

This is an update post to the Top 5 Most Expensive Cities In The World 2008. It is still the vision of Travel Feeder to feed travel tips to travelers around the world so travelers could visit their dream cities with the least budget and highest value, even to the most expensive cities in the world. According to Mercer’s 2009 Cost Of Living Survey highlight released recently, Moscow, ranked 1st for 3 consecutive years, has dropped to become the 3rd most expensive city for expatriates, being knocked down by Tokyo as well as Osaka of Japan for the first time. Tokyo was only 2nd in year 2008’s survey. For those who doesn’t know about Mercer’s Cost Of Living Survey, Mercer’s survey covers 290 cities across six continents and 41 cities this year instead of 143 cities last year. The survey measures the comparative cost of over 200 items in each location, including housing, transport, food, clothing, household goods and entertainment. It is the world’s most comprehensive cost of living survey and is used to help multinational companies and governments determine compensation allowances for their expatriate employees. Here are the Top 5 Most Expensive Cities In The World:-

1) Tokyo, Japan

2) Osaka, Japan

3) Moscow, Russia

4) Geneva, Switzerland

5) Hong Kong, China

You would notice how much fluctuation is the ranking if compared to year 2008 top 5 expensive cities. This is mainly caused by the fluctuation in financial and currency due to the gloabal financial crisis last year. How many of these cities that you have conquered with least budget and greatest pleasure? We would be glad to hear your experience by commenting this post. For me, I would choose one with the least Influenza A (H1N1) case…. - Travel Feeder.

Top 5 istock Photos Captured By My Nikon D60

cecil — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:50:41 +0000

I’ve talked about earlier on how you could sell your travel photos and raise some money for your next travel through istockphoto. I have joined istockphoto sonce February 2009 and have 42 photos uploaded and approved so far. With the strict requirement of istockphoto, those photos captured by my Panasonic Lumix FZ28 could not be accepted unfortunately. Compact camera’s smaller image sensor size creates noise in most of its photos which are unaccpetable as stock photos. Unless I reduce the image sizes to about 70% of its original which I’m a bit lazy to do for each one of them, I used my Nikon D60 instead.

After having 42 photos in my istockphoto’s portfolio, I love to post my top 5 istock photos so far here for your comment. These 5 photos were captured in RAW by my travel camera- Nikon D60 and were processed and uploaded to istockphoto since I joined last February.

“Fortunately”, these 5 photos were picked and downloaded by interested buyers last 2 months. And off course, I earned some royalties for each downloads. Just comment on these 5 photos if you like to. You may love to download them for your perusal or screensavers…

Child eating ice cream. Click the photo to buy or join.

Kuala Lumpur skyline at dusk. Click the photo to buy or join.

Lotus flower pond. Click the photo to buy or join.

Construction site. Click the photo to buy or join.

Pedestrian crossing sign. Click the photo to buy or join.

The other great reason to submit your photos to istock is that they will review all your photos for whatever defects like artifacts, lighting or composition. This will improve your photography skill a lot! At least it is what happening to me…. You may love to follow me to become a photo contributor of istockphoto. Click here to join istock so I could earn some referrals fees. If you like these photos, you would also love to see more photos from my portfolio in istockphoto here. – Travel Feeder

All photos above were captured with Nikon D60

Travel Experience To QinHuai Scenic Area and Nanjing City Wall

cecil — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:49:15 +0000

On the 6th day of our packaged travel to South Yangtze China, we were still in Nanjing, the 4th city we travelled after Shanghai, Hangzhou and Suzhou. We had a bad sleep last night in this hotel in Nanjing (never bother to remember the name also! ). Frankly speaking, besides of this Nanjing’s hotel, all other hotels that we stayed on our whole trip were very good in terms of cleanlinese, comfort, design and also choices of breakfast. I have to admit this is one of the few advantages of packaged tour where, if you book with established and recognised travel agency, you could always rest assure of good accomodation as promised. Or if you travel by yourself and book budget hotel online, you will need those trusty booking agent online.

Eventhough we had to wake up early morning at 7am, and with the bad sleep, I still felt quite energetic. Thanks to the extremely good weather and those reasonably good varieties of local styled chinese breakfast. Though we had the same type of varieties (almost) over the last 5 mornings, I still like it.

This morning on the 6th day, the last travel destination we visited in Nanjing was the ancient Ming Dynasty City Wall of DongShuiGuan (东水关), the left-over historical remains or vestige besides the QinHuai river and across the FuZiMiao pedestrian district we visited the night before.

Nanjing City Wall or Dong Shui Guan has been named as the National Heritage Site by China in 1988. “Excuse me, do you mind taking a photo for 5 of us?”

This city wall remains is one of the best kept heritage in the world. With original length of 30km, it is also claimed as the longest city wall in the world and 60% of it are still standing!

Though part of the outer wall has collapsed over time, it still stand really tall from ground level…. so called city wall to protect the city.

We visited only part of the stretched remains in QinHuai Scenic Area across the river. Until the 6th day, I had to be gratitude on how lucky we were during the trip. It had not been raining since day 1 until the last day of our trip to China! And what’s more, we had the brightest and clearest day on the 6th day.

Air temperature raised back to 10°C on that day (we visited Nanjing in early winter) with bright sun and blue sky. Perfect photo shoot out weather!!! My Lumix FZ28 had to work really hard on that day!

This scenic area features, besides the city wall, a recreational garden where elderies or retirees relax and make friends.

Babies and grandchildren could also be seen everywhere at the park.

Posing in front of the 600-year-old city wall was just another pleasure…

Let’s talk about the construction of Nanjing City Wall. The construction of the wall spent 20 years to complete in 14th Centuries, spearheaded by ZhuYuanZhang of Ming Dynasty. The whole wall is sitting on granite and limestone foundation. The vertical brickwall was constructed with carefully picked sources of factories from various part of ancient China.

Because of that, you could see all bricks were stamped with the name of factories. It was believed that by doing so, any brick failure could be traced back to the factory and the mason would be chopped head!

On top of the wall, we could oversee the river of QinHuai, once popularly known as “red light district” of China. FuZiMiao pedestrian district could be seen at far end.

QinHuai River is also famous with its tourist cruise. These chinese design boat we once rode in HangZhou West Lake could also be seen here parking at the quay.

Old folk with her granddaughter, looking at cruise lining up at quay….

We spent quite a lot of time shooting photos around the area before we left for our next hoax of the trip, the jade factory…. You may prefer to subscribe to Travel Feeder’s RSS feed for free update of the stories. Or you may consider to sponsor for my upcoming travel- Travel Feeder.

All above photos were captured by Panasonic Lumix Fz28

Travel Snapshot – Kuala Lumpur Petronas Twin Tower

cecil — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:29:10 +0000

Every June and July, since 1997, Kuala Lumpur would be blanketed in haze from forest fire around the region, especially Indonesia. No exception for this year. Air quality dropped rapidly recently and visibility in KL is less than 2 KM and Twin Tower is dissappeared in haze! I MISS KLCC TWIN TOWER!

Only then I realised I have taken some photos of the pair of “sweet corn” couple of months ago when the sky was still clear and blue. So for those travellers who came to Malaysia and KL recently, trying to take a good shot on KLCC Petronas Twin Tower but found dissappointed because of the haze, stay cool, I posted this snapshot of KL Petronas Twin Tower for your memory. Cheer up! For some other twilight scenes of KL city skyline, you may visit my istock page. – Travel Feeder.

The above photo was captured with Nikon D60

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