So, I have finally finished reading Across Many Mountains – a book based on the true story of a Tibetan family who had to leave their peaceful lives at a beautiful monastery in Tibet to flee the oppression inflicted upon them and the people of Tibet by the Chinese regime. The first few chapters of the book narrate mostly about the early life of Kunsang – from the day she was born until she was left orphaned at a very…
I’ve always been an avid reader of Air Asia’s in-flight magazine Travel 3Sixty. This article they featured on November 2015 issue is one of the best so far – narrating the experience of the magazine’s editorial visit to Tebedu near Kuching in Sarawak. The idea of a visit came about when a school teacher named Larrie Jessika wrote to Travel 3Sixty to apologize for stealing a copy of the magazine because he really wanted to share the stories about the…
So, there’s this place called Padang that I went to as part of my trip to West Sumatra recently. It was more like the access point to Mount Kerinci – the highest volcano in Indonesia for which we went to West Sumatra but it wasn’t after the climb that we got to explore this beautiful coastal city. Padang is not really that big and obviously less busy compared to – say – Kuta in Bali and probably Surabaya in East…