Cheap Travel Idea: Tips (6)

It's school holiday now in Malaysia, however it is monsoon. Hopefully all the readers have a good plan so that the monsoon won't affect your holiday too much.

Earlier, we have posted a tips on predicting the weather while planning for any holiday. We hope that helps you.

While some of you might opt for driving, here we have some tips for you:

1. Tyres: Grip is important during driving and it is all depend on your tyre. Before start your journey, make sure your tyre is in good condition. If it is raining, underinflated tyre grips better.
2. Distance: It is incredibly important to maintain good distance from the vehicle ahead of you. Do not follow too close as you might not have a good time should anything happen. Do not think too far, given potholes also might not be avoided.
3. Lights: This is  another element that ensure your visibility. Your visibility on the road as well as your visibility by  other driver.
4. Wipers: Spending a little bit more on wipers can ensure our safety. It is recommended to change the wipers 6-9 months. Consider to use the liquid that help remove rain drop from your windscreen.
5. Air-condition: During rain, air-condition is vital to remove the mist on your windscreen. Still remember back in old days when I have to help my father wiping the mist away because during that day our car still don't have air-conditioning. This is dangerous actually.
6. Hazard light: Sometimes we can see driver turning on the hazard light in heavy rain. This is dangerous actually as other drive might have misinterpret. Just turn on your headlamp. This is good enough.
7. Surrounding: This applicable for normal driving as well. Always check side and rear view mirror to know your surrounding.
8. Braking: Do not slam your brake, instead steer out of the way first. This complement tips above where we ought to know our surrounding.

Cheap Travel - Melaka: Jonker Walk

Jonker Walk is one of the famous tourist attractions at Melaka. Located right in the middle of Bandar Hilir, it consist of rows of old building with shops selling antiques, handicraft, apparels, food and many others. Visit to Melaka will be incomplete without going to Jonker Walk.

The buildings at Melaka are well preserved. It makes you feel like back to old days when you are at Jonker Walk.

In addition, things sold at Jonker Walk are sold at reasonable price and makes them a perfect souvenirs to bring back home.

Jonker Walk becomes more happening at night. The road closes for all types of vehicles, giving spaces for all shop owners and local to open booth along the road.

During last visit, the most attractive item at Jonker Walk are the handicraft miniature and the expandable greeting cards.

Vespa miniature

The expandable greeting cards

The miniatures are sold at various sizes at really reasonable price. 

The Vespa and other miniatures are sold at RM12

Melaka trishaw are sold between RM8-RM25 depends on size

There are also varieties of greeting cards available with a very creative shape accompany each card. Each shape represents a very handful art and looks impossible to be done. However, the cards are cheap.

small - RM20

big - RM30

Various greeting cards available

The details of each card

Wedding card

Cheap travel idea: Tips (5)

For those who plan to travel by using airplane, here are some facts about travelling by air.

1. Do you know that travelling by air is the safest in the world?  One study found that the chances of dying in a scheduled commercial flight are one in 14 million in the United States. some say it is more like one in 11 million. However it is much less dangerous than driving
2. The safest airlines 2012 in alphabetical order are: 

• Air Canada
• Air France-KLM
• AMR Corporation
• Delta Airlines
• International Airlines Group
• Lufthansa
• Qantas
• Southwest Airlines United-Continental
• US Airways

Cheap Travel - Kedah: Langkawi

All of us know about Langkawi Island. Langkawi also has made itself into the world map. Le Tour De Langkawi, Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA). 

How much do we know about Langkawi? What is the main attraction there? What are the things to do there? Heheheh...just asking this question.

Let starts with shopping. Why shopping? As the picture above, everybody knows that Langkawi is one of the duty free zone in Malaysia. 

What does it mean?
It means we can buy cheap goods especially chocolate, cigarettes and alcohol. Some say it is also cheap to buy kitchen ware.

Where to buy them?

There are two main shopping complexes that you can find at Kuah Town (the main town of Langkawi) which are HIG (Hj Ismail Group) and Idaman Suri.

Idaman Suri from outside

For this post, the highlight is Idaman Suri. The new location of Idaman Suri, is  about 5km from Kuah Town. From Kuah Town, you will notice a big multi-storey yellow building on your right hand side. YESS. That is IDAMAN SURI!!!

kitchen wares

cutleries

Yes, as you can see there are a lot of kitchen ware. Its a heaven for real shoppers. A lot of brand available such as CorningWare, Arcopal, Corelle etc.

Even though dominated by kitchen-ware, Idaman Suri also have a variety of chocolates. The brands are almost similar compare to other outlets at airports around Malaysia but much  much much CHEAPER!!!

For example 400g Party Pack Snickers, normal price at airport would be RM27.90-28.90. Over here its RM14.90!!!

If you wonder how to get there, here I include the map:

cheap travel idea: Happenings (2)

Free seats

cheap travel idea: Happenings

MATTA FAIR SEPT 2012

This  fabulous travel fair has come back!!! Let's go to PWTC and grab our travel holiday.

The new entrance fee is RM4 instead of RM3 before.  :(

For those who plan to go, I think the best transportation is to use LRT instead of driving your car. The traffic could be ridiculous and the only  parking lot available is far away from PWTC.

Cheap travel idea: tips (4)

Have you ever get stuck in bad weather during your holiday???

Holiday is the time when we spend our time doing something we usually don't do to release our stress. Some like to spend time with family/ friends by the beach, picnic at waterfall or having some adventures. Most of the things we do during our holiday involve outdoor activities. Hence it is utmost to ensure the weather is fine for us to do such activities.

As for my experience, usually I will have an overview of the season that particular place. For example if I want to go to 4-season country, I have to see at what season is the best to that particular country suit to my activities. If I want to go to countries near the equator instead e.g.: Malaysia, Indonesia etc, I will see what is the best month to visit that particular countries. It is important as we do not want to get stuck in the rain.

 The question is where to get all that info???
 As for my experience, travelling book helps a lot to tell you about the destination that you are going to go. Just flip to the weather section (usually in the introduction chapter). It will give you the overview the best time to visit that place.

It sonuds tedious right? Of course I do have better choice. Just go to Air Asia website. Click 'Travel Info' at the left bar and 'Destination Guide'. Next just choose your holiday destination.

STEP1:

STEP 2:

SAMPLE:

Annual weather for Kuala Lumpur

Annual weather for Bali