Road Trip 2016 (8th Day - Luang Namtha / via Boten)

Before we departed for Luang Namtha, We did almsgiving for the monk in front of our guesthouse.



Today we reach my destination, Boten, the border between Laos and China but unfortunately, the Laotian Immigration do not allow us to pass the border without getting out passport stamp. We do not have a Chinese Visa so it will be a problem returning to Laos without getting a Chinese entry stamp.

The drive from Luang Prabang to Boten and on to Luang Namtha was very much better than the first sector from Vientiane to Luang Prabang. Total distance was approx 350km, with excellent roads for about 300km. The first 100km after Luang Prabang roads were quite bad till Pak Mong but onwards the road were good.

Boten border is located inside a special administration zone managed by the Chinese. There are duty free, hotels and probably casino (we saw slot machines next to the duty free buiding) in this area. The default currency in this zone is Yuan.


Just a recap of our first sector (Kajang - Boten)
Estimated Distance - approx. 2800km till Pagoda CIQ Complex
Lowest Temperature Recorded on Car - 4'C (after Kasi junction uphill)
Longest Drive - Hat Yai - Amphawa (approx 860km in 11 hours)
Hotels
1) Hat Yai - (Dad calls it - Christian Hotel) (carpark available)
2) Amphawa - Smile House 3 (carpark available)
3) Vientiane - Riverside Palace Hotel (carpark not available - roadside parking)
4) Luang Prabang - Ammata Guesthouse (carpark available - annex building)
5) Luang Namtha - Thoulasith Guesthouse (carpark available)

Lunch : Fried Rice and Fried Noodles @ Oudomxay Bus Terminal
Dinner : Roast Pork @ Luang Namtha Night Market

Hotel - Thoulasith Guesthouse, Luang Namtha

Some photos taken today

Road Trip 2016 (6th Day - Luang Prabang)

We woke up early to check into the Villa Lao Wooden House along the peninsula but to our surprise the hotel told us that the confirmed booking by Booking.com could not be confirmed as he has no room available. This was a shock as we had booked with a confirmation SMS from Booking.com. The hotel wouldn't allow us us in and weren't too helpful as well. Now we are stuck again with room problem but fortunately, we found another hotel down the lane last night which has 2 rooms, so need need to get another 2 rooms in another hotel. We manage to confirmed the rooms in Ammata Guesthouse which was about 100m away with helpful staff, mommy did the check in while Dad and Uncle Vincent went searching for hotel. They finally found another hotel at B&B Guesthouse which is located about 2km away from our hotel. Guess we will not be booking with "BOOKING.COM" anymore in the future.

We took a drive to Kuang Si Waterfall which is located about 20km from Luang Prabang town. It has changed so much from the last time daddy was here about 15 years ago but it is still one of the best waterfall. There is a bear rescue centre within the fall compound with more than 20 Asiatic Black bears.

After the visiting the waterfall, we stopped at the butterfly park which is located about 300m before the parking area.

Daddy wanted to drive to Pak Ou cave in the north but Grandpa wasn't keen in taking the boat across and walking up the steps to the cave. We went back to the town and walked around the night market.

Lunch : By the Mekong River
Dinner : Pizza @ Coconut Garden, Sisavangvong
Hotel
1) Ammata Guesthouse
2) B&B Guesthouse

Some photos taken today

 

Road Trip 2016 (5th Day - Luang Prabang)

Kung Hey Fatt Choy!!! We finally arrived in the Unesco World Heritage Town of Luang Prabang!!!

It was a long drive today passing some of the most scenic route we have traveled so far. The distance between Vientiane and Luang Prabang was about 350km with road over 1900m with the lowest temperature recorded so far at 4'C. We stopped at Vang Vieng for lunch before climbing the mountain after Kasi with a total driving time of 7 hours, arriving at Luang Prabang approx 1830hrs.

As it was Chinese New Year, we had problem getting rooms as it was pack with Chinese tourist. We could only get 4 rooms for tonight and need to check-out tomorrow for Villa Lao Wooden House which mommy booked with Booking.com.

Lunch : Spaghetti @ Nam Lik, Vang Vieng
Dinner : Laotian Meal by the Mekong
Hotel -

Some photos taken today

Road Trip 2016 (4th Day - Vientiane)

It was a more relax day compared to the first 2 days of travelling. We started off today with 14c stroll around our hotel visiting Hor Kham and Wat Sisaket. After that we drove to see Patuxay and That Luang Pagoda before heading to ASEAN Mall and Talat Sao.

There is nothing in ASEAN Mall except for a "supermarket" which has pretty reasonable prices.

We will be heading to Luang Prabang via Vang Vieng tomorrow.

Happy Chinese New Year!!!!

Lunch : Sweet and Sour @ Talat Sao
Dinner : Loation Dishes @ Kualao Restaurant

Hotel - Riverside Palace Hotel, Vientaine

Some photos taken today,

Wat Sisaket

Patuxay

That Luang

Road Trip 2016 (3rd Day - Vientiane)

Today was another long drive. Started off from Ampawa in Samut Songkram at 7am so we could try to arrive at the Nong Khao border by 1600hrs as Dad was worried that we could not enter the border after the offices closes at 1600hrs. Border crossing was smooth except that it took around 2 hours to process the car documents by the Laotian authority.

We were out of the border complex by 1900hrs driving on the opposite direction traffic!!! It was quite confusing at the beginning.

Temperature in Vientiane was around 19'C when we arrived.

Lunch : Roast Chicken @ Khon Kaen
Dinner : Chinese Teochew Restaurant @ Quai Fa Nga, Vientiane

Hotel - Riverside Palace Hotel, Vientiane

Some photos taken today

Road Trip 2016 (2nd Day - Ampawa)

Happy Chinese New Year!!!...

This year I am doing another road trip from Kuala Lumpur to Boten in Laos. We started yesterday from Kajang at 1630hrs and currently I am in Ampawa about 60km west of Bangkok. We left Hat Yai this morning at 0630hrs and we arrived in Ampawa at around 2000hrs with numerous stops along the way.

Met up with Kaotang at Petchaburi.

Hotel - Smile House 3, Amphawa, Samuk Songkhram



Tomorrow will try to cross the border into Vientiane if it is possible if not will need to stay a night at Nong Khai before going over to Vientiane.

Lunch : Spagetti from 7-11 @ Chumpon
Dinner : Seafood @ Ampawa Floating Market
Hotel : Smile House 3, Samut Songkhram

Some photos taken today

Horsey Day

It's a holiday but still a horsey day for me. Today I had my third horse riding lesson at Putrajaya Equestrian Park. Still have difficulties with standing trot which I started learning last week. I was too lazy to stand.

Went to IOI Mall again after the lesson and bought my new tennis (Dunlop Bio Tech 300) racquet for tomorrow tennis match with daddy.

Lunch : Sukiya @ IOI Mall
Dinner : Ginger Onion Fillet

Some photos taken today

Finally After More Than 2 Years

After an absence of 2 years, finally daddy figured out what happen to my domain. We needed to include another cname setting so that blogger (Google) would recognize us to direct it to my registered domain name. Finally its all done and hopefully I could start blogging again.

Will try to upload some photos taken over the past 2 years.

Lunch : Wan Ton Noodle
Dinner : Kids Menu @ BBQ Plaza, Mines

My Front Tooth

My front tooth has been shaky for the past few days and finally today it dropped off when I was chewing a chicken!

While I was chewing, I thought there was a bone when I ask mommy what is it? Then spit it out and came my tooth! Click this link to see when my teeth started to grow, almost 5 years ago!

We left early this morning for a trip with daddy's friend, Uncle Tee and Uncle Andy with Joshua, Lucas, Kayla, Kesha and Vienne to Malacca Zoo and a short walk at Jonker Street until it started raining.

Tomorrow I will be doing my first exam! Wonder??

Lunch : Amboi Restaurant, Melaka Raya

Dinner : Food Street Restaurant, Seremban

Some photos taken today,

    

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Today's Movie -Ice Age 4 - Continental Drift

My Kindee Concert - 2012

It's time of the year again for my kindee concert! This time I was representing my class to introduce my fellow classmates in Thai, since we are going to dance a Thai song by Bird Thongchai, Koo Gud (คู่กัด).

It was a tiring day for me since it was held during a weekday and I still had to attend kindee in the morning as well as my chinese class in the afternoon before heading to the concert hall! When I got home, while waiting for mommy, I fell asleep myself on the bed.

And tomorrow will be another long day as I will be following daddy and mommy to Singapore for a day trip! 

Lunch : Porridge @ Home
Dinner : Sakae Sushi @ Paradigm Mall

Some photos taken today

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Today's Movie -

It's My Birthday!

It's my birthday today and I could be a princess for a day!

I skipped school today to renew my new passport and all went smooth without any problem except that it as a long wait at the immigration office, I think it took almost 3 hours before we were told to collect the passport in an hour! Anyway I got in within the day so I everyone was happy about it except that daddy had gone to the office 4 times today,

1st Time - We all drove to the immigration office.
2nd Time - Daddy forgot his ID card so he had to drive back home to get.
3rd Time - Thought to collect the passport without me but I had to go as they needed my thumb print.
4th Time - Finally I collected my passport at 1645hrs today! Hurray and valid till 2017.

After I got back from Bao Bei, daddy help me to build part of my new Lego and we will the other part hopefully tomorrow since my aunties and uncles from Bangkok will be arriving in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. They are in Genting tonight, unfortunately I had an excursion tomorrow to High 5 bread factory mommy wasn't to keen driving up to Genting so late as I might missed my trip.

Lunch : Siew York Rice @ Auspicious Cafe, Sg. Long

Dinner : Bak Kut Teh @ Wing Hiong Kajang/Bangi

I made most of it assisted by daddy!

And some other photos taken a few days back.

Today's Movie -

Tomorrow Is My Birthday!

Hurray! Its holiday today and I will be 5 tomorrow!

Since it was holiday today I went out shopping with mommy and daddy since daddy promised to get me a birthday present!

And this is what I got for my birthday from Toys R Us at Mid Valley as well as a heart shape ice-cream cake from Baskin Robbins!

I will also be renewing my passport tomorrow and hope it will be process smoothly.

Lunch : Beef Ball Noodle @ Lai Fong Taynton
Dinner : Sushi Zanmai @ The Gardens

A video taken earlier,


Today's Movie -

Yawnnnnnn!

Another day at school! check out my new sunglases not the top but the bottom :)

Aunty Toon came over to our house to help clean up the house for Chinese New Year since after Great Granny passed away Aunty Toon will be staying in Grandpa's house for the time being until she leave for Indonesia in March.

Lunch : Pork Rib Soup with Rice
Dinner : Pork Rib and Mushroom Soup With Rice

Some photos taken today

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Today's Movie - Peppa Pig

Shopadeedoodah!

I just love shopping! woke up this morning and told daddy to take me to Ikea well actually not so much shopping but I was more tempted with Småland - a play room daddy calls it. Anyway Ikea wasn't the destination as it would be too crowded so instead mommy suggested 1 Utama (which was pack with people as well when we got there).

We left home around 1400hrs to have lunch at Lai Foong Beef Noodle at Taynton View which mommy think was better than Tangkak Beef Noodle @ Taman Maluri, anyway I enjoyed it as well since I finished a whole bowl myself and mommy needed to order another bowl for herself.

After lunch daddy drove to 1 Utama and the traffic wasn't what daddy expected, must be because of Chinese New Year which is just around the corner. Anyway daddy was so lucky to find a parking right next to the escalator. I got a new pair of Princess sunglasses and got to eat my favorite BBQ Plaza as well.

Just before we left, we bought a small pack of Garrett Popcorn... Yummy!

Lunch : Beef Ball Noodle @ Lai Foong
Dinner : BBQ Plaza

Some photos taken today

  

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Today's Movie -Real Steel