Again AirAsia is offering 51,000 free seats from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Singapore. Therefore, whoever wishes to visit Singapore after Malaysia can kindly login to AirAsia and reserve your free ticket before sold out. For your information the booking period is from 26th September 2008 until 3rd October 2008.
Meanwhile AirAsia also added frequency to Bali from Kuala Lumpur as much as 5 trips daily. Thus, your next summer holiday plan to visit
Kuta Beach and
Ubud, no longer an issue.
Let’s grab the tickets and go holiday together.
The name Batu Ferringhi itself shows historically to Penang’s brushes with several different foreign powers, including the British, the Dutch and the Portuguese. Some locals believe that the word Ferringhi was derived from a foreign language (perhaps Portuguese) which refers to ‘foreigners’.
Batu Ferringhi
The “Foreigner’s Rock”, or better know as Batu Ferringhi, is a very popular place in Penang (Pulau Pinang). There are fancy hotels, restaurants, transport rental services and souvenir stores. Although the beach is famous, but the water is not exactly crystal clear. This could be caused by the large number of visitors to the beach throughout the year. However, the sandy beach is reasonably clean. It is crowded most of the time when the popular holiday spot for locals and visitors. If you are looking for luxury at a reasonable price, the hotels here frequently offer attractive holidays packages. It’s great place even for a brief visit as you wont run short of facilities for day trippers.
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Hokkien prawn mee also known as Fujian prawn noodles that is served in Penang. It is a dish of egg noodles and rice noodles in a fragrant stock, which is made from both fresh shrimp and dried prawns, as well as pork or chicken. Traditionally, small cubes of fried pork fat are added to the soup, but this is now less common due to health concerns. It is garnished with prawns, fish cake, leafy greens, pork ribs, squid, vegetables, crisp deep-fried shallots, spring onions and fresh lime.
The dish is served with sliced red chili, light soy sauce and sambal. The dish uses the same egg noodles and rice noodles used in Hokkien hae mee, but is stir fried and served dry. The main ingredients are shrimps and small pieces of sliced pork. It is usually served with lime and sambal chilli.
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Vroom, vroom, vroom…sound familiar? Excited? Motor sport lovers do not worry; the 2008 Formula 1 is on the way to Singapore Grand Prix this September 26-28. This will be the best show for F1 fanatics as it is the first F1 street race to be held at night in Asia. With nearly 1,500 lighting projectors to illuminate the 5.067km Singapore race track, you can see clearly how you’re favourite racers either Hamilton or K.Räikkönen tackle the challenging circuit over 300kph at night as well as the sexy F1 babes.
F1 Singapore race track
Singapore F1 is strategically located at Marina Bay, which is a hot spot for tourism. Fusion food, hotels, transportation, entertainment, shopping malls and etc, are just minutes away from the circuit. There are 3-5 stars Singapore hotels located track-side: The Fullerton Hotel, Goodwood Park Hotel, Pan Pacific Singapore, Fairmont, Marina Mandarin, Peninsula Excelsior Hotel and Swissôtel The Stamford. Morevoer, with Singapore efficient transportation system, travelling in Singapore is hassle-free and extremely affordable; or even to Singapore, with the world class Changi Airport that served 70 airlines over 160 cities. Beside, Travellers do not require to issue Visa for stay up to 30 days.
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