A beach bum's blog

Every once in a while in jam packed trains of Singapore's subway, one can hear of an 'amazing' place that people have just returned from. Some wide-eyed Caucasian or local dressed up to start his/her day excitedly saying about their travel over the long weekend and shaking their head with utmost conviction that they had been to heaven & back. It was one such day when i got to hear about Mt.Bromo eves-dropping  over a extremely cute animated caucasian girl trying to use all the adjectives she could to describe this place. Continued from here      As we packed our things after a light lunch towards our next stop to mt.bromo. After a 6 hour long bumpy drive through the varying terrain from everything green to nothingness and back to green winding mountainous stretch we reached the small town filled with tourist resorts and tour agents.     The hotel we stayed was nestled on a  small cliff on the shadows of mt.bromo and ap...

  With no solid plans of how long i will be spending in hong kong (Thanks to buddy pass from a friend in American airlines & i shall thank her always and keep doing so until she keeps me on the buddy pass list :P) this was my only sole trip of 2015 and one which i shall cherish for a long time.Travelling alone backpacking had always been on the list and that is exactly what happened, Almost 4 days in a city with no planning in prior or mobile networks (Yes no network means, no data, no maps and no possibility of browsing about places to visit). I know i can loose the liitle bit of brain i have quite often but these 4 days was more like i had lost it completely. If you are reading this, by now you would know how much of a narcissist i am and so i shall try my best to keep it short on bragging part (which is unavoidable) and try explain my experiences Day 1 - Landed at 7pm local time after 17 hr flight, looked out for few back packers hostel downtown with the airport wifi conn...