After featuring Pnom Penh, the NY Times Travel section now published a review on another Southeast Asian city: Hanoi, Vietnam
On the piece “The Awakening of Hanoi” the writer described Hanoi with these words:
A stylish, European-influenced metropolis with manicured lakeside promenades, tree-lined boulevards, ancient pagodas and French-colonial buildings painted in a peeling palette of jade, turquoise and burgundy.
Located at the northern part of the country, this current capital of Vietnam was once was was the capital of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1976 and home to about 3 million people.
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In the near future you will be able to use AirAsia with their low cost tickets for those long-haul flight from Asia to US and Europe.
The Malaysian Government has given AirAsiaX rights to 36 destinations where more will be granted over time.
AirAsiaX is preparing to fly to Britain (probably Gatwick Airport) by July, follow by:
- Tanjian, China
- Hangzhou, China
- Melbourn, Australia
- Osaka, Japa
- Amritsar, India
According to this “Asia’s discount airlines reach for the West” Malaysia’s AirAsiaX, for example, will launch low-cost flights to London – a global hub – and also to the cities of Birmingham and Manchester.
And AirAsia by all means is not the first that is doing this
Oasis, a start-up airline in Hong Kong, has begun daily flights to London for as low as $147 one way and plans this year to offer similar deals to Oakland, Calif. and Chicago. Jetstar Airways, a subsidiary of Australia’s Qantas Airways, sells bargain tickets on routes between Australia and Southeast Asia.
Does this means you will be trapped on your seat for long hours without food, water or entertainment? Not necessarily.
Oasis offers free meals and in-flight entertainment, while Jetstar, which flies between Sydney and Honolulu, has blankets, food, and movies for sale.
So how can they keep fares so low? The secret, says Steve Miller, CEO of Oasis, lies in the efficient use of aircraft and crews, flexible pricing, and an attractive business class.
Advertised one-way fares from Hong Kong to London start at $147, but most flyers pay more (HOW MUCH MORE?), and business-class seats start at $920.
Nice to see all the competition in this area, next time you plan to travel to London from HK for example, perhaps the price will be even cheaper.
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Asia Dive Site.com is a diving site that aimed to collect information of diving sites in Asia. The site easily navigated by country:
Thailand,
Malaysia,
Indonesia and then by location. With so many dive sites in Asia, it will be great if they come up with some sort of list like “
Top 10 Dive Site in Asia you have to visit before you die” or something like that, listing all the dive sites, sortable by different type of categories, like, I don’t know, clearness of the water, diving facilities etc.
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New piece from New York Times travel section about Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia you can find here: In Phnom Penh, Hopefulness Replaces Despair
Tourists came to this part of the world usually visits Cambodia more famous tourist attraction Angkor Wat on the northern part of the country near the city of Siem Reap.
But apparently, Phnom Penh is now becomes a discovery for most of people, especially the young ones.
In fact, after a few days in this city, you notice that Phnom Penh has something of a “next Prague” vibe about it — a place where many young people from around the world, heady with excitement and the thrill of the unknown, are coming to reinvent themselves.
More about Phnom Penh and its history you can find it here:
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