Krabi day 5 blog (final)

-The Kayaking day-

Reached the end of the mangroves and saw crocodiles. 😮

Hours of kayaking is no joke.. the guide paddled so damn fast and we were kiasu so we wanted to be one of the first few initially. But after that we slowly took our own sweet time and decided to just enjoy the view instead. *gained some arm muscles and became tanner*

Lunch here was pretty nice 🙂 esp the fish sauce

After lunch, we headed for elephant trekking since mummy hasn’t tried before.

We fed the elephant afterwards 🙂

After that, we headed off for our last dinner of the trip. The rice is in heart shaped, how sweet is that ❤

My last cup of mango juice for the trip

This was at the Krabi airport where we had our breakfast before the flight. Got the chocolate frapp! :p

Thanks for having us for the past 6 days, Krabi. We enjoyed ourselves there~ ❤

Lunch after we landed in SG!

I had alot of fun during this trip, and spent most of the time resting in the hotel actually. It’s more of a relaxing trip since it’s a beach vacation. Definitely worth coming for a short trip if you need a short beach getaway! My most memorable part of the trip is definitely riding the ATV, snorkelling, and eating! I would recommend food options: mango juice, nutella banana pancake, porn’s restaurant, red hot chilli restaurant and also do try out at least one beach view restaurants when you visit Krabi! AND DONT FORGET TO EAT THE MANGOES AH 🙂 The dried mangoes are the bomb as well, so buy like 10 packets home uh. jk. or am i. 😀

Estimated budget for the trip: should be less then SGD500 per person in total if u spend like we do (moderately). And also most importantly, do check out whether it’s a good month to go krabi or not cause they have monsoon period. The previous time i went to krabi was during the monsoon period and it was no joke. we experienced bad current that prevented us from enjoying the water activities and also electricity shut down while we were at a restaurant and while bathing (thankfully not me). But yeah! 🙂

Also, no harm checking out the Krabi Town’s night market la if you haven’t been there before.

You don’t really have to do much research actually cause there are many tour agents you can go to for the packages! Try to look around and ask around for the rates of the packages before committing to one so that u will know the standard rate instead of regretting later on. (compare tour package prices) So yeap!

Thanks for reading & love ya! ❤

Batam trip + 2014 countdown

Where we spend our 2013-2014 countdown together at Batam.
It’s my first trip to batam.
I was so excited the day before I only managed to sleep a few hours..
Had to wake up at 5am.. and reach harbourfront by 7 to check in for our flight at 820am. (Need at least 90mins)

Departure!

Our pretty passports

Once we got out of the Batam ferry terminal, there is a guide waiting for us to pick us to the bus.
So it was quite convenient.

Our first stop is to the chocolate factory,
And although they say it’s a chocolate factory, it’s not even a factory.. it’s just a shop.
honestly the chocolates were so-so, Singapore’s candy empire is much better.
haha 🙂

chocolate factory

Our second stop was to Maha Vihara Maitreya temple.
As the tour guide says, it is actually the largest temple here in South east Asia.
They have schools inside too..
Its really quite big and spacious inside.
We took quite alot of pictures here, we took with the 12 zodiac animals.. but below are just some the rest is in facebook. 🙂

At Maha Vihara Maitreya temple.. i guess he needs some cleaning over there

belly touch.

piggy with piggy

my sister’s monkey friends!

We went to the polo outlet next, Ralph Lauren.
I guess it is the authentic Ralph lauren,
but nothing caught my eye.. i don’t wear polo tees. So we just looked for awhile and went up to the bus to wait for the rest.

Next, Kueh Lapis!!
Batam is like super known for their kueh lapis,
i think almost everyone on my tour bus bought at least one each. 😀
The original flavoured is like $25, some flavoured ones are $29.

Homemade cake lapis

Next, we had lunch at Golden prawn 933.
The food there is so-so only.. nothing really nice so i don’t know why they bring us here.
We have to share the food as well and there is like no common spoon.
Haha ok, i didn’t like the lunch.. next!

Lunch at Golden prawn 933

as u can see, the decorations are cmi.. quite tacky

Indonesia cultural dance

There was this performance where the guy ate glass?!?! Haha quite interesting..

After lunch, we were supposed to go play the flying fox, Go Kart and water sports..
however.. IT RAINED! SOBSOB. I was so looking forward to the flying fox though..

So the tour guide brought us to a souvenior shop to make customised keychains. I made 4- one for my mum, and 3 for my sis and I. The guy making for us was friendly. 🙂

Us in the bus

After much shopping at other stops at Bengkong dry market, Batik factory outlet and first outlets- nothing much for us girls to see cause the clothings there are really not nice luh. haha so we just walked abit and went to the bus to wait for the others.

The 2nd last stop was to the BCS mall which was near our hotel- BCC.
We were only given 1hour to shop the entire shopping mall.
How is that even possible?!?
So we zoomed through the levels, just glancing at the stuff.

LAST STOP! Massage!!!!
YAY! Haha much anticipated..
We went to the massage centre called Sawadekap.
The people were separated by curtains,
Simin and I were just placed next to each other so i guess it’s kinda like a “couple suite”.
We were asked to change behind the curtains, but even before we changed, the female therapists barged in. -.-
they didn’t even give us time to change. haha i was like whatttt… then they say “what you have we also have”. haha ok loh..
The massage was quite shiok 😀 We added $10 for the scrub- to remove dead skin cells and for whitening.
The staff was nice luh.. they know a little english so it was good.
I was able to ask them what time does the supermarket closes.. and chat a little with them. hahaha

The best part of the trip is definately, the hotel room.
We stayed at BCC hotel.
It’s awesome la, i loveeeeeee the room.
I miss the nice, soft pillow.. and spacious area, and everythingggggg.
The couch at the full glass window was awesome.
We got to sit/lie by there, and do lots of stuff.
The best part is.. the FIREWORKS!!!!!
BABY YOU’RE A FIREWORK~
There’s like at least 1 firework in view every sec.. for a few hours.
The fireworks is easily accessible at batam, and so many people could just set their own. It’s super pretty!
I actually sat by the window to watch the fireworks for at least 2 hours.. that’s how much i love fireworks 🙂

Here is us, doing crazy things in the hotel room. 🙂

yeap, we do lots of silly thing

Acting likea ballerina..

And here is us, crazily jumping on the bed.. haha

*innocent looks*

It was bought at Singapore custom there.. at like $20? haha 🙂

We heard the cup noodles are nice.. so we bought alot.

FIREWORKS.. I LOVE THE FIREWORKS
THIS IS THE BEST COUNTDOWN YET!!!!!

Two silly people.. woke up at Singapore time 7am just to have breakfast..
when it’s supposed to be 7am batam timing. (Batam is 1hour slower then SG)
We could have slept for another hour..

The breakfast buffet was not bad, had quite a suitable amount of variety.

Breakfast!

After eating, we went for a swim!!

Time to swim 🙂

The pool area is pretty

spot the diff..

no more bath slipper! haha

At 1115BT, we had to check out of the hotel and wait for the bus to come pick us up to the ferry terminal.
Our ferry time was at 320BT, so we had time for lunch and chilling.
We found our much awaited food- A&W!! It’s like a must eat when u come batam.. Noms!

Last meal- A&W!!!!!!!

PS: BTW- we bought the package on deals.com
2D1N+ 1hr massage is $68
Taxes and tips- $30
OMG and yea they have this hotel deposit of $50.. (which they didn’t state)
It was a great trip, just that no tour next time, better to go free and easy! Haha i had a great trip overall thought.

Happy 2014 people!!
Thanks for reading and looking at this super long post of my Batam trip with Simin. Hope you had a great countdown like we did.
Have a great year ahead!!!!! 😀