my next trip

It took me about a week to decide where to go for this August, extremely free thanks to the Olympics. And as my dearest destination of Nepal has to be postponed again due to the unrest situation there, finding somewhere interesting, hopefully equally, seemed once a difficult mission to accomplish.

And so when I told my friends that I was going to Bali island, Indonesia and Malaysia, as expected, they showed doubt. ' you have just returned from Hainan island, why do you do beaches again?' 'but, wait, there are much more than beaches in bali;or should be.', which actually sounded more like to convince doubtful myself.

'and why Malaysia?' 'oh, because its promotional advertisement about its tourism on CNN was just great. And another reason is, Air Asia, the cheap airliner flies directly between Hangzhou and Kuala Lumper at good rates.

So, W. almost immediately agreed to come with me, even before I worked out my itinerary yet. Since as the summer vacation started, going out to see the world surely is a good way to kill the time. Another friend, A. was almost convinced, but next day backed out because since A. successfully located another partner to travel with to Cambodia and Thailand, the dream places to them.

We, two of us plan to travel between Aug. 16-30, to Yogyakarta, Bali cities of Indonesia and Kuching, Meluca and Kuala Lumper of Malaysia, while A. and friend between Aug. 15-31 to the neighbour countries. How interesting!