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Scenes of Peru: Arequipa

May 8, 2009 Photography
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[audio:http://www.motochan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/14-malakun-wawapa-1.mp3|autostart=yes] In the 15th century, the Incas conquered the Aymara Indians who occupied Arequipa, and the fertile region served as an important supplier of agrarian products to the Inca Empire up until its demise.  The modern city of Arequipa was founded on 15 August 1540 by Garcí Manuel de Carbajal, an emissary of Francisco Pizarro.  [...]

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Scenes of Peru: Lima

May 8, 2009 Photography
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[audio:http://www.motochan.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/12-baila-caporal-1.mp3|autostart=yes] While we were planning for the trip, our friends had advised us to spend as little time as possible at Lima.  As a result, we only allocated a full day to check out what Lima’s sights.  While the modern-day capital of Peru had little to offer in terms of ruins, our walks around downtown [...]

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Scenes of Peru: 17 Dec ’05 – 5 Jan ’06

May 8, 2009 Photography
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Scenes of Peru first began as a project I was working on for a photography course I took while at Stanford.  Up till then, I spent most of my time in photography taking pictures, instead of arranging and presenting them.  I forced myself to take a step back from the often-mindless snaps of digital photography, [...]

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Songbirds at Merbak Jambul@Tiong Bahru

May 1, 2009 Events
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After satiating our hunger with a hearty breakfast of chwee-kueh, chee cheong fan and grass jelly soy bean drink at the Tiong Bahru Market earlier this morning, we decided to join the crowds at the songbird gallery next to the Link Hotel to see what the commotion was all about. To my surprise, every member [...]

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Telunas Beach Resort: Review and Reflections

April 26, 2009 Photography
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If you haven’t figured out by now, I’m big on holiday getaways.  Last year, I wanted to surprise my significant other by celebrating the end of 2008 and the arrival of 2009 out of Singapore, while keeping a lid on travel expenses.  We’d tried out Angsana Bintan earlier in the year, so the more up-market [...]

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Night Markets of Phuket

April 23, 2009 Photography
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I‘ve saved the best for the last.  For you city-dwellers, apart from picking the right hotel/resort and hitting the beaches and islands hard during the day, you’d definitely want to avoid doing yourself a grave injustice and pay a visit to the night markets of Phuket before leaving on a jet plane.  Depending on your [...]

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Islands of Phi Phi

April 22, 2009 Photography
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It would be blasphemous of us to give the Islands of Phi Phi a miss on our recent trip to Phuket. Being god-fearing people, and not wanting to miss out on idyllic sights, we signed up for a tour package to jet off to the blue seas and white beaches of Ko Phi Phi. And [...]

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Banyan Tree Phuket: Review and Reflections

April 21, 2009 Photography
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Perhaps it was because of the primacy effect – we had spent 2 splendid nights at Indigo Pearl prior to checking in to Banyan Tree Phuket;  – the famed Banyan Tree experience failed to impress us the same way Indigo Pearl did.  Or perhaps we were simply suffering the ailments of  having too much of [...]

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