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Some people asked us about visa to enter Indonesia through email. I answered everything according to my own knowledge and experience. Or experience of my friends that I know personally. We helped an old man to apply a visiting visa for more than 30 days but less than 60 days. To enter Indonesia, some aliens could come without visa, with Visa on Arrival (VoA), and another visit with visa before

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Our outdoor activities did not stop after Narcissus hunting. Our walking's friends were enthusiastic in finding new routes and destinations. Riza, one of them suggested that we explore around the Laach Lake, a caldera in Eifel Mountains (Vulkaneifel) in the state of Rhine - Palatine. His coworkers did that just a week before. A nice interesting walking trail. Did not need much to say, we were

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We traveled frugally in Lisbon, Portugal. Four days in the city, we dined out just twice. We bought plain bread buns and cheese or brought-from-home sausages for breakfasts and lunches, instant noodles for dinner. Not a healthy choice, we knew. We're on a tight budget, so we could not help it. Once we got french fries in a fast food chain, and that was too expensive for us. Once, that was a lunch

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Tallinn is lucky, the world war did not damage its old town. That's why we could still feel its charm in the capital of Estonia. So was informations led us, informations that guided us in visiting the main city in Baltic, northern Europe, near Russia. Getting such informations nailed or curiosity. Having seen some of medieval towns in other parts of Europe, especially Germany, we wanted to

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Living near Eifel National Park in western part of Germany, Open many opportunities to do more outdoor activities for us. it's easy to reach yet cheap. In the beginning of the last year's spring, the traveler family and some friends decided that was the time to explore a part of Eifel. We're lucky to find many books about walking and hiking on the Eifel in the public library, got two to borrow

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Like I said before, here, finding halal foods in Brussels is not a big problem. A quarter of Brussels' inhabitants are muslims. When you're there you can see that many shops, including eateries are muslim owned. Anderlecht, Schaerbeek and Molenbeek are some districts where you will see more of them. The Brussels capital is a place where somebody can discover some halal foods other than

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In the mosque of Tallinn, we asked Imran and Muhammad about halal restaurant in the city. They knew none with halal label. But there's one food stall where Muhammad bought kebab. We also did not find any information regarding halal eatery in Tallinn before we go. But we chose a hostel with little kitchen. So meals weren't a problem. We bought breads, pizza, butter, eggs and tuna from a

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As soon as we took our first steps in Tallinn, Estonia, we sojourned the local mosque. Seeking for its location initially, we found that it lies near the airport about half a kilometer. Bingo. We're there before noon. So there's time before we continued hitting the downtown. Out of the cariier, Tallinn was so bright. Wind blews hard at the same time. With a city map from airport information

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(from here) We started a little later the next day. Sure enough that in the morning the temperature was too lazy to rise. Like us who were also to lazy to rise from the beds. Similar to other european cities, Tallinn has an old town in the city. It walled around by stone construction that was built in the medieval era. Outside it were modern buildings such as stores, shopping malls, banks

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A shocking news came from AirAsia fan page in a social network last week. Some AirAsia flights to Europe (London and Paris) and India (Mumbai and New Delhi) will be suspended with the last flight 31 March 2012 for London, 30 March 2012 for Paris, 31 January 2012 for Mumbai and 22 March for New Delhi. Their reasons were due to soaring taxes and higher jet fuel prices. It is said that AirAsia X is

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Just one month apart after Helsinki, we flew back north in the middle of April 2011. To the capital of Estonia, Tallinn. Estonia was our 23th european country we've visted. While this continent lists 46 countries, that meant that we've still long half way to go to reach all of it. Helsinki - Tallinn actually was just 80 kilometers apart by the Gulf of Finland. But due to its freezing winter

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The Spring has come. Flowers have been blooming. Leaves have been growing rapidly. Trees looked green and exuberant. Birds sang everyday. The last spring temperature was pleasant and friendly. Warm with little rain. The right time for outdoor activities. Last year (2011), we and friend made some of the outdoors activities. Some was a little adventourous. Our home is not too far a famous

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Surfing our research for mosques in Rotterdam, we found two interesting ones. Mevlana and Essalam Mosque. We made a vow, we'd visit one or both of them when we're in the city, the beginning of April 2011. At first we intended to stop at Mevlana Mosque, northeastern Rotterdam. At Mevlanaplein 1st. It was named after Mevlana, turkish nickname of Jalaludin Rumi. Finished in 2001, this mosque

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We drove to Rotterdam in the bginning of April last year (2011) to see Kampung Indonesia. At first. We thought that it would be held in Rotterdam. A best from our home country was also in town. And it happened to us that Kampung Indonesia was held in The Haque. Drove hours from home, my husband did not want to add another kilometers outside Rotterdam. So we drove in and about the city.

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On the way to another part of Germany, many times we passed the town of Königswinter. In this interesting town, a tiny mosque from a far. It's near from the train station. I did not know why, everytime I saw it, I do want to set my feet in this mosque. Its turkish dome style, its minaret looked so inviting. Hiking on a hill to see the dragon castle or Drachenburg, we park the car a little

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End of winter mild temperature last year, made us eager to increase our sightseeing programs. This time, we determined to visit a place that was not too far from home. A town near ex-germany capital of Bonn, Königswinter. This very town itself is quite popular in western part of Germany, since it has a beautiful castle, the Drachenburg or Dragon Castle. Due to its beauty, many call it the

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Compare to Germany, looking for halal food in Helsinki was more distressing. It should be related to number of the muslims in the country were less than the country we're currently living. Demand and supply is proportional. But it's not too hard to find actually. We got some information online before. One that rather satisfying was from International Affairs Department of Malaysia. It

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Long before we step our feet in Helsinki, wehad looked for some information about its mosques. From internet, of course. We had four days, so we thought to visit one mosque or two. It's said that Helsinki had not have a special purpose mosque building. That meant that that worshipper used apartements as their mosque. We found some apartments mosques addresses. Worship places used by muslim

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Looking for a budget accommodation in Scandinavia, Helsinki included was not that easy. Their higher living standard made that possible. It's long time we tried to find something that match our budget, before finally catched this one. According to our standard, this one was also not cheap. But it's the cheapest we could get in the capital of Finland. About 70 euros per night for four. If I

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We bought public tranport ticket for Helsinki city in the third day at the hostel receptionist. Except children ticket, the hostel sold them. The female receptionist explained how to use the thin magnet cards. The ticket valid for all public transport like buses, trams and subways. And also the ferry to Suomenlinna. The last was our reason to buy the ticket. Some of Helsinki tourist

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(from here) Stopping for a while in a ferry port, we paid some attention to a ferry that would depart to Suomenlinna in 2 minutes. Suomenlinna, a famous island was in our plan for the next day. The sea surface around the ferry looked freezing. Covered by thick ice blocks. I doubted wheather the ferry could make it to the island with that condition. But my husband said, it sould be. When not,

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(from here) In the afternoon, my husband brought us to see a little bit outside world. To look for a supermarket. We planned that we'd cook most of our food during our stay in the hostel. Helsinki, like other part of Scandinavia is an expensive place to do everything. And that, inclusive eating out. So we heard. Fortunately, we found one not too far from the hostel. We stocked a loaf of bread

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(from here) Thick snow was everything we saw as we left the airport. Weather forecast did not say about falling snow that days, but much under freeze temperature. These snow should be falling many days or weeks ago. They're brownies or brown, due to sands that mix into the snow. Avoiding the cold, we got out the airport shortly before the bus toward Helsinki center came. Tickets could be

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Many persons we knew were curious when we said we'll travel to Helsinki this winter. Finland's position near the pole made it colder than Germany in winter. A week before our departure, we checked the weather and found that it would be between minus 13 - minus 16 °C during our days in that city. My husband boss, german origin said that making a trip there is insane thing to do. Looked at the

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(from here) Entering Monschau is like entering a neighborhood. The roads are narrow. Only a car can pass them. It's more an alley than a road. On the height, stands Monschau's castle on a hill. Made from natural stones. Residental houses are on the riverbanks or hillslopes. Besides of their narrowness, they're also steep tower higher parts of the town. The deeper we infiltrate it, the

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Lies on Eifel Mountain near Belgium border, the mini town Monschau become a popular tourist attraction in the region. We heard about Monschau from some friends in Aachen. My ex boss had also praised it as a nice place to see. But do not come in weekend, warned her. It could be hard to find a parking spot. From our home in Düren, Monschau is about 45 kilometer away. Or about 40 minutes

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The weather and I were cold when we visited Montabaur, a small town in the Rhine-Palatine state. Made us could not explore the town too much. In our second day there, my husband took the children around the oldtown, left me stuggle with my cough. According to him, Montabaur had a little old town. But it turns to be beuatiful and crowded. To get there from our youth hostel, they should walk

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Our last homeland visit was so busy. the schedule was tight. Have flied from Germany to Jakarta. Followed from Jakarta to pekanbaru. Pekanbaru - Kuala Lumpur. Then to Surabaya. Land journey from Surabaya to Jember. By bus from Jember to Cilegon in the other edge of the Java island. All in three weeks time. That was exhausting but fun. From Jember in eastern part of East java to Cilegon in

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On time, at 12:30, two men from two generations came with two pairs of light. It's time to move forward towards the grotto. They took us walking on arocky road on the edge of the hill, about a hundred meters from the restaurant. The gate of the grotto protudes down, as if it enter the belly of the hill. Both of the guides asked to wear our jacket. The temperature down there ranges from 9-10 °

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Had been in Maastricht again and again, we just lingering the city center. We just got there to shop in one of its oriental shops or buy bargain goods in sale times. Actually, besides a few historical museums, parks, and buildings, Maastricht has interesting underground grottos. I had this information when a family friend visited us about a year before. We did not manage to get into the

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It's not that I want to write in german this time. But it's hard to find the similar meaning of the title above. Independently, I'll translate it as the journey is the destination. I hopre it does not difficult to understand. Everyone who travels ususally has destinations in their minds. Bali, Europe, America are destiantions Or it could be a neighbor's house, a relative in the village. But

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Had celebrated Eid Fitri in Bonn last year, and got daily ticket, we wanted some more trips. The day was unfavourable. Thick clouds with prospect of rains. We wanted to travel to Königswinter, a town near Bonn that's famous with their Drachenfels and Drachenburg. But we did not the matching outfits. Our feast clothes did not fit to wear to hike the hills of Königswinter. A friend, Kang Tomi

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Not too long in Heidelberg, we boarded the tram to Mannheim to visit the biggest mosque in Germany, Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque.The mosque was built between 1993 and 1995 in the area of Jungbusch in Mannheim city. It was named after Sultan Selim I, known as Yavuz. It means star. The architect of this sanctuary was Hubert Geissler and Mehmet Bedri Sevincsoy. It had one large dome and towers as

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Heidelberg, one of the main tourist destinations in Germany, was once the capital of Kurpflaz. Its old town is situated between the Neckar River and mountains whre ruins of palace stands for centuries. German well-known writers such as Armin, Brentano, Eichendorff lived here.We're eager to see this city for a long time. When we still lived in Nuremberg, it's just about 4 hours by economy class

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We passed through this former capital of the West Germany often. But never made a trip here before. When my husband had to attend a meeting, I had some time to explore it. Fortunately, a female friend, who studied in Bonn university accompanied me. It was lunchtime, we headed to an fast food eatery fisrt to buy doner teller, or doner plate. Then ate it at Stadtgarten, where Big Sist could play

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Comics can not only be appreciated in a book form. In some places in Brussels, we could adore a large painting of comic characters on the walls. A friend of us once visited a comic museum in the city. We did not pay attention to comics initially. Also did not intend to visit the museum nor try to locate it. On one street only a few meters from Grote Markt, we saw a Tintin fan store. Sold

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In many European cities, works of art could not only be enjoyed in galleries or museums. Many arts could be seen or enjoyed for free. Statues in a park or other public areas. painting and sculptures, too.One of the places where people can enjoy art in Brussels is the metro stations. Not only in this Belgium capital actually. For we also once witnesseda similar artworks in metro station of the

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During the Belgian capital visit, we've scheduled to see the great mosque of the city. It's the largest and oldest in Brussels.Before leaving home, we had already gathering some information about history and location of the mosque. It lied on center of the capital. On the Cinquantenaire Park, precisely.According to Wikipedia, the original building was built by architect Ernest Van Humbeek. An

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Next day, we chose the neighboring eatery of Thai-Wok, the L'Ocean. From an online information, it's on Avenue de Stalingrad 112th. We noticed, many muslims lived here in the area. They had groceries and food bussiness. Many halal restaurants and halal labelling in front of the stores. Whereas in germany we rarely saw these halal signs. This one provided seafoods. A female we met the day before

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A friend once told us not to worry to find halal foods in Brussels. They're everywhere in the city. But we searched some restaurant or halal eateries from the internet before we're leaving for the Belgium's capital. And noted some interesting ones.Thought that we'll find the addresses easily, we did not check their locations via gogle map. We got a city map from  the tourist information and a

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(from here) It's hard to force ourselves out of blankets early the next morning. My body ached after walking a day before. But we had some objects to see and visit. So we got ready immediately. We made our luggage rady before the breakfast. Our train would left Brussels at about 6 pm that day. We did not intend to buy more public ticket to save 10 euros. We walked towards city center again  in

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(from here) We decided to walk towards the Avenue de Stalingrad while passing major tourist attractions in Brussels. From Place de Brouckere, we passed the Place de la Bourse. My daughter interested some content of the Museum Brussels, and we took a look to people around this place. Who were drinking, eating at the cafes. Looked so happy. Not too long, we're through some unique shops in unique

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(From here) According  to a female officer who sold the ticket, we must take metro number to Heizel when we wanted to go to Atomium. While considering the public transportation map, I was informed, that we could also take metro number 2 to Simonis, than take another metro or bus to Heizel. For metro number 2 came first, we got in immediately. We noted, that all stops in the city were written in

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Located not far from our home in western part of Germany, we did not visit Brussels immediately. It could be reach within 2 hours from our home in Duren. We could choose whether using a fast train (ICE or Thalys) via Aachen. Or connecting economical train Duren - Aachen - Luttich - Brussels. We chose a fast and relatively inexpensive option, the german fast train, ICE. The price was less than

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While it's hard to get some bargain flight ticket or travel package on summer vacation last year, we decided to try our neighbroing country. The choice fell on Belgium. To Brussel, we just need less than two hours by train. The price od the train tickets were not too expensive, too. Deutsche Bahn (german railway company) offers cheap tickets, the Europa Spezial. With destinations are its

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The twin town of Sankt Goar.

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River Rhine is not only important waterway in Germany, it's also become one of the main tourist attraction. Due to its beautiful sceneries along the river. The river's name came from keltish language that means flow. The fountain is from canton Graubuenden, Switzerland. And emptied itself into the North Sea in the Netherlands.Watershed between Mainz and Cologne, past ancient towns, vineyards,

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When the others opted to take a ferry from Bacharach to Sankt Goar, we did not participate. We took a train towards Sankt Goar. We ran from the ferry harbor to the train station of Bacharach.Bacharach - Sankt Goar was only two train stops. It's less than 15 minutes away by the train. We saw a camping ground just before the train entered Sankt Goar. Similar to Bacharach, the station looked

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Rhine basin is famous for its beauty. Green hills, beautiful valleys, vineyards, idyllic villages, old towns are few tourist attractions in the area. One of the old town tourist puller is Bacharach. It lies between Mainz and Koblenz.We're eager to visit this old town fo long. We're so curious because so many people compared Bacharach to another unique medieval town, Rothenburg ob der Tauber in

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Had lived for years in Bremerhaven and often traveled to Bremen, we had just visited three of many mosques in this city. In Bremen - Gropelingen, there's third biggest mosque in Germany so far. The Fatih Camii or Fatih Mosque. My husband had a couple of his Friday prayers there, when he worked near the area. Only after moving to Duren, and visited some friends in Bremen, we made a note to

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Flying will be more expensive from 1st January 2011 in Germany. The German government has imposed tax for purchasing flight ticket both domestic and international. The tax would be charged to the airline, but airlines could also charged the passengers. So logically, the prices ill be more expensive. This assessment was so rapid that surprised german aviation industry. Soon after it was announced,

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Stayed not too long in Merkez Mosque, Duisburg, our group of travelers moved again toward Dusseldorf. We intended to go to street whose some Japanese shops. The train jouryey took less than a half an hour from Duisburg main station. We used to spend our train time to eat our lunch. It was pretty sunny when we arrived in Dusseldorf. We went briefly at the tourist information office to get a map

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Merkez Mosque, Duisburg, Germany This Merkez Mosque, fourth largest and one of the most beautiful mosque in Germany at this time. We wanted to visit it since long ago. Late March this year, we could afford to come. With some of our friends. Wanted to visit some other places than the mosque, we got off the house very early in the morning. In the late winter, the morning temperature was still

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(From here) We stopped at Rosenkothen bus stop. In this area, there's several factory outlets. The most famous and largest is the Esprit factory outlet. There's also Tom Tailor, S. Oliver, Benetton. The last one is in some distance from the complex. From outside the windows, that Esprit looked so crowded. Luckily there's no queue when we entered. According to a friend, at holidays sometimes

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Shopping is not really our family hobby. Other than have not enough money to do that, we think there's still many interesting things to do besides shopping for branded goods. But sometimes we accompany friends to visit some famous shopping spots. One day a friend asked to join them to visit some factory outlets. We bought cheap state train ticket, Schoener Tag NRW Ticket. That was four of us.

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It must not always the Alps or Sauerland to have our winter vacation. So far, we've visited Braunlage in Harz Mountains and Winterberg in Rothaargebirge, two rather famous winter resorts in Germany. What we did not know, there's also alternatives nearer to home, with cheaper public transportations, too. They are in Eifel Mountains.Eifel mountains actually is not known as winter resort. But more a

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It has been over two hundreds years since Solingen, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia of Germany is known as a city of household tools maker. They make various types of knives, pots, pans, and many more. My mother who lived in Indonesia also once said that a knife made in Solingen had a very good quality that last forever.For sometime, we knew this town only from their products. If we could, we

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Last week I just read a newsletter from big budget airline in Asia, AirAsia. That was about their new european route, from Kuala Lumpur to Paris. The first flight will be at the Valentine's Day 14th February 2011. For that, they had a promotion, with one way ticket price less than 1,50 million rupiahs. Means, a lucky one could fly from any AirAsia city in Indonesia via Kuala Lumpur to Paris with

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Most visited christmas market in Germany.

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The town where we live now.

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In November as now, Christmas preparations begins significantly throughout Germany. Discount all kind of Christmas stuffs started in almost every store. Supermarkets offer cake or cookies making equipments, or assorted home decorations. Cloth shops offer discount for the winter stuffs While the toy stores attracts their young costumers with many attractives and vibrant decorations, too.In city's

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On our last night in Malta, we stopped by the Hard Rock Cafe. Bought some merchandises for some friends. The location of one of this famous cafe in is Floriana, an area just in front of Valetta. From the information from one shopkeeper, it's located at Waterfront Floriana, a waterfront shopping complex. From the entrance of  Valetta, there is a derivative of a sharp downward toward the sea. A bit

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Had a glance at Tarxien temple and outside hypogeum, we left for the only mosque in this mini state. It lies in the town of Paola, short walking distance from Hypogeum. I dont know exactly what's the name of the bus stop near the mosque. Since I did not see any name on it. But you can ask the locals or the bus driver. Paola is a busy area in Malta. Many city buses pass through this area. We

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Back from Gozo island, we're not heading to Sliema. But took a city bus directly towards Valetta. We wanted to take a short look at Tarxien temple before visiting the only mosque in Paola, Malta. A man said assalamualaikum to us at a bus stop in the port in Cirkewwa. Although we did not talk much, we're a happy to hear that greeting.Our long journey to Valetta (almost an hour ride) was not

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A passenger ferry was just left for Gozo when we arrived at the port in Cirkewwa. Te clouds got thicker. Rain could fall anytime soon. The wind blew hard. We were pessimistic, that today's trip would be nice and enjoyable. Half running to beat the rain, we went into a building that sell ferry's ticket. It's not expensive to travel between these two islands. Less than 5 euros for adult and

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On our third day in a mini state in Southern Europe, on a Sunday, we decided to come to the island of Gozo. It lies west of the island of Malta. Malta is actually comprised of three islands: Malta, Comino, Gozo. Only Malta and Gozo are inhabited.This time we came out a little late from the hotel. Exhausted after a day of reaching some of the city's main destinations a day earlier. After ten

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It was late in the afternoon when we arrived back in Valetta. Like in Germany, those ways we're in Malta were carnival days  that was celebrated around Malta. The most prominent area was of course the capital, Valetta.Since our first day ere, we could feel Valetta's feast and party atmosphere. Children were so enthusiastic. They wore unique costumes, Animals, princes and princesses, some heroes

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A video of some parts inside Mdina, Malta.

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Stayed short at the temple complex of Hagar Qim, we back to the bus stop. Soon, a bus to Valetta pick us up. Almost every city bus in Malta has a route to or from Valetta, the capital. So when we wanted to travel to one place from our hotel in Sliema. We got to catch one to Valetta first. Then to our destination. A little complicated, but so is the public transportation system there.So when we

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Our Malta's travel notes would be splitted into several pieces. As a series. So they'll be more digested, imagines and enjoyed. :D We would not have thought, a small island of Malta has lots of potential. We thought, in 4 days we would be able to explore everything. But we had not. We even visited a small fraction ot its tourist destinations. I previously thought that Malta island is a big as

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I don't write this piece like I know everything about this country. It's the opposite. Before flying there, I knew so little about it. But now, it become my new favourite. So we planned to come again next times. Malta is one of the small country in the European Union. It's in Schengen Agreement. So we, as other Schengen's resident do not need a visa to get there. It lies in the Mediterranean

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Our Malta mission accomplished in February 2010, after we visited two of its three island, Malta and Gozo, saw Comino in distance. We left for this country half hearted. Just a day beforo the flight, Lil Bro got low fever, that made us very worry. We also made less preparation prior departure. I just read one travel guide book to find some important information about the transportation system,

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Pico Iyer, Editor It's more Africa, more adventure stories and touch of humanism in The Best American Travel Writing of 2004. From 26, there's 7 stories about Africa. From Tanzania, Morocco, Ethiopia, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Congo to Sudan. Two about Patagonia, Paris and Afghanistan. For me it's more adventurous than the first book from series I have read. Especially The Accidental Explorer's

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We rarely hit a museum during a visit. It hardly match with our schedule or budget. A popular Euopean museum visit often cost us more than 10 euro per person. Not cheap for our standar. But we made exception, though. When we hit Cologne years ago, we came to one of the Nazi's documentation center. It calls Elde Haus in city center of Cologne. Just near subway stop of Appellhofplatz. Elde Haus

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There's many ways to have vacation, recreation or just refreshing. But not all of them must be followed by financial burden or excessive budget. Although we love to travel, it's not always out of town or country. When we lack of time or money, spending time with the children near our home is alwys an interesting alternative.In our homeland, malls or shopping centers are kind of local tourist

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While we're still living in Bremerhaven and had student's semesterticket, we often came to Hannover, capital of Lower Saxony state. We just shopped and rarely enjoyed its tourist attractions. Apart of being the state capital of Lower Saxony, Hannover is a famous exhibition city. One of the major international exhibition is the CEBIT, the latest communication technologies exhibition, held once a

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Almost no coast that not be used as resort or tourist destination in Germany. So although this country has less coastline than our homeland, it's not too difficult finding any coastal tourism center in northern Germany. In warm seasons, these places will be crowded. By people who enjoying much sunshine and fresh air. One of them is Esens-Bensersiel. Not far from Wilhemshaven. We visited tis

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Due to its nearby location from home, we visit Aachen often. It's about 30 kilometer or half an hour by train from Düren. We come by at least once or two times a month. Shopping is our main purpose. In our town, there's only a small oriental shop and the prices here are higher. In Aachen, we can choose from many shop that sell asian foods and stuffs. Tempeh, tofu, vegetables, noodles, instan

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Well, talking about interesting places in this country, of course, it's countless. There's many many tourist attractions that could fill all wishes. For those who fond of shopping, might be interesting to visit these cities. Those who like natures and adventures can choose one from many nature parks. If ones like to learn about history, they can hit many medieval towns or villages. But for

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Using our holiday one day last year, we bought daily ticket to explore Cologne. It's just half an hour train riding from Düren. In the winter as always, the darkness comes earlier. The air was cold. We visited Cologne-Bonn Airport first, to make the kids happy. They're big fans of aircarfts. Then we had a close look at the headquarter of a major Bundesliga team, FC Cologne. We're not big

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People do not recognize Germany as a famous shopping destination. It lost to its neighbors such as Paris and Switzerland. Not that there's no fun shopping destinations in this country. There are several places that have some factory outlets where branded goods are sold at bargain prices. And they tend to be more by day.Although we rarely shop, especially branded goods, we made some notes about

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When train tickets were already sold out or became very expensive, and plane tickets, too, there's one more way to travel relatively cheap around Germany and Europe. That's the paid-hitchhiking. Riding in a car with the same directions.In Germany, many drivers offer his car to ride together with small compensation. Sometimes group ticket owner offer it to travel together so everyone pay cheaper.

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Lodging prices are relatively expensive in Germany. For us especially. It's hard to find bargain accomodation in big cities like Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich, and Stuttgart. But there's also an alternative. It's the youth hostels, known as jugendherberge in german. But, most of them require membership for those who want to use their facilities. We rarely stayed in a paid accomodation during our

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Another interesting topic related to Baltic, our trip destination in fall 2009 : our lodgings.In order to find a cheap accomodation that time, we used booking.com service. Apart from providing us reliable informations about budget accomodations, this website isn't burden us with administration's cost, that could reach two to three euro per reservation. In booking.com, we still asked to enter

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Since our mosque visit in Lisbon, we've determined, that we'd try our best to find and visit a mosque wherever we're on vacation. So when we planned to hit two Baltic's cities in two countries, Riga in Latvia and Kaunas in Lithuania, we also seeked some informations about our worship places in that two cities. There was no special mosque building in Riga. It was said that there's a house that

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Bill Bryson, Editor Reading this book was a roller coaster of feeling. Sometimes the writing made me smile and happy, like "This Teeming Ark" by Tim Cahill, "Weird Karma" by P.J. O'Rourke, and "Hitchhiker's Cuba" by Dave Eggers. Some mad me so sad. Like "Spies in the House of  Faith" by Isabel Hilton, and "Zoned on Zanzibar" by Tony Perottet. Having read "The Last Safari" by Mark Ross has even

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A video of city hall square of Kaunas and its surrounding area.

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From Riga, the journey continued to Kaunas, Lithuania. Kaunas is the second largest city in this country with about 400 thousands inhabitants. The capital is Vilnius. We came to Kaunas because there's a connecting flight from Ryanair. After searching in internet, we agreed that it's worth a visit. Our interstate bus from Riga had also passed Vilnius, an actively constructed city. Apartement

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Not many country have a good railway system like west european ones. In southern and eastern parts of Europe, buses have significant role in their transportations system. I've once heard that my east european friend said that she prefer a bus to ride when she want to visit her homecountry. "Isn't plane faster and in some cases, cheaper?" I asked. "It is", she said. "But I can take a bus from

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Make a trip in cold season is of course less comfortable for many. After a trip to Warsaw in 2008, we did not want to repeat it. Experiencing the coldness. Hence, we anticipated with having a trip earlier in the fall 2009. We intended to travel to two Baltic states, Latvia and Lituania, mid-October 2009. We estimated, the autumn temperatures would be around 10°C, would be OK for me, my

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Having record their sailing destinations in the past, it's so impressive that man could sail big oceans to many part of the world in 15th century.

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Our first flights with this Irish Airline were remarkable. How could not be? We had booked flights Bremen (Germany) to Kaunas (Lithuania), return. But we did not reached both cities. The first one, from Bremen to Kaunas ended up in Riga, Latvia. There was very foggy and the clouds were very low, the pilot told us. He could not see the landing point completely. A lady behind us nagged. She did

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Compared to Germany, food prices were relatively more expensive in Lisbon. We saw some doner kebab vendors and even managed to buy some in other european cities like Zurich, Venice, Rome, Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Paris, Brussels, Bratislava, Prague, Copenhagen, and most cities in Germany. But we did not see any at all in Lisbon. Their seafood restaurants cater expensive stuffs such as lobster

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