YZ

Svetla & Yasha Zibin
Joined: February 5th 2006
Logged in: April 11th 2011
We are off to Southeast Asia!! It is Svetla's first trip "East", actually west from Canada, and the third time for me. We plan to visit Hong Kong for 3 days, then Indonesia for about 7 weeks before Malaysia and Southern Thailand for the remaining couple of weeks. We are pretty excited (and nervous) but all in all it should be a great adventure and we expect to have fun exploring some exotic areas of this marvelous world.

Travel Blog Posts



Asia » Indonesia » Bali » Ubud
icon YZ
January 18th 2011
Well, we managed to spend nearly 2 weeks in Bali and it's been a great combination of sights, sounds and food! We finally managed to find some good food in Indo, apart from the millions of options in Jakarta. That's due to Bali being super-touristy as compared the previous regions in Indo we had visited. The shopping and ease of touring around the island were also much simpler and more competitive for us foreigners. Enjoy the pics and we are off to Malaysia in a couple days!... read more

689TBviews


icon YZ
January 8th 2011
The majority of our time in the Maluku region of Indo was spent in the Banda Islands (3 weeks altogether). There were barely any other tourists here due to the difficult transportation challenges to get there (a boat every week or two and only 2 small flights per week). It was exceptionally relaxing to spend the days strolling around the islands, snorkelling amongst the clear waters and beautiful coral gardens, or just hanging out in our guest-house and enjoying local delicasies like food made with locally grown nutmeg, mace, cinnamon, and kenari-nut (almond-like nut). We had a great time and now we are in Bali for a couple weeks to end our Indonesian holiday....more soon.... read more

502TBviews


icon YZ
January 4th 2011
A quick trip to South Sumatra for the weekend before we departed to Ambon and the Maluku Islands.... read more

126TBviews


icon YZ
January 4th 2011
Our first week in the Maluku region, near the city of Ambon. We had time to kill for 6 days before the boat left to the Banda Islands. Not a bad place with swimming and coral right outside of our guesthouse room so we could easily go snorkelling in the waters.... read more

223TBviews


icon YZ
December 3rd 2010
Arianne....a remarkable women who shared her home with us and took care of Svetla & me in Jakarta. Thank-you very much Arianne for the endless things you did for us and we really hope to meet again one day, perhaps you will visit us in Canada or Bulgaria! Many photos from our adventures around Jakarta.... read more

333TBviews


icon YZ
November 29th 2010
Greetings from Asia! We have made it to HK and the jet-lag is not bad considering the length of flight direct from Vancouver (nearly 15 hours). Our 3 days here has zipped by and we have enjoyed walking around various parts of the city, shopping in markets and eating/drinking some of the local foods and drinks. Please enjoy some of the pictures.... ... read more

174TBviews


Well, here we go!! Thanks to Mike and Caroline for having us for 6 days in Vancouver so that we could get organized and complete our last-minute things. Here's a couple pics on our way out of Larisa's place to the airport for our 2am flight out of YVR (thanks Sister). Next stop Hong Kong....... read more

113TBviews







Tot: 0.321s; Tpl: 0.012s; cc: 14; qc: 72; dbt: 0.221s; 1; m:eros w:www (173.193.202.105); sld: 8; ; mem: 1.1mb