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For the whole next week, I will be in the Hong Kong. ShenZhen and GuangZhou. My dad, younger brother and I are going to China for holiday. We do not follow any travel agency tour. We travel at our own, kind of backpackers. We will spend 3 days in Hong Kong, 1 day in ShenZhen and 2 days in GuangZhou.

Planning a tour online

Basically, we did everything online, such as booking AirAsia flight tickets and hotel rooms. There are many websites for travelers on hotel booking and travel guide. My brother and I did online research for a couple days to find the good one. I also asked for friends advices.

The AirAsia return flight tickets (Hong Kong) is about RM1,000+ for each person (not the recent RM0 promotion). The Hong Kong hotel room is HKD450 per night for 3 pax. ShenZhen is slightly cheaper. We will stay in a 4 stars hotel in GuangZhou with river view.

As for the attractions, we didn’t plan much about it. We have a list of attractions of each city but we haven’t planned a traveling route. Freestyle!

"The Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World 2008 (Unofficial Guides)"

Shopping, shopping, shopping!

Hong Kong is well known as the shopping heaven because it is duty free for branded stuff. I checked a Canon camera listed price, Hong Kong is few hundred bucks cheaper than the listed price in Malaysia! That’s around 20% cheaper!

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I am going to Penang for this weekend. My last visit to Penang was more than 2 years ago. This is not a business trip nor a gathering. I am going Penang to visit friends and eat, eat, eat! Penang is so famous of their food!

“Penang and Langkawi Insight Pocket Guide”

I will go to Kuala Lumpur first on Thursday and stay overnight at my brother’s place, then take bus to Penang in the morning the next day. My friend will be my tour guide.

I know some of you are from Penang. You probably will meet me somewhere in the island. Please don’t be shy if you spot me. I don’t bite.

(Perhaps I should start a meet-up?)