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  • TravelerSabbatical 2023
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    Day 143

    Best of….

    August 28, 2023 in the Netherlands ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    We are back home after 143 days, 4,5 months, 54 footprints, 512 pictures, 5 countries, 59 different sleeping places (hotel/guesthouses/resorts/apartments/house/tent/family/friends) and countless memories.

    No doubt it was fun, fascinating, adventurous, eye-opening, inspiring, relaxing, playful, explorative, valuable, a (once in a) life(time) experience, and unforgettable. But at the same time it was also intense, frustrating, stressful, difficult and challenging. In short, one big ADVENTURE!! After serious dinner discussions, we came up with some favorites of our trip.

    Thanks for following the Tiki 🐭 🐭 🐭 🐭 family!! A few more days to settle in before ‘normal life’ - school, daycare, work - starts. But after such a trip, we are pretty zen (like Milo in the picture 🧘).

    PS: There is a neighborhood (named after a small island) called Pulau Tikus in Penang, Malaysia 🤣.

    Best hotel 🏨- Jivana hotel (Kuta, Lombok)
    Most beautiful house 🏠- Kyoto house for 1 week
    Most comfy apartment - Full fridge, swimming pool, tv (Indra’s & Pat’s, Jakarta)
    Most beautiful beach 🏖 - Pink Beach (Flores)
    Best sunset 🌅- Gili Kedis (Lombok), Milo: Coco Beach (Senggigi, Lombok)
    Best sunrise 🌄- Julia: Bromo (Java), Kids: Kelimutu Volcano (Flores), Kun: Rinjani (Lombok)
    Best breakfast - Julia: Granola (Bali), Kids: Blueberry pancakes (Lombok), Kun: Japanese bento box
    Most fun dinner 🍽 - Sushi 🍣 served by bullet trains 🚅 (Kobe)
    Best drink 🍹 - Kids: Bubble (boba) tea, Julia: , Kun: Sake (Kanazawa, Japan)
    Best food 🍱 - Julia: Nasi Campur blue rice (Bali), Milo: Wagyu (Tokyo), Kun: keiseki lunch (Kyoto), Yuna: Korean BBQ (Jeju).
    Best tropical🌴 fruit - Kids: Durian (Musang King, Kuala Lumpur), Julia: Dragonfruit , Kun: Mango (Kuala Lumpur)
    Best hike 🥾🚶 - Heundeul Bawi in Seoraksan National Park (South Korea), Kun: Rinjani (Lombok)
    Best waterfall - Biryong Pokpo in Seoraksan National Park (South Korea)
    Best coffee ☕️ shop - Julia: CafeTravel (Seoul), Kun: Siphon coffee (Kyoto)
    Best cake 🍰 - Matcha Baumkuchen (Kyoto)
    Best boat 🚤 tour - Komodo tour
    Best animal spotted - Julia: Dolphins 🐬, Rest: Komodo dragons 🐉
    Best ice cream🍦- Milo: Matcha soft ice, Yuna/Julia: Mango boba soft ice, Kun: Pistache soft ice
    Best mall 🏬 - Pondok Indah Mall for food/shopping/haircut/kids playgrounds (Jakarta)
    Best show - Kecak fire 🔥 dance (Bali)    Read more

  • TravelerSabbatical 2023
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    1
    Day 138

    Seoul again - back to where it started

    August 23, 2023 in South Korea ⋅ 🌧 25 °C

    Annyonghaseyo Seoul!!

    Nice to be back in South Korea and Seoul after around 4 months to spend the very last days of our mega trip here. Other than a few activities that we didn’t do before, such as the National Museum of Korea, sunset from the Seoul Namsan Tower (including the hike in the burning sun 🥵) with an amazing view on the city, tasting national drinks ricewine Soju and Makgeolli, we took the relax approach with Korean BBQ, kimchi, ice cream, coffee, bubble tea, special dumplings (while eating we found out in a Michelin Star awarded restaurant) and more.

    Last but not least some souvenirs shopping in markets, Toy Street, supermarkets, department stores. So with full bellies, with full souvenirs-filled backpacks (even bought an extra trolley) and new memories full with unforgettable adventures, we are sad and happy to return from metropole Seoul to the other one… Hillywood 🤣!!

    One more post will follow, stay tuned…..    Read more

  • TravelerSabbatical 2023
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    Day 135

    Melaka

    August 20, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C

    Before we finish our Malaysia trip, we make one more stop in historical Melaka. An important port town in the 16th - early 19th century and therefore subject to power struggles between the Portuguese, Dutch and British. The Dutch influence is still to be seen in Jonker street and the history museum housed in the former city hall - Stadthuys.

    Nowadays the beautiful city hall area is filled with bike taxi’s with innocent looking carts decorated with cute pluches, Hello Kitty, Doraemon, Pikachu, Baby Shark, Spiderman. But once they are on the move, they terrorise the streets with their loud music and devastating beats (tip: turn on the sound of the video), apparently it is part of the experience…..

    We head back to KL and actually our trip is ending here. BUT as our return 🥹 flight is from South Korea, we still have 4 days to go back where our adventure started, SOUL 😁😋!!!

    Bye bye Malaysia!    Read more

  • TravelerSabbatical 2023
    Day 133

    Langkawi - sunshine

    August 18, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C

    After 2 days, luckily the sun came out. We managed to explore some of the wide white sand beaches (Pantai Tengah, Cenang, Tanjung Rhu) and cool off in the sea. Also a highlight were the spectaculair views from the world’s steepest cable car and the skybridge. The 4D dino ride included in the package was quite thrilling so fortunately the crocodile farm afterwards was more quiet, like statues they were just soaking up the sun until time for a snack. The sunset colours and the hot fireshow on the beach were a nice way to end the day and the mini holiday.Read more

  • TravelerSabbatical 2023
    1
    Day 130

    Langkawi

    August 15, 2023 in Malaysia

    Our trip is almost coming to an end and it seemed like a good idea to chill on beautiful Langkawi island. Emerald coloured waters, white sandy beaches, kids activities, duty free shopping, not bad after 4 months of travelling, planning, organizing, being parents 24/7…..

    But the weather forecast was not too great, rain rain rain. Is the rainy season not supposed to start Sept-Oct? Hey… didn’t we have almost only rain on Jeju island in South Korea and is this going to be a repeat? Well, let’s then start in a 3D art ‘museum’ and we will take it from there what Langkawi is going to bring us.    Read more

  • TravelerSabbatical 2023
    Day 126

    Penang

    August 11, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

    Penang is our next stop, an island in front of the northwest coast, and after a bus and ferry ride we arrive in Georgetown. We took it very easy these few days here. We visited the Kek Lok Si temple, being the largest Buddhist temple complex in Malaysia, with an impressive 7-storey pagoda and a 36.5 meters high bronze statue of the goddess of mercy Kuan Yi. We got treated by family friends to a nice dinner including driving an electric and rainbow lit bulldozer. Julia wondered how long this would last, well… until she had to push the car back to the start. And of course we enjoyed some of the specialty foods here as Penang is a foodie paradise: assam laksa, char koay theow, wantan mee, mee goreng, teochew chendol, nasi kandar just to name a few. We ended Penang with moonlight bay to enjoy the beach and strolling through the shopping mall to seek shelter for the rain.Read more

  • TravelerSabbatical 2023
    Day 124

    Ipoh

    August 9, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C

    We continue our way to Ipoh. Once the richest area of Malaysia, because of the tin mining industry. Those glory days came to an end in the 70ties followed by decline and neglect. Now it is becoming a tourist destination again with an interesting old town, old colonial British-Malay architecture and lots of mural art. The inhabitants are predominantly Chinese so we enjoyed tasty noodle dishes and dim sum!Read more

  • TravelerSabbatical 2023
    Day 122

    Cameron Highlands

    August 7, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ ☁️ 22 °C

    The Cameron Highlands, a plateau at around 1500-1600 meters altitude famous for its tea plantations, resorts and also all kinds of different farmings, such as strawberries, corn, sweet potato, flowers and bees. Treated with spectacular views and a welcoming cooler climate but also felt a bit tourist trapped by all the different farms to handpick strawberries, feed sheeps, try the local ice cream (of course we have to try lavender and strawberry ice cream) etc.Read more

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