Bangkok Nightlife

It’s not a secret anymore that Bangkok has one of the hottest and wild nightlife scenes in the whole of Southeast Asia. There are many categories to enjoy your self in this city from the wild clubs to the subdued jazz bars.  The amazing thing from Bangkok is you don’t need to dress up, and you won’t break the bank because the entire price isn’t very expensive in here.

Certainly all areas of Bangkok are teeming with plenty of normal night clubs, from the super fancy, catering to the wealthiest of Thai and foreigners, to the more humble club catering to the other end of the spectrum. A lot of bars selling drink (mostly beer) and there are music and bar girls to chat and entertain you. Most dance clubs open around 9PM. If you want to have a really good time though, you should arrive a little later. Most of the clubs in Bangkok are pretty affordable, which is a very good thing and will enable you to visit more of them.

If you’re a person who loves the nightlife, then you’ll love visiting Bangkok. If it is so you need looking for a hotel that fit with your need. I have been traveling to Thailand for business and vacation for many years. Most of the hotels I recommend here I have stayed in myself. Some of this list from my friend experience.

1.       Majestic Grande Hotel Bangkok

Located on 200 m from popular and bustling Sukhumvit Road, the Majestic Grande Hotel in Bangkok is known for its warm atmosphere and congenial hospitality. The most important thing is the hotel placed near the entertainment center. For the price and location, it is an excellent hotel with the fair price. The rate is $94 per night includes taxes and breakfast.

2.       Grand President Executive Serviced Apartments Bangkok

The hotel staff is excellent, the location is perfect and the pricing is great. A little secret about this hotel, this hotel does not charge extra for taking a lady back to room. Besides that fact this hotels is good because the rooms are well kept and service from the employee was good. The rate is $64 per night includes taxes and breakfast.

3.       Ambassador Hotel Bangkok

The price is good but the facilities and the room quite old but I hope that didn’t bother you at all because there is just so many bars, clubs and go-go bars around you that every night you won’t be bored. All within just less then a block away. The rate is $64 per night includes taxes and breakfast.

Journey to mount Bromo,Indonesia

Mount Bromo is an active volcano in the Bromo-Tengger-Semeru National Park of East Java, Indonesia. Although Bromo isn’t the highest mountain in Java but it’s probably the most famous one. The fact is Bromo is only one of many peaks inside the massive Tengger Caldera, but it’s easily recognized as the entire top has been blown off and the crater inside constantly belches white sulphurous smoke.

Bromo can be accessed from Cemoro Lawang at the northeast edge, but there are also trails from Tosari (northwest) and Ngadas (west). The nearest major airport is in Surabaya called Juanda International Airport, take a ‘Damri’ shuttle bus from the Juanda International Airport in Surabaya to go to the Bungurasih bus terminal(terminal Purabaya) and then you can continue by bus to Probolinggo from Bungurasih bus station. After 3 or 4 hours, you can continue to Cemoro Lawang by car.

I suggest you to go to Bromo at the morning (from Surabaya) and spend the night on Cemoro Lawang and then catch the sunrise tomorrow morning at Mount Penanjakan. There are plenty of accommodation options around the mountain. Facilities at Cemoro Lawang side of the caldera are rather basic, but there are good hotels in Sukapura and Probolinggo. For your pleasant, I suggest you to spend the night at Cemoro Indah Hotel, It has a nice view of Mount Bromo from your room and provide hot water. You can sit down in its restaurant and view the Mount Bromo directly.

When timing any activities in the area, bear in mind that sunset is soon after 5 PM and sunrise is correspondingly early at around 5:30 AM. This means you’ll usually need to get up by 3:30 AM or so to get there in time for dawn.

  • Mount Batok (2440m) is a brown volcanic cone at the north center of the caldera. Unlike the other nearby peaks it is no longer active and actually has some vegetation growing on it, mostly the local cemara tree that somehow manages to survive even on volcanic ash.
  • Mount Bromo, edges tinged with white sulphur and always bubbling, is the main sight. To reach it on foot, pick the left fork at Cemoro Lawang’s solitary crossing, then head down the ramp into the caldera and then across the caldera to the Hindu temple at the foot of the mountain. From the temple a steep path of 250 steps leads to the edge of the crater and a precarious meter-wide ledge from where to gaze into the volcano. Beware of local jeep-hirers, who often try to persuade tourists the journey to the mountain is not walking distance (in order to hire them jeeps, or horses). The walk from the tourist centre to the top of the mountain should take no longer than 1.5 hours by foot, and is about 3km.
  • Mount Penanjakan (2770m), located just north of the caldera, is a mountaintop viewpoint accessible by paved road from Tosari and hence popular with jeeps and even tour buses. Most of the crowd comes to see the dawn at 5 AM, and you’ll likely have the large concrete observation post to yourself if you arrive later in the day.
  • Viewpoint #2, along the trail from Cemoro Lawang to Mt. Penanjakan, is an excellent way to get a stunning view of the caldera without the crowds. To reach it, head west from Cemoro Lawang (past Cemero Indah) for 6 km, past farms and fields. The paved road eventually turns into a twisty mountain trail that ends with a flight of stairs on the right, and the viewpoint (with concrete shelter) is at the top. Allow 1.5 hours for the climb up at a steady pace, and bring along a torch if attempting this at night.

    From here, you can continue into Mt. Penanjakan by following the trail upward, after which the trail merges onto the paved road to the viewpoint (total time about 60 minutes one way). If planning to return the same way, mark the spot where the trail emerges onto the road (if you pass a stone lantern on the way down, you’ve gone too far!), and note that descending on this section can get slippery due to loose sand and rocks.

Travel to Bedugul Bali

Bedugul is a beautiful place on Bali, Indonesia. Bedugul are great tourism places which have a beautiful mountain view and also have a beautiful lake view from Beratan Lake. A lakeside area located in the middle central highlands about 50 kms from Denpasar. Beratan Lake is a beautiful wide lake encircled by the cool temperature and blanketed by fog especially in the evening. The water is clear and calm with beautiful Mountain as backdrop view that make you will forbear staying there. There are plenty of traditional boats standby at the lakeside which is used by fisherman and found local people are fishing to add the beauty of this place. The area is very popular as a weekend retreat. We can enjoy view of beautiful nature and place of recreation of water and others.

You might like to enjoy some watersports out on the Lake Beratan.. Water sport game which able to be enjoyed in bedugul are:

- PARASAILING that is game where you will use parachute umbrella and pulled by speed boat and moving around the lake
- JETSKI, that is game applies vehicle along the lake like motorbike.
- BANANA BOAT, using unique rubber boat, you will be pulled by speed boat to circle the lake.

In other side of the lake, we can saw a great Hindu’s temple, Pura Ulun Danu. Ulun Danu Temple is a famous temple located in the lakeside of Beratan and owns the beautiful panorama with Beratan Lake and mountain as a backdrop view. When the lake water is going up, this temple is looked like adrift above water because the water encircles it. It is situated in the cool area and mountain with breathtaking view and many tourist visits this place every day in particular on the day time. This is the temple of the lake goddess who is revered as a source of fertility. It is one of the most photographed temples in Bali.

Nearby also is the colorful market of the Candikuning Village and the beautiful Botanical Garden (Kebun Raya Eka Karya Bali) with it´s wonderful gardens and orchids. It is a traditional market to sell the fresh vegetable and fruit that is very famous and many visited by tourist especially by local tourist. It is one of the tourist destinations in Bali presenting unique local community activities by serving the variety of agricultural product like fresh vegetables, fruit, corn, peanut, union, tomato etc. This market is opened from 7:00 am and closed at 18:00.

Not so far from Bedugul, you can found Taman Ayun Temple. Taman Ayun Temple is a big temple located in Mengwi District and Badung regency. It is one of the heritance from the empire of Mengwi with beautiful temple building and the big fishpond surrounds it. This Temple owns the building boosting high and joins with others with beautiful decoration and it is designed by Balinese architecture.