Park Plaza Orchid

... 45RM per person. We ate at their Hornbill restaurant. The food was pretty good. After we finished we went across the street to the Orchid Park. The entrance is free on weekdays, 1RM on weekends. Then we took taxi from the Bird Park back to the hotel. The ...

... for a gift pack of tea/coffee and toast set - thought it might be a nice prezzie to take home.  Found the Far East Plaza and got directions to Ya Kun to collect our gifts - bit puzzled to find ourselves in the basement (a bit smelly) turned out to ...

... . This is where artists make these pictures by combining small gems. After that we went to the Botanical Gardens and had a walk through the orchid garden. Returned to hotel had a swim in the hotel pool, had some dinner and packed up our stuff. Onto ...

... . An hour and a half later and it has stopped raining enough to venture out, leaving the trees and shrubs all steaming. We enter the orchid park and I decide it's time to lay my trusty Vancouver cap to rest. It's been worn day in, day out on this trip ...

... botanical gardens. The botanical gardens were good. We saw some squirrels which were fairly cute, and got entry to the National Orchid Gardens (free with stopover). It is pretty amazing how many types of orchid there are. Anyway, we then got back on ...

... which was tasty although the colour was a bit off putting (purple for some reason). The gardens are also home to a fantastic Orchid Garden where they house all sorts of beautiful orchids in a superb setting. In the VIP corner they have Orchids which they ...

... our camping spot, we pulled up to the pumps to fill 'Nilla up with gas before driving around the corner to park in front of the Central Plaza.  There was ample parking and we still wanted to walk around town a little more in the daylight.  The ...

... Parliament house & the KL Bird Park which houses over 4000 free flying birds, the largest covered bird park in the world. We further head to the orchid and hibiscus gardens, police museum, the Presidents House and the independent square with a stop on ...

... and paper bills.  They went from bananas and tobacco to more eco-sensitive dolphins, panthers and their national flower, an orchid.  They also pictured a woman politician to give more equal treatment to women.    The gold museum goes ...

... and off we waddled down the road at a roaring 20 mph. In 10 minutes, we stopped and all piled out. I spotted the ‘Orchid Guest House’ across the street which I’d remembered reading in Lonely Planet was one of the better options so made a ...

... themselves with springs for necks. We ended up finding a great guide, Pan, from Jedyod travel, which was associated with the Orchid's guesthouse. We tailor-made a tour for the following day.   That evening we visited the night markets. While ...

... in the car. the very nice guy took us straight to Mae Rim. we couldnt really find the lake but we did stop at Bai Orchid - an orchid and butterfly farm. there was nothing much to do in that small town, so we started to head back into town.. on the way ...

... , Ohso Park & Swimming Pool, Nagoya Science Museum, Nagoya Festival, Osu Street Performance Festival. Ran-no-Yakata Orchid Gardens, Nagoya City Municipal Government Museum, Will Aichi, Tokugawa Art Museum, Hideyoshi Kiyomasa Memorial Museum, Nakamura ...

... along with casual restaurants and bars. Window-shopping, people-watching, and pub-crawling are popular activities along Cavill, Orchid, and Elkhorn Avenues. We first did some souvenir shopping for the pitiful friends and family members who remained at ...

... very affable band of fellow travellers from Eastern Australia, Singapore and the UK. We kicked off our road trip, with a stop at the Orchid Farm at Soroa – one of the largest in the world, and located in a stunning setting amongst the palm tree clad ...

... arrangement of spring bulbs and perennials that changes each season. This facility is best known as an award winning orchid grower. Several varieties are professionally arranged to mingle among other flower groups - it was very colorful and absolutely ...

... out orchids in the Castle offices. The orchids were gorgeous that we switched out. Offices can pay a yearly fee to get about 17 orchid switch outs a year. They don't get to keep them, when we switch them they come back to the greenhouses to recover and so ...

... above our budget.  From there we continued on to the Singapore Botanical Gardens - very lush & green and the orchid gardens were amazing.  Lastly we stopped at 'Little India', very busy with little narrow streets and alleyways.  Lots ...

... . We ended the night off atop a swanky bar in the Pennisula Hotel, where Andy' cosmo was garnished with an orchid, and Ryan's gin martini with olive was served with a bowl full of the Mediterranean delights! Ryan has really been ...