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I have been talking a lot on shopping in Bali but what have we actually bought from Bali? Apart from those snacks and fritters we bought for our family and friends, we were also hunting for our souvenir collection. It is always exciting to keep some souvenirs from the country so we could recall our memory about the place that we’ve been to everytimes we see that souvenir. TRAVEL TIPS: IT IS GREAT TO HAVE THIS REVIEW OR TRACKBACK THINGY SO WE MIGHT FEEL LIKE VISITING THE COUNTRY OR CITY AGAIN AFTER SOMETIMES. In fact, there are few cities that have already been highlighted in my list of re-visiting. If you are interested to know more, you may subscribe to my feed for further updated list. So, what are the Top 5 Souvenirs that we have hunted down in Bali?
Wood Carving Sculpture – A nice sculpture displaying a couple kissing each other emphasising the alluring body figure of the lady. The display price was some Rp120,000 but we managed to bargain and bought at Rp70,000;
Home made Abstract Painting – This wonderful abstract is painted by a local backyard artist with the most attractive ‘Golden Touch’ at the center of the painting. The painting is measuring some 2 feet by 5 feet and it costs us Rp150,000;
Glass Mosaic Plate - A square 1foot by 1foot curvy plate made from small pieces of coloured glass mosaic on ceramic base displaying different texture under the light. My wife really loved it at first sight. It could be used as plate to fill up with some sweets or just holding it upright for display. Price: Rp80,000;
Fancy Wood Round Mirror Frame – This fantastic mirror and frame is actually made of MDF board carved into round and sun like shape and painted with some striking gold paint and small mirror inserts. Glass size is 15 inch diameter and unbelievable low price at only Rp20,000 !
Slippers??? – Yes. It’s a pair of slippers from Kuta Seaview Cottage, the place we stayed during our holiday in Bali. We took back both pairs of these complimentary slippers for our sweet memories (Off course the permission must be seeked from the management officer). The price? The small wording of the cottage actually worth a million… 
These are the top 5 souvenir we brought back from Bali. You may like some of them. So make sure to get it yourself once you are in Bali. The price can always bargainable and you have to make sure the final price is at least half of the initial offer. See ya. – Travel Feeder
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Extracted from United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO World Heritage: Quebec City, Canada, 8 July – 2 days ago, the World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 32nd session, finished inscribing 27 new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List with the addition of 19 cultural sites and eight natural sites to the List.
Among those cultural sites are 2 of our historic city in Malaysia: Melaka and George Town. Reviewing the UNESCO world heritage list, I have compiled and listed down the following Top 5 World Heritage Site in Malaysia which I would recommend to travelers around the world:-
1) Melaka,
2) George Town, Penang - Historic cities of the Straits of Malacca (Malaysia), Melaka and George Town have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns with a specific multicultural heritage that is both tangible and intangible.
With its government buildings, churches, squares and fortifications, Melaka demonstrates the early stages of this history originating in the 15th-century Malay sultanate and the Portuguese and Dutch periods beginning in the early 16th century. Featuring residential and commercial buildings, George Town represents the British era from the end of the 18th century. The two towns constitute a unique architectural and cultural townscape without parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia.
3) Gunung Mulu National Park – Important both for its high biodiversity and for its karst features, Gunung Mulu National Park, on the island of Borneo in the State of Sarawak, is the most studied tropical karst area in the world. The 52,864-ha park contains seventeen vegetation zones, exhibiting some 3,500 species of vascular plants. Its palm species are exceptionally rich, with 109 species in twenty genera noted.
The park is dominated by Gunung Mulu, a 2,377 m-high sandstone pinnacle. At least 295 km of explored caves provide a spectacular sight and are home to millions of cave swiftlets and bats. The Sarawak Chamber, 600 m by 415 m and 80 m high, is the largest known cave chamber in the world. The concentration of caves in Mulu’s Melinau Formation with its geomorphic and structural characteristics is an outstanding feature which allows a greater understanding of Earth’s history. The caves of Mulu are important for their classic features of underground geomorphology, demonstrating an evolutionary history of more than 1.5 million years. One of the world’s finest examples of the collapse process in Karstic terrain can be also found. GMNP provides outstanding scientific opportunities to study theories on the origins of cave faunas. With its deeply-incised canyons, wild rivers, rainforest-covered mountains, spectacular limestone pinnacles, cave passages and decorations, Mulu has outstanding scenic values. GMNP also provides significant natural habitat for a wide range of plant and animal diversity both above and below ground. It is botanically-rich in species and high in endemism, including one of the richest sites in the world for palm species.
4) Kinabalu Park, in the State of Sabah on the northern end of the island of Borneo, is dominated by Mount Kinabalu (4,095 m), the highest mountain between the Himalayas and New Guinea. It has a very wide range of habitats, from rich tropical lowland and hill rainforest to tropical mountain forest, sub-alpine forest and scrub on the higher elevations.
It has been designated as a Centre of Plant Diversity for Southeast Asia and is exceptionally rich in species with examples of flora from the Himalayas, China, Australia, Malaysia, as well as pan-tropical flora. The site has a diverse biota and high endemism. The altitudinal and climatic gradient from tropical forest to alpine conditions combine with precipitous topography, diverse geology and frequent climate oscillations to provide conditions ideal for the development of new species. The Park contains high biodiversity with representatives from more than half the families of all flowering plants. The majority of Borneo’s mammals, birds, amphibians and invertebrates (many threatened and vulnerable) occur in the Park.
5) The 5th Heritage Site in Malaysia: Travel Feeder web Site…..Oops! Not yet inscribed by UNESCO.
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