Spacious upper deck of Malaysia Airlines flight on Airbus 380 economy class from Kuala Lumpur to Tokyo

My recent trip to Tokyo in November 2018 via Malaysia Airlines by Airbus A380 big plane. I request for upper deck which seems more spacious for economy class. Meal were good but still can be improved.


Walk up the stairs to the upper deck. Smiling cabin crew.

Inflight entertainment is ok with large view screen.

Special food order. Seafood meal. Nice fish with omelette and asparagus.

Great Wall of China @ Mutianyu, China

Great Wall of China is one of the seven wonders of the world which is a must visit place when you are in Beijing. Tourist will usually choose between the Badaling, Mutianyu or Jinshanling section of the wall to visit. Badaling section is the nearest to Beijing and there is public transport by train. But Badaling is the busiest section and the most crowded. Jinshanling is the furthest from Beijing to do a day trip. From the 3 sections, I chose Mutianyu instead. I booked a bus tour from my hostel costing RMB280 Yuan. The best part of this tour is it does not include shopping trips. Some of the tours will bring you to shopping trips which is not much interest to you and it is waste of time. They do this to get extra commission from the shops and some evil tour will force the tourist to buy the items in the shop! The journey between Beijing and Mutianyu takes approximately 2 hours drive. The tour begins at 7.00am with a continental breakfast in hostel. The tour bus departs at 8.00am and reach Great Wall of China at 10.00am. When we reach there, the bus is only allowed to stop at the foot hill. In order to reach the wall, we have two options climbing up or taking cable car. Climbing up is not an option as we only have 3 hours to feel, walk and view the scenery of Great Wall. The cable car return trip cost another RMB80 Yuan. Climbing the stairs of the Great Wall is not an easy feat. You need to have stamina in order to complete the 22 towers along the Mutianyu sections. Each stairs are uneven and some part is ruin. Lunch is included in this bus tour. After lunch, the bus tour departs from Great Wall at 2.00pm and reach Beijing at 4.00pm.


Breakfast at hostel. Its a continental breakfast with scrambled egg, bacon, sausage, break and hush brown.

Our tour guide. He brief us about the Great Wall. He speak good English.

Walking up towards the cable car of Great Wall. There are many stalls selling souvenirs. Do bargain hard. Usually the actual price of the product is only 10-20% of their initial mentioned price.

Long queue to buy the cable car ticket.

Entrance ticket to the Great Wall of China.

Cable car ticket to the Great Wall of China.

Nice view. The cable car is just hanging.

Me on the cable car.


The stairs are pretty steep.

Towers along the Great Wall.


Inside one of the towers.

Many tourist on this section.

Each steps here is almost one-third of my body height.


Nice morning walk along the Great Wall.

Quite tough to climb over here. The wall is far harder to climb than what most of us think.

Be careful here. Slowly down the steps.

Surrounded by mountains.


School trip to Great Wall. I think the teachers will have hard time managing those students. They are so noisy and active.

The unique part of the Great Wall. Three barracks at one of the towers.


The Great Wall is long...

Expensive drinks and meals.


Me selfie on the Great Wall.


Bye Great Wall. Going down.

Market area around Great Wall.

Beautiful and classic paintings of China.

Souvenirs. Communist cap, paintings, guide book, soft toys and decorated umbrellas.

Time to go for lunch at Mr. Yang restaurant.

Lunch time. Included in the bus tour package.

All stir fry vegetarian meals.

In a full bus heading back to Beijing. I reached my hostel in Beijing at 4.00pm.

GPS/Coordinate: 40.429621, 116.568229
Tour cost: RMB280 Yuan.

Osaka to Kuala Lumpur on Economy Class Malaysia Airlines

Travelling from Osaka back to Kuala Lumpur on Economy class of Malaysia Airlines.

Rating:9/10(Delicious. I love the meal. It have good butter rice with curry chicken. The cold soba noodles with wasabi is my favourite. Simply delicious. The green tea ice-cream is great and the muffin is good as well).




Great meal. Keep it going. Butter rice with curry chicken is delicious! Wow, green soba noodles. Great with the soy sauce and wasabi.

Smoked chicken salad.

Green tea ice-cream. Good.

Malaysia Airlines - Kuala Lumpur to Paris (Economy Class)

After touching ground for 6 months in Malaysia, suddenly the idea of visiting the largest flower garden comes into my mind. The world largest flower garden situated in Lisse, Holland offered the best flower view in the world for almost 50 years now. Keukenhof is my favourite flower garden. Since it only open 2 months a year from end of Mar to end of May, I need to plan this trip soonest possible.

Initially, my idea is just to visit Amsterdam. But since Paris is just within 3 hours away by bullet train, I may just as well visit it. Since I am going to Paris on standby basis, my seat is not confirmed. Its quite tough to get the seat to Paris during end of April 2012 as most of the flight is full and Malaysia Airlines only have one flight a day. On my first attempt of standby, I disappointed as the flight was full and I have to go back home midnight via airport taxi. On my second attempt, I took bus to the airport and I manage to get a seat last minute as there is no show passenger. Yahoo! Anyway, this flight is really a long journey. It takes more than 13 hours from Kuala Lumpur to reach Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. The flight to Paris was pleasant without much turbulence. The meal served is just like other Malaysia Airlines long distance flight.


Since this is a ultra long haul, two full meals provided. My first meal is soy sauce chicken and vegetables with rice. Comes with raw salmon, fruits, sweets, bun and butter.

Second meal is always breakfast. My favourite selection is always their nasi lemak. Anyway, this will be my last nasi lemak and have to wait for another 11 days before I can have another nasi lemak. The croissant provided is good with butter flavour.

Finally reached Paris airport. Reached around 6.40am Paris time. I like to arrive early morning so that I have one full day. I usually opt for hotel/hostel which have luggage storage so that I can just drop my items and begin my exploration. I need to look for CDGVAL train to get to terminal 3 in order to broad RER train to Paris city centre.

Brought my ticket to Paris Nord train station. Ticket price from CDG airport to Paris city centre at EUR9.25.

Waiting for RER train. First impression is that the train is dirty :-P

Reached Paris Nord aka Gary Du Nord main train station.

Waiting for metro to reach my hotel.

Wow, when exiting metro station of Place d'Italie... My hotel is just 5 minutes walk from here. More updates later...