Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label museum. Show all posts

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Adelaide City~ Day 3

We start of our day with a SWEET breakfast~ Using pita bread again, Banana Choc Strawberry and Banana Peanut Butter Wrap! Taste great!

We went to the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute, but the exhibition was closed for renovation. Instead of visiting the Tandanya, going to the South Australia Museum is more than enough because it has lots of information about the indigenous culture of Australia. 

We joined the South Australia Museum***** free guided tour which starts at 11am daily. There are different volunteer guide conducting the tour everyday, which is a good way to see the whole museum in a short time, about 1 hour duration. After the tour, we spent a bit more time, taking photographs. The museum provides lots of information about the Aboriginals culture and living, wildlife, and geology of SA. It’s really interesting, and we get to know many animals name which we have taken photos of earlier.


The unique paintings of the Aboriginal dreams on the school doors. 




That night, we went to The Astor Pub$, which offer chicken schnitzel for $10 on Friday nights. The schnitzel is average but our yearning for scotch fillet couldn’t be satisfied though, not much taste. Maybe because it only costs $23 for the fillet? Haha. . .


Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Siem Reap#9 Pink Lady Temple & Landmine Museum

Banteay Srei Temple aka Pink Lady Temple***, it is called the lady temple because of its meticulous and beautiful carving as if built by the cambodian ladies. We can say the sun is the hottest today during our stay here. Really 'beh tahan'..






On our way back, we drop by the Landmine Museum***. Founded by Aki Ra, it is a collection of decommissioned mines, bombs and other explosives. It is also a home for education and support for many children affected by the landmine. In fact our journey to Siem Reap is an eye opener because there were so many Cambodians sacrificed during the war. Many have lost their hands or legs, but still they have a strong heart to live on, playing music to earn $$ for living.


At night, we had Khmer buffet$ with special performance of Khmer classical dance 'Apsara Dance'*** which was recommended by our tuk tuk driver. The Apsara performance is one of the 'must see' (since u have nothing much to do at night :P) in Siem Reap besides Angkor temples. The buffet and show costs about USD12.

The food is not bad with western and khmer in the menu. Only the desserts were not too appetizing. The show is great too, many pretty cambodian girl and some funny act scenes.
Peter feels so happy because he can have a photo with the most beautiful girl on stage. Hehe.

Blog Reference

* Waste of Time
** Not Too Bad
*** Averagely OK
**** Interesting
***** MUST GO

$ Cheap
$$ A Bit Pricy
$$$ Expensive