Southeast Asia Video – “Travel Life”

Video posted on April 1, 2016March 31, 2016 by roundtheworldkid

Check out my latest video about Southeast Asia – Travel Life…

Perfect Penang

Posted on February 29, 2016March 7, 2016 by roundtheworldkid

The upside-down museum wasn’t what we’d expected. It wasn’t even a museum. Every room was upside-down, though, except two, which were sideways. We took a lot of pictures, and had fun doing silly things.

My new friend Lily and me watching the fire show

One night, we had lots of fun in the park. It was Saturday night, so it was packed with kids and their families. While the adults hang around, me and my new friend, Lily, ran around the park and had lots of fun. Lily was an eight-year-old who was traveling the world for 6 months with her parents. She was doing road school, too. Lily was very convivial. Just like me! My favorite part of the island was the fire show. The fire dancers swung the fire around so quickly that it was snuffed out by its own wind. They even blew on the fire, and it looked as if they were breathing fire. When spinning the flames, they got so close to you that you had to step back, in fear of being set on fire. It was the most magical thing ever.

Learning to be a puppet master

A Royal Scholar

Climbing the walls with Lily

Yeah, we strong!

Fire dancer

Fire Breather

Ultimately Awesome Udaipur

Posted on December 21, 2015December 19, 2015 by roundtheworldkid

We arrived in Udaipur. It was late at night. We ate, and went to bed. The next morning we got up, found a new hotel, packed up, and moved down the street. We didn’t like our first hotel because it was too loud. We just hung out at the second place all day, but the on next day, we went to to the City Palace. We learned lots of things, such as the fact that every Maharana, king of Mewar whose name meant ‘great warrior’, built his own lake in Udaipur, eventually creating the large lake that you see today. Chittorgarh was the capital of Mewar, but it was being attacked too frequently by the ever-expanding Moguls, so they moved the capital to Udaipur. Later we saw a dance show at Bagore Ki Haveli. My favorite part of that was the traditional Rajasthani puppets. Once, my new Italian friend, Francesco, was picked to pull some string out of a puppet. The puppet kept jumping at him, and he punched her away.

After Francesco was done, the ‘puppet whisperer’ said, “This time she has delivered a very weird message. She says he is so cute she wants to marry him.” That was hilarious.

Jammin' on the tablas! — Jammin’ on the tablas!

Our next active day was our last out of five. It was my mom’s birthday! We had lots of fun things planned. First we tried a sitar lesson. I eventually switched to the tablas, a kind of Indian hand drum, because the sitar was too frustrating. I picked up the tablas pretty quickly. We also did a sunset cruise of the lake. It was beautiful. Finally we had a snack and dinner. Udaipur was amazing. I love it.