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A Day and a Half in Kuala Lumpur
The transition between Cambodia and Malaysia couldn’t be more stark. We flew into Kuala Lumpur from Phnom Penh last Wednesday morning and it felt like moving from one century to the next. We were...
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A Foodie’s Paradise
Penang bills itself as Malaysia’s food capital, a claim that we discovered is taken seriously. Each ethnicity within Malaysia’s diverse population offers their signature fare, and people undertake...
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Penang Between Meals
Believe it or not, we actually saw some sights in Penang and didn’t simply eat our way through the town. It’s a neat area (Penang and the UNESCO World Heritage City of Georgetown) and seems to be a...
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Lazy in Langkawi
This past week we came dangerously close to entering a particular phase or mindset of long term travel/backpacking…what we’ve clumsily called the do nothing and not regret it phase. Our week in...
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In the (Dire) Straits of Malaka
The bus journey from Kuala Perlis (ferry landing site from Langkawi) is said to take only 7-8 hours. Whoever tells you that is a liar, plain and simple. Having departed Kuala Perlis around 3:00pm on...
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Adjusting to Paradise
Our trip to Tioman was one of the most seamless travel days we’ve had yet. Taxi from hostel to Melaka Sentral bus station, bus to Mersing, ferry to Tioman without, mercifully, everyone vomiting with...
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Back in Kuala Lumpur
We got up early on our last morning in Tioman to pack up our stuff, grab a quick bite to eat and be at the Jetty at 9:45 for the 10 am ferry back to Mersing. It was a slow start to an otherwise perfect...
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