Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

If I’m being honest I wasn’t really expecting much out of Sabah, the northernmost of the two Malaysian states found on the island of Borneo, the third largest island in the world (after Greenland & New Guinea). It’s a place that conjures up images of...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

It’s hard to know what to say about the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur (KL, as a totally pointless observation, Malaysia sure does love to abbreviate). I should have more to say than I do, at least as a comparative – I was here 9 years ago but really can’t remember...
Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

Cameron Highlands, Malaysia

One hundred forty-one kilometres per hour. No wait… one hundred forty-three…. no, no… one hundred thirty-nine…. yep… yep, holding steady at one hundred thirty-nine. That, according to the on-screen speedometer in front of me, is the speed...
Penang, Malaysia

Penang, Malaysia

Penang in Malaysia is a 3-hour ferry ride south through the Andaman Sea from the duty-free island of Langkawi. Ceded to the British in 1791, today Penang’s UNESCO-listed capital of George Town is a bustling city of contrasts – wide, modern streets run parallel...
Langkawi, Malaysia

Langkawi, Malaysia

It’s 5 p.m. on… on… just checking… on Thursday. It’s my second day on this my second trip to Malaysia. I’m on Pentai Cenang, a 2 kilometre beach on the west coast of the Malaysian duty-free island of Palau Langkawi, which itself is just off the...
KLIA Layover

KLIA Layover

One thousand three hundred eighty-eight days. That’s a long time & that is how long it has been since I last travelled in earnest, meaning the last time I lived out of a backpack, used a guidebook & lived to a daily budget. It has been that many days since I...

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