Stories

When it comes to creature comforts, I would list toiletries as essential companions wherever I go.

No Miss Nice or Miss Trusting when you are in a foreign land alone. If you have been known to be an overly trusting person, stop that. If you are a helpless naive, maybe solo travel isn’t for you.

Nothing gets my pulse racing faster than the sound of a train whistle. I may not know where the train is headed, but knowing that it’s nearby and about to leave soon for wherever gets me excited.

When you think about it, it makes sense people are far more afraid of being in an aircraft than say, driving a car.

An honest observation of Egypt, from fresh Malaysian eyes.

I had an interesting experience while speaking on a panel recently. The panel was about travelling solo and I think there was a bit of a miscommunication as I'd thought it was a more serious panel but the audience was expecting something on the lines of "How to have fun while travelling solo."

There are some things we take for granted when travelling abroad, especially to first world countries. One is that our luggage won’t get lost.

Every year on March 8, I get the same cynical question from men. “Why,” they ask, “should women have a day all to themselves?”

There is a reason why travellers never want to stop travelling. It’s the same reason why college kids go on Gap Years and why frustrated working adults quit their jobs and spend all their savings on flight tickets.

Free on Saturday? Why not drop by the Kota Wanita event happening at Findar on Jalan Panggung, Kuala Lumpur?

I’ve never owned a car, nor have I ever driven one in the city. Buses, trains, taxis, I’ve used them all and what I can say is that yes, as a woman, while safety is a concern for me, I don’t think I would feel all that much safer not taking public transport.

Sometimes it's difficult to communicate when we're travelling and we don't speak the local language. How do we ask where the toilet is? How do we order