Marina Mahathir

This year was quite the whirlwind of events, but here’s hoping 2021 brings us endless possibilities of the positive kind…

It’s been a long decade this past year, but the lessons we’ve learned will last a lifetime. We spoke to representatives of Google and Klook on insights they’ve gotten from Malaysian travellers this year, and how we can apply these trends to 2021.

For Hello Zafigo Season 2, Episode 5, we spoke to three well-travelled women who influence your travel choices for a living.

Fear of cancer can be deadly. Get schooled and get examined. If my mum could go through breast cancer at age 92, facing the ordeal with confidence, so can other women.

"At that moment, I had to decide what was the least embarrassing option – stay silent and possibly allow myself to faint on that hot tarmac, or pluck up enough courage to ask the man walking next to me if I could hang on to his arm until we reached the cool of the terminal…

To wrap up a successful first season of Hello Zafigo, Marina Mahathir speaks to Mei Mei Chu and Priscilla Patrick about life on the road as solo female travellers.

Unbelievably, we’re in the eighth week of the Movement Control Order here in Malaysia, a period when we’ve had to adjust our lives in big and small ways.

As Manal Al-Sharif, one of our top speakers at ZafigoX last year said, “Mobility is a human right.”

The year ends, as it always does, and we’re already talking about the next.

Not only do women want information on how to travel safely, smoothly and smartly, but they also want to share their stories and form a community of women who travel.

Travelling with friends can be challenging. Marina Mahathir shares her insights on travelling with friends without straining the bond you share.

Watch out for these VAT refund pitfalls when shopping overseas.

Zafigo's head honcho tried out the Travel Recommends pocket WiFi router on a recent trip and shares her thoughts about the device.

Marina Mahathir lets us have a peek into her luggage.

When you are a woman, juggling the facets of work, family, travel, and society is a different ball game from that of a man.

Jetlag and nightmarish traffic were among the challenges Marina Mahathir faced when she travelled almost nonstop for a month.

You've heard of Amelia Earhart and Yuri Gagarin. What about Katherine Cheung and Liu Yang?

Marina shares her best hacks and tips on how to stay fit and healthy while jet-setting from city to city.

This year has been extraordinary for me in that I’ve made so many long-distance time-zone crossing trips over very short periods of time, both planned and unplanned. While generally I enjoy long plane flights for their insulation against earth-bound work and irritations, it does mean that I also have to suffer that inevitable side-effect: Jet…

What I am talking about are the physical effects of travel, when your body starts behaving as if it belongs to another person entirely. This happens when...

I don’t use taxis much in KL. I have a driver who takes me everywhere so efficiently that I rarely need to look to see where he takes me. As a result, on...

In 1995, along with some 30,000 other women ( and a few men), I attended the 4th World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. Or, to put it more precisely

Voices of Zafigo is where we ask women who are living in a city, what their tips and advice would be for women travelling to the city for work or for leisure, especially for the first time, that could help make their travels to the city better, safer, more interesting and more enjoyable.

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.