Marina Mahathir

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.