Travel Tales

It was my second time in Beijing, and something had changed. The city was different. I don’t like it that much anymore, I thought. I’d done all the major sights, even done the Great Wall again but Beijing had done nothing for me this time around.

The trick to having an adventure of your lifetime doesn’t require you to purchase expensive flight tickets to obscure places nor to put yourself into dangerous situations where only luck could get you out off.

An honest observation of Egypt, from fresh Malaysian eyes.

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.

They say travelling in Sri Lanka is the safer, easier version of risky India. Camilla, a Brazilian girl whom I met one night in this little island ferociously nodded at how true this statement was as she had just spent six months in India on her own.

Take the sleeper train to Singapore and save yourself enough money to buy more chicken rice.

Each time I held a conversation with friends who lived in either bustling Bangsar or distinguished Damansara, one sentence dripping with jokey sarcasm (if there is such a thing) would inevitably emerge: “But you live in Ulu Tembeling!” After a few such episodes, I took it onto myself to research this exotic- sounding location.