Going to Malaysia
We left Singapore for Malaysia without looking back. We will be there again since we are flying back from there. I had no idea how the land border-crossing was going to be. Crossing borders in Latin...
View ArticleKuala Lumpur
I can now understand why most people think Singapore is clean and easy to navigate: by comparison, Kuala Lumpur is a messy city and a chaotic capital. We stayed right in the heart of Chinatown, a...
View ArticleGeorgetown
Malaysia is jungle, jungle and more jungle, with an incredible number of palm trees. I soon stopped counting them in the train from Kuala Lumpur to Butterworth. Getting out of Kuala Lumpur was a...
View ArticlePulau Langawi
We had originally planned to cross to Thailand right after Georgetown, but we decided to linger a bit longer in Malaysia. Still looking for the perfect picturesque island, we settled on Pulau Langawi,...
View ArticleThe Thai Adventure
My motto has always been “travel the world, take pictures, eat chocolate”, but I’m strongly considering changing it for “you haven’t lived till you’ve taken a bus that runs out of gas in the middle of...
View ArticleThe Woman in Black
The Woman in Black The couple walked into the restaurant and sat right behind us. The first thing I noticed was that we had the same shoes, a pair of red rubber flip-flop, the kind everybody wear at...
View ArticleSigns in South-East Asia
I love taking pictures of signs because they tell so much about a country. For instance, Canada’s bilingual “stop-arrêt” sign is unique, and so are the many weather-related warnings, “ice falling”...
View ArticleFood in South-East Asia
Coming from Australia, where food was expensive and not exactly haute-cuisine, South-East Asia was a foodie’s paradise. First, food is cheap by world standard and simple meal usually cost under $5....
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