Putrajaya isn’t exactly on the majority of Malaysian bucket lists, and in my humble opinion, that’s a crying shame. While the masses flock to squeeze through the throngs at the Petronas Towers or chart their courses to Genting Highlands, this purpose-built city about 25 km south of Kuala Lumpur is patiently lying in wait, as…
When you walk through the entrance gate at night, something cool happens. The cold does not bother you anymore. You are in Harbin Ice and Snow World, which is in the far northeast of China. It can get really cold there even below minus twenty degrees Celsius. You do not feel it because you see…
Some places are just impossible to capture in a photograph, and before going I’d braced myself for Jiuzhaigou Valley to be yet another ‘over-hyped Instagrammer place, the type of place that actually looks better on the internet than it does when you’re standing in the flesh of it. I was wrong. Hopelessly and embarrassingly wrong….
There’s nowhere else in China where you can truly stop, stare and then completely reassess everything you thought you knew about the ancient world. Here’s why the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum in Xi’an should be on your bucket list, a 2,200-year-old, sprawling underground empire that lay buried under the fields of China’s Shaanxi province…
You have seen the Great Wall of China in photos many times. You have heard people talk about it. You think you know what the Great Wall of China is like. And then you stand on the wall. And you feel the wind blowing in your face. You are standing on stones, and the wall…
Imagine this. You are in Zhangjiajie National Forest Park, China, when it’s 7 o’clock in the morning. It is cold, damp and you are standing on a ridge, in southern China, a coffee warming your hands, your feet — nothing below you but white. A limitless sea of cloud that engulfs the entire valley beneath…
There’s a kind of quiet you find only far from the mainland. It is not the quiet of a room, but the kind that has life. Like waves touching sand, or the gentle sound of a boat engine from the distance. And those palm leaves moving softly in a breeze that smells a bit like…
When I first heard about Penang Hill, I thought: Okay, Penang Hill is a hill with a cable car. I figured it was one of those places that tourists go to, where you pay a lot of money, stand at a viewpoint for a while, buy a coconut that costs too much. Then you leave…
There are cities that share their stories with people who visit them through museums and big monuments. George Town is different. The old part of Penang tells its story on the walls of buildings in alleys, on old doors, and on the fronts of old shops that are falling apart. George Town tells its story…
The Langkawi Sky Bridge is one of the most marvelous and breathtaking tourist spots of Malaysia, located at the top of Gunung Mat Cincang. This curved pedestrian bridge, which is 125m in length, is suspended by a single pylon at a height of 700m above the sea level, providing a 360-degree breathtaking view of the…
