Which is it – Melaka or Malacca This confused me even before I got to Melaka. Which one is the correct spelling and why was I seeing it spelt differently. It’s actually fairly straight forward. Melaka is the Malay spelling and Malacca is the English spelling. The State of Melaka announced earlier this year that […]
The Cameron Highlands has always been on our list as a place to visit. Ipoh to Cameron Highlands To get from Ipoh to the Cameron Highlands, we needed to catch a bus from Ipoh’s main bus terminal – Aman Jaya. Our research told us that the weekends were a particularly crazy time in the Camerons. […]
Ipoh – Certainly a Destination You can be excused if you haven’t heard of Ipoh (pronounced e-pou). When researching how we best get to Cameron Highlands, Ipoh came up as a place to disembark the train from the border crossing at Pedang Besar. It was approximately 2.5hr train trip from the Thai/Malay border and it […]
Langkawi the Jewel of Kedah Langkawi is made up of 104 islands in the Andaman Sea, only 30km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia. The islands are a part of the state of Kedah which is adjacent to the Thai boarder (in fact the closest Thai islands are only 5kms away). The largest of […]
The Different Faces of George Town Our next House/Pet sitting assignment was located in George Town, Penang. The timing was perfect for us as we had always planned on travelling to Penang as we had heard good things about this island off the coast of Malaysia. The assignment was in an area called Straits Quay […]
This Time it’s Different We stopped over in Kuala Lumpur nearly 4 years ago on our way back from Thailand as my birthday treat. Back then there was a limousine waiting for us at the airport to whisk us away to our 5 star hotel. From then on it was taxi’s, mini bus and private tours as well […]