Singapore and Malaysia make for ideal international getaways from India for multiple reasons. While Singapore is a glitzy place with tall buildings and high-rises, Malaysia, much like India is a mix of ancient and modern. Both places have a lot to offer and are best visited together, on a week to a ten-day-long holiday. More so when …
Category: Malaysia
Walking The Jonker Street In Malacca
Its colonial past was one of the primary reasons we had chosen to visit Malaysia and wherever we went, we got more than what we had expected. George Town, for example, turned out to be so much more than we had thought it would be. Same was the case with Malacca. There was so much history …
The Historical Town Of Melaka – In Pictures
We landed in the small but historically very significant town of Melaka after a short but quite enjoyable flight from Penang Island. Driving out of the tiny airport and to our hotel, we almost immediately noticed the rustic charm of the place. Speckless wide roads with charming old houses on both sides of the roads. Melaka …
The ‘Tour’ That Never Happened
One of the things that we wanted to do during our stay in George Town, Penang, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage was to take a tour of the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, also known as the Blue Mansion. While researching for our trip, I had bumped upon this place unexpectedly and had spent some …
Street art In George Town
When I had resigned from my job and moved to the North East, one of the things I had expected to be able to do is to blog more frequently and regularly, among other things. However, if you have been following my blog for a while you would have already noticed that things, at least …