George Town on the island of Penang is a bustling place, a melting pot of colonial, Chinese, Malay and Indian cultures which show case the enduring legacy of the north-west Malaysian region’s historic spice trade. It’s one of my favourite places in Asia.
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Dreaming of the Datai and lazy days in Langkawi
I wish every morning could start like this….taking a dip in my private pool listening to the symphony of the rainforest - a melodic chorus of birds, chirping cicadas and the rustle of monkeys frolicking in the trees.
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Sabah, Dabah, Do!
For me Borneo has always had an air of mystery about it. I remember watching a TV programme with David Attenborough roaming through the undergrowth in search of orangutans. I had to get a map out to find exactly where this wild place was.
Sandwiched between mainland Malaysia and Indonesia, Borneo is the third largest island in the world and its land mass is shared between three sovereign nations: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei.
I recently had the chance to spend some time travelling through Sabah, one half of Malaysian Borneo (the other half belonging to Sarawak) to see what it offered, which turned out to be a huge variety of exciting things to see and do: I found myself being mesmerised by the most stunning scenery, gawping in awe at towering peaks, laughing uncontrollably at a female orangutan getting the water from a coconut, donning rather unsexy leech socks to trek through the rainforest and cruising the Kinabantangan River in search of wildlife.
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