Fireflies in Cherating
It’s pitch black. The only sound we can hear is the buzz of the motorboat, which seems a little too loud for what we are about to do. The trees on the riverbank...
Category: Malaysia
Mangroves along the Cherating River
Muddy, brackish, potentially smelly and difficult to swim in. Not much fun for humans, but great for fish and crabs. What am I talking about? Mangrove swamps. If you look closely at mangrove trees...
AWE 2013- Empowering Asian women
Asian women have come a long way from how they used to live, study and work in times past. Over the decades, we’ve become more independent- we drive our own cars, live...
Krabi
Here’s an idea: grab a bunch of strangers, put them on a bus and leave them on a beach somewhere. Risky, of course- If there’s a serial killer in the mix and you’re part...
On coming home
When I returned from the UK many years ago, I took a bus from the Klang Bus Stand to Brickfields. I’m not completely sure where exactly I was going or if that was indeed...
Getting down and dirty in Taman Negara
I was very, very uncomfortable. The cave was dark, I could slip on the rocks anytime and fall to my death and worst of all, I had just touched something soft and sticky. I...
The Best of 2011
Every Friday, the travel community on Twitter holds #FriFotos and this week, the theme is ‘Best of 2011’. The past 12 months were pretty quiet for me but I’ve started to make plans for...
Malacca
When my grandfather went into a coma in November 2002, one of my first thoughts was that he would still be able to hear me. That’s what people say about someone in a...
Old Kuala Lumpur
A few days ago, two friends and I took a walk around Kuala Lumpur to take photographs. This was something I’d been wanting to do for a long time- to just walk in KL,...
This week’s photo- Clouds over Lang Tengah
This was taken on one of our snorkelling trips around Lang Tengah Island, which lies off the coast of Terengganu, Malaysia. The snorkelling isn’t as good as what you get on Redang or the...
