So I’ve just returned from a road trip to the far North of the Malaysian Peninsula, to a small town called Baling in the Malaysian state of Kedah. It was my first time traveling to that corner of Malaysia, although the furthest I went last time was Lenggong to check out the latest site in the country to be inscribed on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Reaching Baling at night, we checked in at a hotel called Hotel…
If you guys asked what the highlight of my whole trip to Cambodia was, you might half-expect me to say Angkor Wat without a single thread of doubt. But NO. It wasn’t really the Angkor Wat . It was Preah Viehar, another wat complex located some 200km from the tourist-laden Siem Reap. I first heard about Preah Vihear on a radio news when I was on my way to work one fine day. Located right at the border of Cambodia and…
So, in my previous entry on my trip to Kelantan, I wrote about my solo road trip to Rantau Panjang from where I crossed over the famous Golok River and marked my steps on the Thai soil almost in no time. It was such an easy business doing all the stamping of passport at the Thai immigration office in Golok. They’d help you fill up a form and you only need to pay RM2 for their little help. I couldn’t…