Mabul has always been in my bucketlist for as long as I can remember. The first time I initiated a plan to go there was 10 years ago, when I was still based in Sandakan. Sandakan and Semporna – which is the nearest town from Mabul are both located on the East coast of Sabah so I actually had the logistic advantage of visiting Mabul during that time, but as fate might have had it, it never got materialized. But…
So, I went to India for the second time recently – this time to the Uttarakhand region in the far North of India. Due to the location which is so far into the Himalayan region and hundreds of kilometers from New Delhi where we landed, it had proved to be one of the most difficult travel trips that I’ve ever had to plan thus far. We took a bus from the Inter State Bus Terminal in New Delhi all the…
Bagan that I found out was not really ready for the influx of tourists which have increased so significantly in number over the years. Budget hotels are still very much limited (and Bagan is not really into hostels unfortunately) so coming to Bagan without a pre-booked accommodation can be either fun or disastrous – depending on how you’d take it. If there was something that I’d learned from my visit to Bagan, it’d be to compromise on my needs and…