Kuching does not try to impress you. It doesn’t rise dramatically. Nor does it overwhelm with scale or spectacle. It simply unfolds — gently, patiently — along the banks of the Sarawak River. And in a region where rainforest and river dominate the imagination, Kuching offers something quietly radical: a city at ease with itself.
Tabin Wildlife Reserve is not a place that you “do.” You submit to it. Located in eastern Sabah, Tabin Wildlife Reserve is one of Borneo’s last intact lowland rainforests — a protected pocket surrounded by plantations, logging scars, and roads that creep ever closer. Getting there is intentionally inconvenient.
Borneo Food and Drink is essentially what the Forest, River, and Trade Routes Put on the Plate. Food in Malaysian Borneo is not performative. It does not announce itself with fuss or flourish. It is not plated for drama or designed to travel well on social media. Instead, it arrives quietly, often steaming, occasionally wrapped in leaves,...
Malacca in Malaysia explains what changed, while Borneo explains what remains, . You cannot understand modern Southeast Asia — its languages, religions, cuisines, borders — without understanding Malacca. This small coastal city, now comfortably walkable and faintly touristy, once sat at the center of the world’s most valuable maritime corridor.
nranquebar (Tharangambadi) is the place where Denmark Once Checked In, and History Forgot to Check Out… I didn’t arrive in Tranquebar so much as I washed up there. A long, dusty drive down the Tamil Nadu coast. Salt in the air. Fishing nets drying like tired punctuation marks by the road. And then suddenly—there it was....
The Colossus of Prora is where Grandiose Dreams, Ghostly Eyes and a Glass of Whisky collided... for me... Ok, it was a few glasses maybe... Some places don’t ask for your attention — they seize it. Prora, on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen, is one of those places. If the world of travel were a bookshelf,...
MACHU PICCHU is indeed The City in the Clouds That Outsmarted Time. There are some places in the world that feel “built.” Machu Picchu, on the other hand, feels “revealed.” As if the mountain always knew it had a secret, and one day it simply sighed and let a portion of it slip into human sight. Even when...
Cusco and the Sacred Valley of Peru is where Mountains Guard Memories and the Urubamba River Whispers the Truth. If Machu Picchu is the superstar that hogs the spotlight, then Cusco and the Sacred Valley are the stage, the orchestra, and the backstory that make the entire show possible. This region isn’t the supporting cast — it’s...
Peruvian Food and Drink is like a culinary punch in the solar plexus (in the best way possible). Some countries cook... Peru creates. It’s not food — it’s an attitude. A swagger. A soft-spoken kitchen wizardry that stays humble while quietly beating the world at its own culinary game. Peruvian Food is now officially one of the greatest...