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Borneo – The Place You Have Not Considered – Beyonder

Borneo. Heard of it? Of course you have. Considered going? Probably not. And that, is precisely its charm.

I had heard of it too. Everyone has. It floats around in our collective imagination like a half-remembered bedtime story — dark rainforests, head-hunting tribes, orangutans swinging through mist, maps with more ‘green’ than roads. But travel there? Honestly, it...

December 18, 2025By Anand ParameswaranBorneoKuching, Beyonder, Tabin, malacca, Borneo, Malaysia, Sabah, Sandakan, Sepilok, Mount Kinabalu, Kota Kinabalu, Mulu0 CommentsRead more...

Malacca — Where Southeast Asia Learned to Be Complicated – Beyonder

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.

Why Malacca mattered

For centuries, the Strait of...

December 18, 2025By Anand ParameswaranSouth East Asia, MalaysiaBeyonder, Malaysia, malacca, Melaka, malaka, asia0 CommentsRead more...