Category: Malaysia

I spent a few weeks in 2012 traveling through Malaysia with a close friend and then some friends we met while traveling. Malaysia is an amazing country for nature lovers; it also has lots of great food.

Independence Day

It’s a dreary Wednesday afternoon and it’s been raining heavily off and on since Shawna and I arrived in Tanah Rata, the biggest of all of the small towns that populate the Cameron Highlands. We came here to hike and see a magical-looking mossy forest but we’ve yet to accomplish that goal. That’s fine though—it’s fine if we don’t even get to do the hike—the rain is nice and it has basically forced us to stay inside and reevaluate. As well, the place we’re staying is very clean and reasonably priced and there are a handful of coffee shops nearby. They also have laundry service and a dryer so I will get a pair of jeans washed for the first time in almost two months (too humid to air-dry jeans here…don’t know why I brought jeans to Southeast Asia…) and…