PEOPLES OF SHAN STATE Life in Myanmar is pretty basic, and food hygiene is not a national forte. It isn’t surprising, therefore, that a significant proportion of visitors who come to Myanmar get sick. Last night I joined their ranks…. Dinner really did not sit well, but luckily […]
OUR FIRST TIME IN K.L. Kuala Lumpur means “muddy river confluence” in Bahasa Malay; a rather ignominious name for such modern, shiny city in our opinion! The moniker no doubt suited the town more when it was a small, sleepy tin-mining village, situated at the (then muddy) confluence […]
SALAM DATANG DI MALAYSIA! After 10 hours of transit we finally made it to Penang, our first stop here in Malaysia! This is our penultimate country for this trip (we fly home from Singapore just before Christmas), and so far Malaysia is proving to be green, tasty, […]
Wandering Soles 