Penang is known as the food capital of Malaysia. Grant and I, being food motivated people through and through, were really excited to eat our faces off. Our hostel was located within Little India in the city of Penang. As…
Perhentian Island – Volunteering, Snorkeling, and Geckos
We were very excited to find out that a campground on the beautiful Perhentian Islands had two volunteer vacancies that Grant and I would be filling for a month. It sounded too good to be true: bioluminescent plankton, turtles laying…
Kota Bharu – Markets, BBQs, and Photoshoots
We flew from KK to Kota Bharu without a problem. We finally made it to peninsular Malaysia! While trekking around Borneo, we heard that the island culture is different from the mainland, so we were interested to see the differences for…
Mabul – SCUBA, SCUBA, SCUBA II
Semporna, Sipadan, Mabul, and Kapalai. This is the holy grail for scuba divers. Semporna, a kind of sketchy and rag-tag town, is the departure point for about a a dozen islands and nearly a hundred unique dive sites. Mabul is…