Category: Travel Local

Open Monument Day conquered

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Armenian Church
Sitting in round chapel of the Armenian Church. D and I finished the 5 required stops of Open Monument Day. Received a pair of tickets for Already Famous, a local comedy featuring stereotypes of Malaysian.
Anyway, we went on a guided tour of Hajjah Fatima Mosque and Sultan Mosque with Alphonso (i think). It was a nice tour and it didn’t rain.
Sadly the Open Monument Day [in case anyone’s doing media monitoring] was badly organized. Although the concept is nice and makes you go around visiting different sites.
Details about the guided tour was only sent to me, not D. No one knew where the shuttle bus was supposed to stop. No one seem to know what all that stamps are about.
Sitting in this pretty church, I have sort of forgotten about the rain, bad organization and just feel at peace.
Amen.

9 more to go!

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//A photo of my hometown airport–Kota Kinabalu International Airport.

After setting the goal to visit each of the Malaysian states this year, I have managed to cross off Melaka, Penang and Kelantan my list.

This year and next, I will work my way through the other 9 states. My next destination is Sarawak’s Kuching.

Apart from travelling in Malaysia, I’ll start exploring the tiny island of Singapore in depth.

This tiny post is part of bootsnall.com’s 30 Days of Indie Travel project. Day 1: Goals

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The rest of my posts for the project can be found here.

Travelling locally, a blog idea

http://www.bootsnall.com/articles/11-10/rethinking-adventure-travelling-locally.html

Wanderlust doesn’t necessarily have to include a lot of wandering.  There are, of course, a lot of good reasons to take an international holiday: hiking in Patagonia, drinking coffee in Paris, or visiting orangutans in Borneo all make for an exciting itinerary. But flights are growing increasingly expensive, and, for Americans at least, the standard two weeks of vacation a year adds a time constraint to the already formidable financial burden.  For others, amongst them high numbers of unemployed, time is less an issue than lack of money.  Additional factors, such as the environmental expense of long flights or the general crap state of the economy, make it harder than ever for many to commit to an international vacation.

One solution is to start exploring your local area.  It’s not strange that many travelers know a place like India better than they know their own states.  Tourists have a more immediate urge to see the sights, and there is no match for good travel infrastructure.  The United States has a lot of beautiful places, but reaching them by public transportation is more challenging than in many other countries.

Found this interesting article on travelling locally. It gave me a bit of inspiration for this travel blog.

Travelling locally, Southeast Asia?
Travel local, Malaysia? 

But then, I should probably fill this up with my past Malaysian trips instead of dreaming about future ones and phantom blog posts.