Describing our combined budget for Malaysia and Singapore is a little bit like trying to average your restaurant bills for a hamburger joint and a steakhouse. The average costs for each place are just so different that lumping them together doesn’t give you an accurate picture of what it costs to visit each place on […]
Taking it Easy in Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is a very livable city. Although we got a sense of this when we first arrived and saw the clean streets and luxurious shopping malls, it was further reinforced during the week’s time we spent there without much of an agenda at all. We needed to be in KL long enough for Chris […]
Hitting the Streets in Penang, Malaysia
The first stop in our two-week stay in Malaysia was Penang, an island off the northwest coast of peninsular Malaysia. In Penang, we stayed in George Town, which was given UNESCO World Heritage status for its unique architecture (it has an abundance of pre-World Ware II shophouses) and multicultural history. Malaysia is a diverse nation […]