Travel

As the sun sets on the SARAWAK RIVER, wooden longboats putter across the water. Rickety hawker-stalls proffer food from five

Once a quiet fishing village along Malaysia's western coast, Melaka City was the first taste of Malaysia for many European

Lavish palaces and mosques have sprouted across the Kuala Kangsar district of Perak since the 18th century. Thanks to successive

Seduku is not happy. Relentlessly, she hammers at the coconut shell, smashing it onto the wooden deck. Despite her best

Kuching sheds its skin awfully quickly. The capital of the Malaysian state of Sarawak has all the noise, clamour and

Tales of the ‘caviar of the East’ reach my ears within an hour of landing in Kota Kinabalu — the