She’s a Happy Girl! Three Weeks Of Traveling Through Malaysia!

This isn’t a post about a place or some undiscovered attraction, no. Call it musings, perhaps, of three weeks officially on the road.

What can I say?! It just feels really good to finally be travelling again!

And I kind of think it shows.

The past year in Korea was perhaps one of the busiest years of my life. I had two clear goals in mind: pay off those student loans and save money to travel. (Accomplished!) Now that I’m actually on the road again, it feels like I’m reaping the rewards of such a hectic year.

That’s not to say that the past three weeks have been smooth sailing.

There have been nights spent in rooms that felt like hot chambers with nothing but a fan blowing hot air on our bodies. There have been rodents the size of cats, run ins with a real cat who decided to come visit me in the shower, and we’ve also been kicked out of a hotel because our room was given away – on a holiday – when there were no other rooms available in town…

But for all of those incidents, there have also been moments that make you forget about the road bumps and laugh about them just a few hours later.

I’ve enjoyed exploring Melaka’s streets lined with paper lanterns, visiting temples and shrines, and eating dim sum before sunrise (because the boy insists the best dim sum disappears if we don’t go as soon as they open).

I’ve enjoyed the train rides, ferry rides, and bus rides that showcase the lushest of jungles and raggedest of karsts.

There have been encounters with macaques at Hindu temples, and narrow escapes from macaques at the botanical gardens.

There have been chance meetings with fellow travel bloggers in Kuala Lumpur, and nights spent feasting on Indian food – because you can never get enough roti and mango lassis.

We are travelling slower than either of us ever has before, sometimes spending over a week in each city we visit, and giving ourselves a month to soak in every country we set foot in.

There’s a little perspiration on my brow, or perhaps a lot, but it feels good to be doing this at last! And that’s that. 🙂