During our travels, a friend warned that Langkawi was “pretty, but boring as hell”. Likewise, the tour operator in KL advised we should only go to Langkawi for a day trip because there wasn’t much to see there. Both of these opinions were way off base, as we found out for ourselves.

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Malaysia is an awkward pre-teenager in the tourism industry. It seems that Malaysia was thrown into the hospitality industry before it was fully ready, or maybe they just forgot to read “Customer Service for Dummies”. The Malays have mastered the art of the glossy brochure, but don’t quite understand that travelers have some expectations when they book a vacation.

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Borneo is the hidden gem that every traveler searches for. It is a place of natural beauty not yet overrun by pre-packaged tours and glossy brochures. It’s one of those places that remain a little bit inaccessible; making the tourist trail a dirt path rather than the expressways that cross into traditional coastal destinations.

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With nothing more than a few paragraphs of text in a guidebook to go by, we headed to the Singapore Airport leaving for the mysterious island of Borneo. If it wasn’t for a few bouts of pure luck we would probably still be at the airport wandering around with no place to stay, not knowing what to do. After crossing into Malaysia from Singapore, it becomes very clear that these two countries share little in common other than their geographic location.

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I wanted to send a quick update to let you all know that we've made our way to Pulau Langkawi, Malaysia on the Thailand/Malaysia border. The weather has been fantastic since we left Borneo (more to come on that later) and made our way to the west coast where the monsoon season is over. We have tons of pictures to show you, but haven't yet been able to get them uploaded to the site.

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