Kuala Terengganu
A microcosm of Malaysia’s economic explosion: fishing village strikes oil, modernity ensues.
A microcosm of Malaysia’s economic explosion: fishing village strikes oil, modernity ensues.
The Perhentians are a tropical paradise, boasting waters simultaneously electric teal and crystal clear; jungles thick and fecund, and beaches with sand so white from a distance it might pass for snow.
An emerald coated in powder-white sand floating in a blue sea of tranquility, pretty Pulau Kapas has something for everybody.
Marang is the jump-off point for ferries to Pulau Kapas.
The construction of the Kenyir Dam in 1985 flooded some 2600 sq km of jungle, creating Southeast Asia’s largest man-made lake, with clumps of wild overgrowth gasping over the water’s surface.
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