Holidays to vibrant Malaysia

With so much variety packed into such a relatively small area, you’ll feel like you’ve had several trips in one during holidays in Malaysia. On the mainland the ultra-modern capital Kuala Lumpur keeps pace with the biggest and the best of them, while sleepy colonial towns and cool tea plantations ease on the brakes. Borneo, jungle clad and garlanded by coral reefs and tropical beaches, is home to a veritable kaleidoscope of creatures great and small.

West Malaysia is south of Thailand and north of Singapore, and it’s where you’ll find the country’s renowned capital, Kuala Lumpur. There’s something for everyone here. In the centre, there’s a mix of futuristic skyscrapers, slick hotels, and shopping malls, while the surrounding suburbs celebrate the country’s many different communities, and pack in street food markets, mosques, and temples.

Sun worshippers flock to lovely Langkawi, a series of 99 isles in the north of West Malaysia, or Penang Island, in the west. Both are blessed with white, powdery sands and forested hills, plus a diverse marine life – the waters in these parts are teeming with rainbow-hued fish, finless porpoises, and humpback dolphins.

East Malaysia is located on the northern part of the island of Borneo. Here you’ll find sprawling rainforests packed with wildlife, as well as beautiful beaches, towering mountains and vast caves. One of the few remaining places to see orangutans in the wild, you can also spot proboscis monkeys, pygmy elephants, sun bears and plenty more besides.