Malaysia Travel Podcast with Aisyah Rahman

society, culture, places, travel, documentary, education · EN-US

This podcast travels through Malaysia the way a resident might: staying somewhere long enough to learn its pace, then moving on along a connected route. Malaysia's distinctiveness lies in its double geography — the Malay Peninsula, where most people live, and the states on Borneo — linked by histories of maritime trade through the Strait of Malacca. The host's range extends from the capital Kuala Lumpur south to Johor Bahru on the causeway to Singapore, then north through old tin-mining Ipoh towards the coast. It also crosses the South China Sea to Kuching in Sarawak, where the rivers and longhouses of the interior are a different world from the peninsula's hills and highlands. As the show unfolds, it follows the turning calendar: the southwest monsoon from April to October, the northeast monsoon that brings the east coast rains from October to February. The host returns to places across that rhythm, after floods, after festivals, after crowds have gone, building up a