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About Malaysia Travel PlanMalaysia Travel Plan is a small specialist internet based Malaysia tour operator, offering you a unique way of travelling around Malaysia and Borneo. Travel exactly how you want to, when you want to. Our Malaysia travel specialists will help you build your own trip, handing you complete control of your holiday. We pride ourselves on providing excellent service levels which continue throughout the life of your booking.Malaysia Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel, an online adventure tour operator made by travellers for travellers. It is born out of the idea that there are hardly any independent travel options available for more adventurous travellers. Our trips are very individual, so we're able to use small-scale, authentic accommodation with local character and warm welcomes. With Rickshaw Travel, you won't find large group coach tours but instead you'll travel by trains, buses, private car, planes, and sometimes minibus. Flexibility and independence are fundamental, which is why we organise as much or as little as our clients wish. We also like to give something back to local communities, which is why we sponsor various charity projects. See our responsible travel page for more information. We're able to keep our prices low because we don't produce flashy brochures or run luxury shops. However you're more than welcome to visit our Malaysia specialists during your travel planning! We are based in Brighton, on the South Coast and we're the sister company of round the world specialists, Travel Nation. |
Sarah PooleyMalaysia Travel SpecialistMy passion for travel first began after studying for my Geography and Tourism degree at University. Completing my course, gave me the desire to go off and explore all the countries that I had been learning about and experience the variety of cultures and ways of life first hand.After university I set off on a six month adventure which included visiting countries within South-East Asia. One of my favourite countries I visited during my travels was Malaysia. Here I spent my time volunteering at Zoo Negara in the lively capital of Kuala Lumpur which involved working in the Ape Centre with the Orang-utans and Chimpanzees, and exploring the lush jungles of Borneo filled with an abundance of wildlife. I also spent some time making a home amongst the legendary headhunters of Borneo, and learning their local culture and crafts. After this project I travelled up the east-coast to the beautiful shores of the Perhentian Islands where I completed my advanced diving certificate. The waters here are truly amazing, filled with a variety of colourful local marine life from small Nudibranchs to Black-tip sharks. Since my first visit to Malaysia, I have been back to this amazing country again to travel to some of the places that I missed the first time. The main highlights of this trip were spending some time in the cool hills of the Cameron Highlands and on the colourful island of Penang. |
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Elisabeth Neighbour Malaysia Travel SpecialistI travelled to Malaysia during a 7 month trip around South East Asia last year. I first headed to Malacca, arriving by bus from Singapore; I was really surprised by the mix of architectural styles, colonial British and Chinese buildings all sitting comfortably together. I next travelled to Kota Kinabalu, on Borneo in search of rainforests and monkeys before heading to Brunei; I loved the wildlife and rainforests in Sabah and really want to go back!Spending Christmas with my friend and his family in Kuala Lumpur was an experience I will always remember; having local knowledge and advice is priceless too! The dazzling lights and skyscrapers of Kuala Lumpur were bigger and brighter than I expected, being around the Petronas Towers all lit up at night was a stunning sight. I moved onto the Cameron Highlands which was beautiful, huge vistas and luscious green tea bushes set among rolling hills. We drank local tea and ate scones in a café in Tanah Rata, something I didn’t expect to do in South East Asia! I next travelled to Penang for the beautiful beaches, bustling markets and delicious food. Malaysian food is amazing; with so many different influences it really captures the true Asian flavour – delicious! |
Arida AdamouMalaysia Travel SpecialistI have visited West Malaysia (the Malaysian peninsula) a couple of times. My first visit was back in 1994 when I travelled slowly overland from Thailand down to Singapore. If you have the time Malaysia is worth so much more than a brief stop-over in Kuala Lumpur. I had a great time exploring Penang with friends and sampling lots of spicy and exotic food. The old China Town was very atmospheric and Georgetown had a kind of faded grandeur and felt very Chinese.The beaches of Tioman Island and the Perhentian islands were quite unspoilt and the Cameron Highlands were lush and green with a cooler climate, a relaxed pace of life and strawberries were on the menu! The people were very welcoming and friendly everywhere we went. Next time I really want to head over to ‘the other side’ to Borneo (Sabah and Sarawak) and perhaps have a go at climbing Mount Kinabalu and see some exotic jungle creatures. |
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Haydn WrathManaging DirectorMalaysia Travel Plan is run by Haydn Wrath.I left the University of East Anglia in 1984 and escaped what seemed a very grim England by spending the rest of the 1980s travelling and working round the world. During this time I put in some usual stints as an English teacher in Tokyo, a landscape gardener in Sydney and a tarmac layer's assistant in Alaska. In 1990, I joined Bridge the World Travel Centre in London as manager of the World-wide department, where I was able to put my degree in Politics and Philosophy to good use. I fulfilled my ambition to set up a specialist travel company in 2001 when I founded Travel Nation, and later in 2006 set up Malaysia Travel Plan. I have visited Malaysia many times over the last couple of decades and am always utterly charmed by the people and the atmosphere there. Malaysia has so much going for it that it really can be all things to all people. Also of course, in common with so many other visitors, when in Malaysia, I am in food paradise...especially those Roti's they do ... |
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Malaysia Travel Plan, part of Rickshaw Travel Malaysia Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel. Rickshaw Travel is a UK based ABTA / ATOL bonded tour operator. We specialise in providing solutions for holiday makers who want to travel independently, taking in the highlights of a country, but with arrangements made in advance. Our travel style is to use comfortable, but smaller scale accommodation that has an authentic feel. We promote responsible tourism and also sponsor a number of community projects in the countries in which we operate.We also operate in the following 10 other countries in Asia and Latin America, where we offer trips of a similar style: |
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Your financial protection :Malaysia Travel Plan is part of Rickshaw Travel Ltd which is a fully licensed and bonded tour operator.We hold an Air Travel Organisers License (ATOL number 9728) issued by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). This means that in the unlikely event of our insolvency, any holiday arrangements made with us in conjunction with flights from the U.K. are 100% protected. In addition we are also members of ABTA (ABTA number Y0484). This means that in the unlikely event of our insolvency, any land only trips are 100% protected(i.e. where international flights haven't been booked through us). |
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