Participants of homestay programmes in Kuala Berang can also get to learn about the region’s rich past, writes ALIAS MOHAMED. UNLIKE most homestay programmes where participants experience the local way of life, the Kampung Buloh Homestay programme in Kuala Berang, Terengganu, offers a taste of history instead with tales of merchants from afar who came [...]

There is nothing like taking a break from the busy city life by relaxing in a kampung under the homestay programme. FROM Kuantan, I exit the Karak-Gombak highway at Genting Sempah. With only the mobile number of the person I spoke to a few days earlier, mixed emotions of eagerness and apprehension well up inside [...]

Curious to find out what life in a Malay village is like? Try a homestay. Homestays are becoming an increasingly popular activity in Malaysia, both with foreigners and locals. Life in a Malay village is sometimes as alien to the country’s urbanites as it is to the international visitors. With this in mind, Tourism Malaysia, [...]