In this video I'm gonna talk about the five things I love about Malaysia! What
is going on YouTube. Greetings from my balcony here in beautiful Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia. I figured this was the perfect setting to talk about the things that I
love about Malaysia. I've mentioned this before I spent 20 years in the Navy and
one of the popular stops for navy ships is Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. I've been
coming here for a long time and I was fortunate enough to get to return with
Remote Year and live here for a month. When Remote Year is over I plan on
continuing to travel and I know Malaysia is going to be one of the spots that I add
to my rotation. So, I figured I'd share with you the five reasons I love
Malaysia. There are actually more but these are the top five for me personally. Okay
so first Malaysia is the perfect combination of old and new world
Malaysia really does have everything they have hip cool cities like the one
behind me they have quaint little villages they
have beaches they have mountains they have jungles just about anything you're
looking for you can find here in Malaysia in cities like Kuala Lumpur you
have the huge skyscrapers like the Petronas Tower is here behind me and it
used to be the tallest building in the world
you have ginormous malls that have the latest fashion trends and you have all
the hipster cafes and coffee shops all over the city but at the same time you
have the street food vendors the street markets the hawkers the really cool
local stuff if you feel like a traditional coffee you can pop into an
old-school coffee shop and get a co PC or if you feel like a pumpkin spice
latte there's a Starbucks on just about every block here as well it really is
the perfect combination of the old world and the new world here in Malaysia okay
so the next item on the list is the food I've said this a million times to
friends who want to travel for food go to Malaysia it
as the best food hands-down without question the Malay cuisine is just like
Malaysia itself it's very multicultural it's a blend of Malay Chinese Indian and
other Southeast Asian cuisines it's almost impossible not to find something
you like to eat here in Malaysia for me it's nasi lemak
that's the quintessential Malay dish and some people call it the national dish
it's amazing when you come to Malaysia make sure that's the first thing you try
you gotta try nasi lemak if you hear Malaysia if you're enjoying this video
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okay so the next thing I really love about Malaysia is the great tourist visa
for Westerners when I travel I like to stay at places and not have to worry
about a visa here Malaysia most Westerners get 90 days which is awesome
and much different than most of the places here in Southeast Asia Thailand
will give you 30 days and then you'll have to go and renew it same with Bali
other countries don't even give you a visa on arrival like Vietnam and Lao so
Malaysia is just a really easy place to get into and to stay a while if you want
to hang out here for me it makes it the ideal home base when traveling to
Southeast Asia and it's somewhere that I'm gonna spend a lot of time in in the
future because the visa is just so convenient for a westerner okay next on
the list malaysia continues to be one of the most affordable places that you can
travel to compared to other destinations you can stay in a world-class city like
the one I'm in right now Kuala Lumpur which rivals Hong Kong and Singapore or
you can stay in a really cool place like Georgetown down in Penang and it's
really affordable at 1/4 of the cost compared to somewhere like Hong Kong or
Singapore or Japan if you stay in a place like Kuala Lumpur you can get this
awesome view in a one-bedroom for about $600 a month an average dinner will cost
you about $3 kolo will cost you 60 cents and you can
get foo-foo coffee for under $2 here according to nomads list a local can
live for about 800 a month an expat for about a thousand a month and a digital
nomad could stay here for about 1200 a month so it's still really affordable to
stay in a world-class city like Kuala Lumpur if you head down to Georgetown
Penang you can stay for even cheaper than that a one-bedroom will cost you
around $260 a month a coca-cola will cost you about 50 cents you can get a
meal for under two dollars and you can get a foo-foo Coffee down there for
about a buck fifty Nomad lifts estimates the cost for locals in Georgetown at
about $400 a month for expats about 750 a month and for digital nomads about a
thousand a month so even more affordable down in Georgetown Penang a few years
ago it was listed as one of the Lonely Planet's top 5 places to visit so you
should definitely check out Georgetown if you come to Malaysia so the last
thing and probably Malaysia's greatest asset are its people you're not going to
get like the sweaty kha you get in Thailand or the excessive amount of
bowels you get in Japan but what you're gonna find is the extremely witty and
funny group of people that'll poke fun at you and poke fun at them themselves
they love to talk about their country their food and how multicultural
Malaysia is but not in a mean-spirited kind of way and a hey let's laugh at one
another kind of way everybody in Malaysia is either dude
babe or boss cuz I'm a little bit older I get called boss all the time if you're
a female you'll get called BAE by men and women
it's just terms of endearment that Malaysian people use and it's actually
pretty endearing if you ask me one of Malaysia's greatest strengths is its
multiculturalism it's amazing to me that despite having so many ethnic groups so
many religious groups they've been able to live pretty harmoniously over their
history and that's not to say everything is perfect but the rest of the world
could learn a lot from Malaysia on how to coexist okay so those are the five
reasons that I love Malaysia if you agree disagree or
you want to add some reasons to love Malaysia please comment below thanks for
watching