Can't travel? Don't worry! Read your way through Malaysia with these books


Lam Ching Fu's 'My Journey By Bus' (2019) is one of the books to take you to the small towns of Malaysia. Photo taken during the journey from Parit Buntar to Simpang Ampat on the Taiping Bus Route in February 2016. Photo: Lam Ching Fu

Many people have recently found their travel plans disrupted with the movement control order in full effect in the country to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. Even the Visit Malaysia 2020 campaign has been cancelled.

We don’t know for how long more this pandemic is going to last, which is bad news for travel lovers.

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