A timber town that became a tin town, what seems like a ghost town but is great to explore.
A relaxed, laid-back town in the Melaka interior, where the district mosque sits on the square and the food is the reason people stop.
Gunung Baling rises 546 metres and makes Baling town one of the iconic places in Kedah.
Known as the Land of a Hundred Handshakes. A collection of kampungs in the Kelabit Highlands, a thousand metres up, with vast paddy fields and the mountains behind them.
An old town that’s not exactly a small town, Bukit Mertajam is busy, multicultural and built on trade, with Mertajam Hill and its forest park right behind.
The base for eco adventure in Kelantan’s interior. Gunung Stong, a 303-metre waterfall and limestone caves, all reached from a small town on the Galas River.
One of the largest fishing ports on the East Coast, where the seafood comes off the boats and into the restaurants on the same day.
1.5km of beach on Tioman’s west coast, with jungle behind it and the sea in front. The best thing about Kampung ABC is the people who live there.
The capital of Jelebu District, and a perfect small town. Kuala Klawang is where the surrounding kampungs come to trade, and where people stop for the food and the durian.
Pahang’s capital until 1955, Kuala Lipis sits where the Jelai and Lipis rivers meet, with a century of colonial buildings still standing along the streets.
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