Wandering, but not lost

If you think about english industry, Manchester is what pops into your head. In Victorian era it was dubbed "the Warehouse city" or "Cottonopolis" as its history is concerned with textile manufacturing during the industrial revolution. In 19th century people flocked to Manchester from the whole England, Scotland and Wales, the city began to grow uncontrollably. All kinds of industries were introduced, fatories and warehouses were raised rapidly and Manchester has become without challenge the first and greatest industrial city in the world. It had at its peak 108 cotton mills, and it's just one industry.

After two weeks of super intensive sightseeing the time has finally come to slow down and relax, for that we chose a less popular destination of Perhentian islands. The archipelago is located about 18km from the eastern shore of the peninsula and consists of two main islands, pulau Besar and pulau Kecil which literally mean "big island and small island". Perhentian means literally "a stopping point" because it was a stop on the trading route from Malaysia to Bangkok. 

Welcome to Malaysia! Not so far from the equator now, the temperature has risen up to humid 34 degrees at day, monsoons were heavier and we noticed fauna and flora was much more exotic. We caught a morning flight from Phnom Penh to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's metropolitan yet still super diverse capital. 

Phnom Penh was our last stop in Cambodia, it's the country's current capital. The hub of Khmer Empire and french colonists, located on the junction of Tonle Sap and Mekong river.