Dramatic rainforest, pristine beaches and rare wildlife are all reasons to visit Sarawak — but it’s also a place where jungle beats play long into the night. Every year Sarawak hosts the Rainforest World Music Festival, start planning a visit now.

From immaculate beaches to natural wonders, there are myriad reasons to visit Miri

Bario is a little corner of Borneo relatively unaffected by modern, Western influences. This community of villages is home to the Kelabit people, a largely self-sufficient tribe who will welcome you wholeheartedly into their homes — and their jungle.

Soup with noodles or noodles with soup? Either way, this spicy staple of Singapore and Malaysia is a fusion dish with a complex history and seemingly infinite variations.

Malaysia's capital has long been one of Southeast Asia's best places to eat, and the city's melting-pot cuisine is now sharing the stage with hip hotels and thriving street markets.

In Borneo's Batang Ai National Park, the Iban tribe share their ancestral knowledge of the 140-million-year-old rainforest they call home — and help to track down its most famous inhabitant: the orangutan.

The limestone hills that surround the city of Ipoh aren't on the tourist map but their strange formations made them worth casting as a 'character' in a novel