Include Thaipusam, Malaysia in your travel plans for next January
Travel in January 2020 may have been rather limited, but there’s no reason to avoid planning attendance at a culturally explosive and memorable festival in 2021.
Meshalini Govender is a South African twenty-something dream chaser, bucket-lister and star-gazer, who revels in all forms of art. When she is not curled up with a piece of literature or a travel guide, she is scribbling down her own short fiction, teaching English in some corner of the world and traveling ceaselessly.
Travel in January 2020 may have been rather limited, but there’s no reason to avoid planning attendance at a culturally explosive and memorable festival in 2021.
Staying at home sure isn’t for everyone, and eager travellers roll around in restlessness – but, the truth is, even now, there are still silver linings.
For globe-trekkers and world-wanderers, the last few months have brought the bewilderment of confinement and the curious sensation of itchy feet.
After months of unanticipated pay cuts, job losses and stretching savings, we’ll need these tips to cheapen our travel when the world opens up again.