The Plan is On !

How it all started eh? Well lets just say it was a build up and like they say once you have to, you get going. So it started with a thought of actually making it to international borders after having my UK visa rejected for some obvious reasons for which details will be provided separately. Now since it was already May 2015 and was time to decide for the year end vacations which matters most since my Birthday season too :P. So keeping in mind the below pointers I took my DECISION.

• The Currency, the money, the powers which beholds the world ; lol

  While making any travel plans ever the first thing which always hits you even before your destination is the budget. The Budget. Well in my case I think its been pretty straight forward, I always first see how much I can spend on the trip being thought of. This is the key factor in deciding any or all of my trips. So with my budget being around 50K – 60K INR. I had to decide something that gets done within this limit for 12 days during year end. Locked.

• The Options !

  Trust me when you get started with this, its a hard discussion. Best part it was for me to decide, hence not so time consuming else a discussion with families, friends, fiancé can be one hell of a task. keeping my goals (aboard, budget, first time solo travel and safety..(well duh, an Indian girl alone!! That too Muslim, breaking rules)) I decided to stick to Asia. Now as if Asia is small enough (lame joke) I figured my options, am not great fan of beaches, no Thailand, Indonesia naahh. Singapore, outside budget then !! Malaysia?? Well, yes why not I have few friends which I made while my professional tenure at the biggest Infrastructure firm around the globe and I think it was good choice. Conversion rate was like 1 Ringgit = 15 INR. This did made sense. Decided.

• Fixing the chosen destination into budget ensuring good stay & flight.

  This is the my favorite thing to do under planning !!! The stay & flight :) Hotel, B&B or Hostel. My friends during the hardships are Booking.com, Trivago.com, AirBnB, Skyscanner.com, Rome2rio.com, Tripadvisor.com, and The Google. The mind glowing prices ;) and breakthrough results after hours of research did led me to finding great places to stay and a good budget flight (Could have been cheaper though if AirAsia & I were in sync with their Sale timings)

  Details of my flights and stay will be disclosed (as you may say) in chapters to follow.

• The Stamp, The permit, Yes The VISA

  Google indeed sets the path for you. Since this post is being written after the fact, currently the Malaysian Tourist Visa is available to be applied online. Yayy. That’s right.

Though I had to physically go and submit the same documents at the VFS Centre New Delhi in the Year 2015 and later in the year 2016 the VFS Centre was moved to Chandigarh for manual application submission. Getting the process completed online is a great way to ease application process.

My Visa did get stamped, incase if you’ll are wondering about that stat ;)

See you on the Next Page !! With more details.