How about a Homestay Instead, When You Balik Kampung?

By Lim Sok Swan

May 2022 FEATURE
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RURAL FOLKS WHO have moved to the city for job opportunities have always looked forward to the festival seasons to balik kampung and celebrate with their families. But with rapid urbanisation, many villages are no longer the rural idylls of the past. How then, are these people nowadays to recharge from city life and experience the warm, tranquil ambiance of a kampung?There is another exciting option now available: Homestays.What Makes a Homestay?When people think of homestays, they typically think of...

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Lim Sok Swan

is currently focusing on heritage studies. She believes that more understanding among different groups and cultures can make Malaysia a better home for all.

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