If you think about heading to Johor Bahru, you are more likely to be a victim of petty theft than violent crime (unless you run into a drug trade), but you would want to avoid being a victim of any crime.

If you decide to walk around the city of Johor Bahru, don’t do it alone because this is one of the easiest and best ways to be safe and try to keep it to day hours.

Secondly, if you are purchasing anything, please use change or small bills, if possible, don’t show your wallet or money to anyone and keep it close to your body, refrain from “wow, that was cheap or saying something like that.

If you are wealthy or even reasonably so for that area, don’t do anything to show your wealth, keep jewelry to minimum and clothing simple

Be cautious of strangers asking for change, ignore them because if they have your attention, you are more likely to be mugged at a knife point, better act disinterested and keep walking.

Finally, and completely different from your personal safety, be careful about water in Johor Bahru, boil all tap water and if possible drink only bottled water.

It is the southernmost city in Malaysia, thousands of travellers hit this city on their way from Thailand to Singapore. It is the second largest city in Malaysia after Kuala Lumpur. Because of the extremely large flow of tourists the city of Johor Bahru has developed into a real hub of heritage attractions, great variety of cultures, awesome cuisine and hundreds of fun things to do.

No one will ever get bored in this lovely place as there are hundreds of shopping malls, handicraft shops, exhibitions, bazaars and night markets to wonder around and get some souvenirs. Johor Bahru City Square is very famous for delivering great quality goods to shoppers of any expectations. It is situated in the Central Business District

Incredibly interesting side of Johor Bahru is its night life. As soon as it gets dark you can see thousands of food stalls and vendors appearing literally from nowhere, bringing some fabulous cuisine as well as an extremely great variety of local drinks such as ‘Chai’.

Taking a cab is a very common and cheap (not as cheap as taking the local bus) way to travel around the city as nearly every city cab is supposed to have a meter. The fare prices double after the midnight.

KTM (local train system) offers numerous services connecting Johor Bahru with every Malaysian state and can even take you to Singapore in no time. Tourists who prefer to travel by sea may do so by taking a ferry from Tanjung Belungkor ferry station in Johor Bahru straight to Changi Point in Singapore, the journey will satisfy absolutely anyone who is in love with the sea.

The weather in Johor Bahru is the same as the everywhere in Malaysia; the Malaysian climate is categorized as an equatorial because the country is located near the equator, being hot and humid throughout year.

The annual rainfall exceeds 2000mm a year and the average temperature is 27 degrees (81 F).

Malaysia faces two monsoon wind seasons, the Southwest monsoon from late May to September and the Northeast monsoon wind from November to March.

The northeast monsoon brings in more rainfall compared to southwest monsoon. The records suggest that the highest temperature was recorded in Chuping Perils on the 9^th April 1998 at 40.1 degrees (104.2 F) and the lowest rainfall was recorded on the 6^th January 1967 at 608mm in kota Bharu, Kelantan and the highest in Sandakan, Sabah at 5687mm in 2006.

The wettest place in Malaysia is Kuching Sarawak with the average rainfall of 4128mm with 247days of rain a year, and the driest place in Malaysia is Chuping Perils with the average rainfall of only 1746mm a year.

What can be better than a refreshing visit to one of the most famous Malaysia’s hill resorts. Think of seeing tea plantations and vegetable farms on a very nice and sunny days at almost 2 KM above sea level.

It is situated north-west of Pahang in cool fresh air, away from noise and pollution of the city. If you would like to rent a car and drive there it is going to take around 3-4 hours from Kuala Lumpur (295km drive through breathtaking green jungle), the fastest way to drive there is to take the expressway near Tapah town. A lot of people prefer driving to taking a tour with a travel agency since driving itself can be an eye candy. There are a couple of really nice places to stop by such as Kuala Woh Forest Recreation Park where you can have fun at a hot spring.

There are quite a few companies that organise tours to the Cameron Highlands that arrange pickup service from major hotels of Kuala Lumpur (RM320 adult, RM200 child).  Most travellers prefer to leave in the morning and come back in the evening, since there are a lot of things to see it is usually better to spend the whole day, you really wouldn’t want to rush.

Tours will take you to the tea plantation, where tea-making process will be revealed to you in front of your eyes, strawberry farm can delight your eyes with bright-red coloured strawberries in the amount you could only dream about, butterfly park, where you can find some astonishing looking species of the most exotic butterflies and take some photos, a rose garden (no need to say anything if you understand the value of pretty flowers).

Absolutely any nature lover will be happy to spend a day in an incredibly green paradise of Cameron hills, they are literally too green.