15 Malaysian Travel Bloggers & Vloggers to Follow in 2026
Looking for Malaysian travel bloggers and vloggers to follow?
Malaysia has a growing community of travel creators documenting everything from China and Korea to hidden destinations around Malaysia, food, road trips, budget travel and cinematic adventures.
Whether you're planning your next trip or just looking for some travel inspiration, here are 15 Malaysian travel bloggers and vloggers worth following in 2026.
1. Arron Goh — ArronGoh.com
Best for: China & Asia travel guides + cinematic travel vlogs
Arron Goh started documenting his travels in 2025 through YouTube vlogs, but ArronGoh.com is gradually becoming something much bigger — a searchable directory of everywhere he travelled.
A big focus of the site is currently China travel, with first-hand guides covering destinations including Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Yunnan & Harbin.
Alongside trips around Korea, Thailand and other parts of Asia.
Each destination is gradually being connected with travel vlogs, attraction guides, hotels, restaurants, transportation tips and itineraries.
If you're planning your first trip to China or travelling around Asia, that's where I'd start.
2. May Ho
Best for: Lifestyle-led travel vlogs
May Ho is a Malaysian YouTuber who mixes travel with lifestyle and personal vlogging.
Her channel has built a substantial following over the years, with around 187,000 YouTube subscribers as of August 2026.
If you prefer travel videos that feel more like following someone's actual trip rather than watching a formal destination documentary, she's one creator worth checking out.
3. Ling Big Yong
Best for: Travel, lifestyle & educational storytelling
This one is a little personal for me. Ling Big Yong is actually my childhood friend, and I've watched his journey as a creator from the early days.
Many Malaysians probably know him from his original comedy videos and relatable sketches. He was one of the earlier Malaysian Chinese YouTubers to build a massive audience on the platform.
Today, his main YouTube channel has around 1.6 million subscribers and more than 619 million views.
But what's particularly interesting is how his content has evolved.
Over the years, he's moved beyond the comedy videos he originally became known for and started creating more lifestyle, informative and travel-focused content.
Recent profiles of his work similarly describe that evolution from scripted comedy and parody into more relaxed vlogs, conversations, informative travel videos and everyday storytelling.
I think that's noteworthy because creators don't have to stay trapped in the type of content that originally made them popular.
Your audience grows. You grow.
And sometimes the things you want to talk about change too.
For anyone who grew up watching Malaysian YouTube, Ling Big Yong is also an interesting example of how a creator can evolve their image while still bringing an existing audience along for the journey.
4. PlacesAndFoods — Wilson Ng & Rachel Ting
Best for: Food + family travel
PlacesAndFoods has been around the Malaysian blogging scene for a long time.
Created by Wilson Ng and Rachel Ting, the platform combines travel, food and family experiences in Malaysia and around the world.
They've worked with tourism organisations including Tourism Malaysia, Tourism Australia, Korea Tourism Organization and the Tourism Authority of Thailand, while their website and YouTube channel continue to publish travel content.
They're particularly useful if your trip planning revolves around the important question:
Where are we going to eat? 😂
5. Cupcake Aisyah
Best for: Lifestyle + overseas travel vlogs
Cupcake Aisyah isn't exclusively a travel creator, but travel makes up a significant part of her lifestyle content.
Her videos have covered destinations including South Korea, Bangkok, Paris and different parts of Malaysia.
She has a much more casual, personality-driven style than traditional travel-guide channels, making her a good option if you prefer watching the entire experience rather than only getting practical tips.
6. Ummi Goes Where?
Best for: Solo & budget travel
If you're interested in solo travelling, Ummi Goes Where? is one to check out.
Ummi is a Malaysian solo traveller whose content focuses on first-hand destination guides, practical travel tips and budget-conscious travelling.
Her travel history spans dozens of countries, making her content particularly relevant for people who want to travel independently without spending excessively.
7. Dayak Wanderer
Best for: Sarawak, Borneo & cultural travel
Dayak Wanderer offers something very different from many mainstream travel creators.
The platform is heavily rooted in Borneo and Sarawak, documenting destinations, nature and Dayak culture through the concept of bejalai — a traditional Iban idea connected to travelling in search of knowledge and experience.
If you're interested in discovering Malaysia beyond Kuala Lumpur, Penang and Langkawi, this is a particularly interesting one.
8. Travel with Lens
Best for: Detailed destination guides
Travel with Lens focuses strongly on practical travel information.
The Malaysian creator behind the channel documents destinations through comprehensive videos covering places around Malaysia as well as international trips.
Recent videos have included Everest Base Camp, New Zealand, Kedah, Perak and other destinations, while the channel describes its goal as creating references that travellers can actually use when planning trips.
This is less about flashy influencer content and more about:
Here's the place. Here's what we did. Here's what you need to know.
9. Saiful Nang — Rare TV
Best for: Culture, communities & unusual destinations
Saiful Nang approaches travel differently.
Rather than only visiting famous tourist attractions, his travel content frequently explores communities, cultures and stories that most travellers would otherwise never hear about.
His work through Rare TV has even been credited with bringing Malaysian attention to overseas communities such as the Cocos Malay community in Katanning, Western Australia.
Good travel content doesn't always have to be about pretty places.
Sometimes the people are the destination.
10. Ivor XianZ
Best for: Practical tips + trendy destinations
Ivor XianZ mixes travel, lifestyle and experimentation.
Her travel content often focuses on actually trying experiences herself and then explaining what was useful, overrated, strange or worth knowing.
That makes the videos particularly useful for younger travellers looking for both entertainment and practical travel ideas.
11. Asri Nawawi — BangKenteng
Best for: Campervan & Malaysian road trips
This one is for the road-trip people.
Asri Nawawi documents his travels using a tiny Daihatsu Hijet campervan nicknamed Oyen.
He's taken the campervan around Malaysia and into Thailand, documenting camping, driving and life on the road rather than conventional hotel-based tourism.
It's a completely different style of travelling — and that's exactly why he belongs on this list.
12. Mynn Lee
Best for: Malaysian destinations + lifestyle travel
Mynn Lee is another Malaysian creator whose work combines lifestyle and travel.
Her content frequently highlights destinations around Malaysia alongside international experiences, making her useful for discovering places closer to home as well as overseas travel inspiration.
She continues to appear in Malaysian travel-creator rankings and travel-industry lists.
13. Crystelle Lim
Best for: Short-form destination inspiration
Crystelle Lim represents the newer generation of travel creators where Instagram and short-form video play just as important a role as traditional blogging.
Her content focuses heavily on destinations and visually engaging travel experiences, with current Malaysian creator databases continuing to classify her among the country's notable travel creators.
If you prefer quickly discovering somewhere and then researching it yourself afterwards, this style of travel content works really well.
14. Menk Mahawangsa
Best for: Backpacking & overland adventure
Menk Mahawangsa is for travellers who like the journey as much as the destination.
One of the ideas behind his travel content has been the ambitious goal of travelling overland from Kuala Lumpur to Leicester, England on a shoestring budget.
That's already enough to tell you this isn't going to be luxury-resort content. 😂
Current travel-creator rankings continue to list Menk among Malaysian YouTube travel creators.
→ Watch Menk Mahawangsa on Youtube
15. Mark O'Dea
Best for: Malaysia travel, culture & entertaining local experiences
Mark O'Dea is a British-born creator who has built a large part of his YouTube career around life and travel in Malaysia.
His videos mix travel with entertainment, Malaysian food, culture, local experiences and everyday life — often from the perspective of someone discovering and appreciating Malaysia from the outside.
His channel has grown to more than 500,000 subscribers, making him one of the larger creators currently ranked in Malaysia's travel category.
What makes his content interesting is that it's not always about travelling somewhere exotic.
Sometimes it's simply about exploring Malaysia itself. Local food, cities, culture, people and experiences Malaysians might normally take for granted.
If you're looking for entertaining travel content with a strong Malaysia focus, he's a creator I'd recommend checking out.
Malaysian Travel Creators Are Becoming More Diverse
What I like about Malaysia's travel-creator scene is that there isn't really one definition of a travel blogger anymore.
You have:
cinematic filmmakers
solo travellers
food hunters
family travellers
backpackers
campervan travellers
travel bloggers
YouTube vloggers
and creators making destination guides for TikTok and Instagram.
Some creators make you want to travel.
Others help you figure out how to travel.
The goal with ArronGoh.com is to document the places we've actually experienced through travel films while building practical guides that someone can discover months or years later when they're planning the same trip.
So if you're planning a trip around China, Korea or Asia, you're welcome to start here.
And if there's another Malaysian travel creator you think deserves to be on this list, let me know — I'll continue updating this guide as I discover more.
Editor's note: This is an independently curated editorial list based on travel focus, usefulness, storytelling and variety rather than follower count alone. Arron Goh is also the publisher of this website and has included his own travel platform as the editor's pick.
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