Maliha Fairooz - Maliha Around The World

How to Prolong Summer under the Sicilian Sun

January 18, 2023November 16, 2022 by Maliha Fairooz

As a Bangladeshi living in Berlin, I am perpetually cold. The city has 1 month of proper summer when the native berliners or northern europeans … Read more

For the love of coffee: How I find home in a cup of coffee wherever I go.

January 17, 2023November 6, 2022 by Maliha Fairooz

There is an almost constant longing…for a home that once was. Longing because that home no longer exists and because it can never quite exist … Read more

My Love Story with Lebanon: 10 Amazing Things About This Ancient Country.

June 11, 2022 by Maliha Fairooz

I have been to Lebanon twice so far and both times its been incredible. I flew into the capital – Beirut, both times and made … Read more

How a quest to travel to a 100 countries brought me to the tiny island nation of Dominica.

May 18, 2022March 26, 2022 by Maliha Fairooz

I arrived in Dominica from Barbados. It was the second last stop on my world tour before I made my way back to my motherland. … Read more

Seychelles: From the perspective of a non honeymooner.

May 19, 2022July 22, 2021 by Maliha Fairooz

Perhaps the most ironic aspect of my reality is that I am both a hopeless romantic and a hopelessly unmarried person. This is not to … Read more

Karibu Kenya: 7 reasons this country should be on every Bangladeshi traveller’s bucket list!

May 19, 2022January 22, 2021 by Maliha Fairooz

For most Bangladeshis, Africa is a country, not a continent. If you tell your relatives you will be heading to Kenya for vacation, you will … Read more

10 Lessons I have learnt from living away from family in the past 10 years.

May 19, 2022December 20, 2019 by Maliha Fairooz

Picture this, it’s September 2009, and a somewhat tacky, scared, nervous, confused, and, most importantly, excited young Bangladeshi girl has arrived in the UK with … Read more

Visiting Cape Verde on a Bangladeshi Passport: A Transatlantic Travel Nightmare for The Third World Citizen.

May 20, 2022July 28, 2019 by Maliha Fairooz

If you are keen to find out whether or not you can visit Cape Verde on a Bangladeshi passport – the answer you will find online and on the country’s website is that you can do so by buying a e visa online and paying the airport tax and supplying the information for your travels such as reservations and ticket out of the country. However, if you want to know about these rules in practice: I will tell you this – don’t go there, it is no country for the third world citizen.