41st IVU World Vegfest - Malaysia, October 2013 - Overview

In 2013 the 41st IVU World Vegfest will combine with the 6th Asian Veg Congress, hosted by the Malaysian Vegetarian Society: 

                              Latest details from the Malaysian VegSoc
                       - see the links at the top for more details


                              The venue will be the Putra World Trade Centre (below) 
                              - with a range of accommodation close by
                              Patron: Sri Liow Tiong Lai, Minister of Health, Malaysia, and a vegetarian


Below is some background information and ideas about possible extensions to your trip:

- the 2013 Vegfest opens in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday October 3, and continues there to Sunday 6
- Monday 7 - tour of KL
optional extension:
- Tuesday 8 - travel north to Penang, followed by veg workshop and dinner
- Wednesday 9 - tour of Penang
- Thursday 10 - return to KL, or on to Phuket, Thailand

- there is a plan for an optional post-Vegfest trip over to Southern Thailand from the 10th (Penang is near the border) for the annual veg festival held across Thailand. Here's a report about their 2012 celebrations

If you want to extend your trip further, see below for Veg events in India, California, China, Australia and Argentina, just before or after the World Vegfest.

Travel Options to the IVU World Vegfest

A brief stop-over in Kuala Lumpur - October 2010 by the IVU Manager.



India
If you want to extend the trip, there will be a Vegan Festival in India the previous weekend - September 27-29.

- a blog about a similar vegan gathering in India in 2010, from the IVU Manager:
 
California
We have confirmation that the San Francisco Veg Festival, in the Golden Gate Park, will be the weekend before the IVU World Vegfest - Sept. 27-29. So if you're in North America (possibly elsewhere) you might want to stop off at this great event to break up the long journey.

The Vegsource Healthy Lifestyle Expo in Los Angeles is now confirmed as the weekend of October 18-20 - so you could stop of there on your way home. Details of that in due course.

See what we did at the 40th IVU World Vegfest in SF and LA, 2012

Australia
There are always a lot of veg events around Australia in the 2nd half of October, and it's very easy to get there from Malaysia. We'll be adding details of them soon - so you can include those if you want to catch up with friends and family there, or just visit this amazing country - more details

China
If you'd like to stop off in China instead of going to Thailand - there is the Xiamen International Vegetarian Food Fair 2013 to be held on Oct 10-13 - Xiamen in on the South-East Coast of China, opposite Taiwan, about four hours from Malaysia.   (in Chinese, with a link to the English version which should be updated soon...)

Latest details from the Malaysian VegSoc 2013 is scheduled 14 October 2013.


Argentina
7mo. VegFest Latinoamericano (UVLA - IVU) 9no. Congreso/VegFest Argentino (UVA) 2 y 3 de noviembre de 2013 - Buenos Aires - Argentina.
Estamos convocando a agrupaciones de LatinoAmérica y de Argentina para que se sumen y participen de un evento de inspiradoras energías para la región, un evento internacional que ofrece la oportunidad de mostrar un movimiento vegetariano poderoso y contundente. Tenemos la esperanza que muchas agrupaciones de América Latina y Argentina puedan estar presentes con sus novedades e iniciativas. Estamos recibiendo adhesiones, sugerencias y propuestas para organizar el evento vegetariano más importante en la historia de Argentina e hispanoamerica, escribir a This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  -  www.facebook.com/unionvegetariana

Travel Options for India and on to Malaysia

Below: some of the delegates to the South East Asia Veg Congress, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, November 2012 - come and meet all these great people in Malaysia 2013:

Keep up to date:

Facebook event page for Malaysia 2013

FB group for IVU Member & Supporters

- or just follow IVU on our public FB page

- or if you prefer updates by email - subscribe the Vegfest News - this is news only, not a discussion group

More info will be added here as it becomes available....