Pulau Penang Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

On my way to Georgetown I've noticed that Malaysia is way more clean and organized than Thailand. However, the biggest dissimilarity was people and the culture itself. Whilst most of Thai people are Buddhists, Malaysia consists of three different ethnic groups: Malaysians who are mainly Muslims, Indians and Chinese. Being the majority, Malay peo...

visited historical sites, temples, penang hill, and ate. the food here in malaysia is unbelievable. in fact i love it in malaysia so far. its pretty organized, got good public transportation, good food, good architecture, multicultural, and the people are really cool. everyone here seems to know at least 4-5 languages including english, and ever...

We just got into Penang yesterday after a 12hr+ minibus trip from Phuket. First thing we did was get some where to stay then we went in search of some food. It is soooooo cheap here, we eate pretty much enough for a family of 5 between us for less than 2 each! The stalls are all little carts on the side of the road, or to put it more accurately ...

So I spent 3 nights, 2 days in Penang. The first night me priority was to find food... I wand**ed the streets and found myself on some quiet dark street, I decided to find a big bright street asap as I'd heard th**e are occasionally muggings in dark streets in the area I was staying. I eventually found a kind of Indian-Malay greasy spoon cafe bu...

Kek Lok Si Temple is a beautiful temple which we spent nearly half a day at. Pictures speak a 1000 words, right? ;} We also went to the movies a lot. We saw Hitman, Enchanted, Beowulf on those rainy days. I just thought it would be cool to mention this, becuase there theatres are a little "nicer" then ours at home. When you buy your tickets, you...

After getting over not being able to watch The Simpsons movie on the Boeing 777 due to language difficulties (I'm no linguist, but I think it was randomly jumping from English to French, to German, to some Asia dialect, Homer is much funnier in english...), I was happy to be back in the tropics. There's something about getting off a plane with t...

Penang's okay, hardly typical Malaysia, more like Thailand really, with lots of bars and nightlife and such, with an added element of multiculturalism that comes from being a member of the Commonwealth, i.e. ethnic Chinese and Indians for the most part. The only problem is that everybody speaks English, so that’s hardly inspiring. Not all ...

I got straight to sleep on my night train and only woke when the attendant opened my privacy curtain and announced to me at 8am that we were in Hat Yai. I didn't need to get off or anything but he wanted to turn the beds into chairs again and have us all sitting. After Hat Yai we arrived at the border around 11am and I must say it was all made v...

Uggh. Trying to buy a plane ticket from Phuket to Bangkok and thai airways website is taking forever.... Finally! It is bought. Now I don't have to take a train into military-run Bangkok; I can just fly in the day I fly to Kathmandu and just hang out in the airport till my next flight. Ok, this entry is extra short, I have to pick up my laundry ...