Golden Wheel Hotel Pulau Penang

... to entertain! The first night we had Tom Yam Soup from a stall where you pick all you own ingredients from a wide array and put them in a dish, which you then hand over. It gets cooked in some sort of broth and delivered to your table! Delicious, and probably quite good for you! Unfortunately, J later struck up a cosy (but less healthy) rapport with the man who deep fries all his food. As a result we have also had a lot of deep fried tofu, spring rolls ...

... night. They sell pretty much everything there but i found the prices to be more expensive than in Thailand. The nightlife pretty much consists of a big open area food court. Once midnight hits the town pretty much shuts down, no niteclubs, no beach discos. Batu Ferringhi is a good place to go for a quiet beach holiday but i recommend you stay away if you're looking for a party place. After 3 nights there we headed to Georgetown, which is the main city on the island.

... felt as though he was giving us a look that said 'on your way'. We both felt extremely privileged to have had the experience. The road from Jeli is up and lucky for us the weather wasn't scorching hot. We knew that accommodation at Banding would be limited and that the Belum Resort was 5 star and rooms started at 350 RM. The lake at Banding is a nature reserve and by all accounts you can arrange trekking, and all the usual jungle activities from either the resort or from the ...

... Georgetown (an old British colonial town on the northeast tip of Penang island) quite late in the evening), we just wandered around in the local area. We headed to the Upper Penang entertainment area (which included the classily-named establishment 'Slippery Senoritas' as well as the famous colonial 'E & O Hotel'- sadly the whole area was out of our budget). We ended up at a local indoor night market. Rich and Chris watched the re-run of the previous night's football ...

I downloaded a few pages to my travel pod and had a cup of coffee. I wasn`t hungry from my feast last night so i got ready for the beach at Batu Ferringhi at the north of the island. I jumped onto the number 101 bus which took about half hour. I found a nice beach cafe right on the beach and decided to stay there all day. So had some fried rice for lunch and did some sunbathing and swimming until around 6.30pm, then i ...

... also went to Fort Cornwallis which was built for Captain Francis Light in 1786 (see I am learning as well as shopping and sunbathing!). The court system over here is a little strange and biased (no change there then I hear you say!) But the Muslim court overrules the Supreme Court of Malaysia so you certainly don't want to be a female against a Muslim! I spent the rest of the afternoon checking out the local shopping ...

... watching hundreds of devotes carrying pots of milk. The following morning, very excited, Liz and myself headed back to the Waterfall Temple for ...

... Unfortunately fireworks are banded in Malaysia so there were not too many firecrackers, that were ...

... kun lahen johonkin pain liikkeelle. Ai niin ja mua ei enaa saa kiinni samasta puhelinnumerosta vaan mulla on paikallinen prepaid, joten ei tarvii hataantya jos en vastaile tekstareihin parin paivan sisalla. Sillee.. Hyvat uudet vuodet kaikille kun en joulua ehtiny toivottamaan. Pitaakin menna raketteja ostamaan. Joita muuten myydaan, ilmeisesti turvallisuussyista, viinakaupassa. Alkaa nyt sitten rikkoko niita silmianne.

... siis ihan taysi viidakko. Vaelluksemme vei meidat sellaiselle rannalle kun Monkey beach. Todella mukava rauhallinen ranta. siella tuli sitten heiteltya freesbeeta ja uitua. Taalla Malesiassa on todella kuuma ilmasto on kokoajan hiki. Vesikin on sen lampoista ettei se enaan viilenna se vain kastelee. Mutta enpa hirveasti valita... Kun olimme kaikki uimassa vilkaisin rannallepain enka meinannut uskoa silmiani. Apina penkoo tavaroitamme ...