Novotel Pulau Penang
Tanjung Bunga Pulau Penang, Pinang, 3961, Malaysia
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Farewell to George Town
... were introduced to another aspect of Asian culture. They do not rate their movies. They simply have zero tolerance for sex or bad language. Blood and violence is okay, but do not swear while you are killing your foe. So all the English movies they show tend to be either animations or children's flicks. A bit of a disappointment after spending 45 minutes trying to find the Cinemas!!
Anyway, came down to the 5th floor and found a great Sushi place ...
I thought Latin America bus rides were nail-biters
... of my favorite parts of this jam-packed first day of sight-seeing were the view from atop the KL Tower, the yummy vegetarian lunch, our "photo-shoot" in Merdeka Square with the kids on a field trip from Indonesia, and the Islamic Arts Museum (very informative, and some cool displays featuring textiles, old weapons and architectural models). Once again, I went to bed that night utterly exhausted!
My second (and last) full day in KL we took things a ...
Georgetown
... in front of them filled with various items (see picture below), open garage style stores with owners yelling at you to come in, entire families packed onto one scooter (and who needs helmets?)and cars/scooters parked everywhere! Its extremely different from home but we like it!
Afterward settling into our hostel, we set out to find food. They seem to eat everything in Asia..as you walk down the streets you are overwhelmed by smells of diverse food. ...
Toy Museum and Batu Ferringhi
16:09 I thought I'd look into flying to Borneo Malysia so went to Komtor to find out why Firefly appeared to offer a cheap flight but I couldn't find anything online. I found their office and discovered that the new route was so new it wasn't actually operating yet! Ok, well I will look at a couple more airlines but anything more than £50 for a round trip is too much. I wandered into the nearby shopping mall and was persuaded to get my haircut for under ...
Day 45
... who restored the mansion is a bit of a force of nature, I reckon if she was around back in the day she'd have put old Fatt Tze right in his place. But it was very interesting and all the furniture etc is beautiful.
Wandered down to Komtar, the shopping centre in Penang. However, it's not really a shopping centre, its more of an inescapable warren that is designed to entrap you in an air-conditioned shopping parallel universe. It ...


