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6D5N Penang Culture & Eco Experience
We met up with our private guide cum chaffeur, Gary Leong, at the Penang Airport and thereafter to the hotel to discuss our itinerary. With 6 days to spend our time in Penang, we could set our own pace and go for more natural experiences. This is a brief write-up of our travels:
Day 1
Check in at Hotel Red Rock. Swimming in pool. …
Penang
Sat 4th Dec
Really early start this morning, we were packed and ready to go by 7am. A 4 hour journey to Penang infront of us. The 4 hours felt much longer because instead of the nice bus we used before, we were cramped into a not-so spacious minivan.
We arrived at the hotel in Georgetown at around 11am and were told we could not check in …
Welcome Malaysia! : )
So now I'm in Penang, did't realise it was a small island linked to the mainland by the longest bridge in Asia! Guess I will have to brush up on my geography...
It was weird didn't really like this city as much, but it was ok. Checked out the surrounding areas by a tour saw the Fort Cornwallis and some temples...
Best thing was …
Malaysia - The Next 'Asian Tiger'?!
... Georgetown on Pulau Penang Island. Checked into a guesthouse, got some food at the hawker centre down by the harbor and strolled through Little India, which happened to have some kind of celebration with mini parade tonight. Nahm den Zug nach Butterworth am Morgen. Entlang endlosen Dschungels und Bergketten. Und sah eine Menge von Infrastruktur-Projekten wie neue Autobahnen, neue Bruecken, neue Fabriken und ...
Penang...wait...pheww...Hill
... and so off we went - wary of the many cobras! ... The further we climbed the insanely steep forest hill, the more I thought about what we had gotten ourselves into. We realised only 2 of the 10 Trekkers decided to go the forest route, so it was Marc, Bea and myself with a malay gentleman who couldn't speak English in the lead with no shirt on sweating like a pig, and another equally English illiterate walking behind us. We felt safe, but it was a weird safe... We started to get ...