Shangri-La Hotel - Penang Georgetown

... hotel apartment. The humidity and heat hit us forcefully so we had to take a pretty slow pace, but were shown around the nicest features of Georgetown, including yet another botanical garden, this one had wild monkeys jumping around! Yesterday Felicia brought us to our lovely 5* hotel, where we are lapping up the service and luxury for 3 days before a return to reality! Tim came ...

... my memory card got stuck in the comp and I didn't want to lose my pics- 5 and half hours I was on there until 1 in morn. Luckily the night staff changed over so I was able to fib about how long i'd been on there. <br><br>The next day It poured down all day in Penang!! The trip up to the hills was cancelled so we didn't have a very exciting time! Found a mall, and a dead monk in a glass box and that was about it! Got some more sandles as I kept falling over the broken sole on my others- not ...

... On the way a rather attractive yet obviously a prostitute girl obviously and purposefully tripped herself up into me and succeeded in grabbing my pocket; I can't be sure whether she was thieving or perhaps soliciting and her intended target was my ******, but either way I grabbed my wallet and told her in no uncertain terms to procreate with herself, to which she just giggled maniacally and tottered off down the street. It ...

... and see if I couldn&#8217;t get this puppy in my hot little hands for a fraction of the price. Here&#8217;s my attempt. Lo and behold &#8211; here is the patented Ian Method&#8482; of haggling: 1. Ask how much the item is. 2. Immediately counter the offer. Say it again to ingrain it in the vendor&#8217;s head. 3. When rejected, immediately ask what other ...

... and although not quite sure of its geographical location, he was aware of their presence in the Championship &#8211; a new best friend. Inevitably, he was a Man Ure fan, and had just returned from seeing them play in KL, however, he also had Bury as a second team and Gretna as a third &#8211; he now had a fourth, and another convert who will be looking out for one more team&#8217;s result on a Saturday, or at least Sunday here.<br><br>Another good day.<br>

... WILL ROCK! I'm so so excited. I'm so much more a nature person than a city/history buff. This last part of our adventure is mostly naturey rainforesty beachy stuff so I'm all hyped up about it. YAY. Okay that' it for now. (ps. Mulu Park also has the world's largest flower, the Rafflesia, aprox. 1 meter across! Annd ten different species of insectivorous plants! Isn't that cool?!)

... oppressor of American liberty), St. George's Church, a beautiful mosque, a funky Hindu Temple (they're all funky pink and lavender with elephant trunks protruding from the sculptures of dancing girls), and the oldest Buddhist temple on Penang built in 1808. I've been on this journey almost 11 weeks and am learning how to be a traveler instead of a tourist. Yesterday I walked to ...

... onwards, so I'm only going to be able to share a bit of it with you. :(] 4:30 the next morning a 'driver', who lives on the sofas in the foyer of our guesthouse, takes us across the bridge to the mainland for the early train. As he goes he points out the Tescos, the Wallmarts, the changes that have bulldozed the areas he has known. It's very sad, as we pass the great buildings that he tells us block the views of the sea he grew up with and his country seems to leave him behind.

... Little India which obviously provided good veggie food but there were also plenty of pure veggie Chinese places were all the Chinese dishes were cooked using meat substitutes. There would ...