Georgetown,
Malaysia
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
It felt like time stood still today. We got up early, had breakfast at the Malibu cafe again and headed to the bus station to get our VIP tickets for tomorrow. We then waited nearly 45 minutes for the bus that would take us to the tram station for Penang hill. It took us a further hour before we reached the hills but we stupidly got off at the wrong stop so we had to get a taxi to the tram station (another 10 ringgit on top of the 2 ringgit for the bus!). When we finally arrived we discovered that all the tickets for the tram had sold out until 4:30pm - six and a half hours later!! the cue for the tickets was snaking out the door so we chose not to go up the hill. Again we waited 45 minutes for the next bus and spent another hour before arriving where we had started today's trip. Back to the Malibu cafe for some lunch and some Internet access.
We did manage to do something today though. We managed to get into the Penang state museum - a small colonial building converted into a beautifully restored house containing various colonial furniture, paintings and equipment accompanied by explanations of the history of Penang from its discovery through the world wars and Independence, to todays multicultural society. Its worth the look if your doing the walk about heritage tour in George town.
