'Pen in hand'

Penang 08/06/2013 - 11/06/2013

Day 1

We arrived in Penang and found a cheap dorm room, some guys had told us that there was a festival in georgetown. We went exploring, the festival actually runs all month, we had arrived on the opening day and there were hundreds of people flying kites of all shapes and sizes and playing drums. Food stalls were everywhere, it felt like a really nice welcome to a city that I ended up falling for.

All around the city there were buildings with various art installations and random collections of things that were involved with the festival. All of them were free to enter and there were random treasure hunts set up around the city.

In the evening we found somewhere that sold cider, I can't tell you how excited I was. Well... turns out carlsberg have made a 'Cider' called Somersby, it's actually never seen an apple. It reads on the ingredients, apple juice from concentrate and sugar :( basically it tasted like apple tango. AHHHHHH I was angry! Still am actually... bahah

Day 2

More exploring the city and the random hidden parts it had to offer, the food here was second to non. I could of happily stayed in a food court all day trying a bit of everything. Malaysia = FATTY!!!

We tried some homemade Indian sweets (I couldn't tell you what they were) and visited a toy museum.

 CREEPY!!!!

The first edition of superman comic, apparently worth 2.5 million, woah!

Day 3

Mostly spent sorting out our Thai visa but in between we managed to find a few interesting things while we waited.

After we had picked up our visas, we took a bus out to the national park, unfortunately it was quite late in the day, we didn't find much before getting hungry and heading back. We found a waterfall that was marked on the map but i don't really think you can call this a waterfall...

Yeah!!!!!!?

We left early the next day for Langkawi. We'd devised a route that meant instead of getting the ferry straight from Penang to Langkawi, we got a ferry, then a bus then a taxi and then another ferry. It worked out half the price so we set off. The whole day went without a hitch and everything was perfectly timed.