Arrived yesterday about noon after a 12 hour train ride. Interesting cultural differences - Malaysia is a Muslim country - but a pleasant surprise is that people here are much more comfortable with English - so it was easy finding out where the bathroom was after all - the condition of it though, was another matter entirely!!
Spent our second day at one of the local areas of interest - Penang Hill - needed to take a funicular rail car about 700 meters to a very nice view point overlooking the city - also checked out some buildings and a bird sanctuary - money better spent than on that butterfly farm on Samui!! Then hiked down through a fairly dense jungle (monkeys and snakes and many interesting sounds) about 7 kms to the bottom. I am off early in the morning - by myself - to the Camerson Highlands. My travel buddy is opting for the beaches of Langowie and we will probably hook up again in a couple of days in Phuket of Krabbi.
Thats all for now - I'll be back in a couple of days!
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