Hello Malaysia
We arrived in George town at night and walked around for what seemed like a long time before we finally settled on a guest house. It was an old Chinese wharehouse that had been converted to turn of the century boarding rooms. The place was neat, but the mattress was thin and it was overpriced, so the next day we moved on to someplace with less character……and a better deal. We stayed in China town and little India was just down the road. China town was pretty old and well preserved while little India was like a carnival. It was Deepavali so there was music and dancing in the streets. Georgetown was our first introduction to Malaysian eating and we were thoroughly impressed. We ate dim sum for breakfast and banana leaf rice and curry sets for dinner. Delicious. All of it. Oh so good. There is limited sightseeing in Georgetown. I went to the old British fort and an Islamic museum. Both were OK. We also went to Penang hil and that was cool. It was about an hour bus ride outside of town and another 45 minute trolley ride to the top….sort of like a smaller Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. The views were good and we went on a canopy walk high in the tall trees. I, being afraid of heights, broke a sweat and didn’t enjoy it until I was safely on solid ground again. That same afternoon we headed off to the train station and took the ‘polar express’ to Kuala Lampur. They blasted the AC until it was uncomfortably cold. Poor Erica got so cold that she put on three layers of clothes and still shivered. In KL was hopped on yet another, more reasonably climate controlled, and headed to Singapore for Thanksgiving.
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