Penang Trip

A few months back we made a spontaneous trip to Penang!

Binxy wanted to show her old friend Lenno around Malaysia and I needed an excuse to fly off to another state, so a trip was planned (all by Binxy. I was merely there for emotional support) and off we went!

Binxy, Lenno and Janice (fake names because why not)  rented a car and left earlier on Friday and I took the plane that night and met them at the airport because poor old me needed to work during the day.

We stayed at this reasonably priced hotel which later on became a problem because they had lousy management system and tried to get us to pay more than what was agreed.

 I can't remember the name of the hotel and for good reason because  we are not planning to ever go there again. 

Future customers of the Lousy Hotel do not fear though! 

Janice constructed a rather long and on point review about the hotel so if you are a responsible person who would read the reviews before booking cheap but suspicious looking hotels then you are safe.

The trip was suppose to be a short weekend vacation so we were determined to squeeze in as many food and places as we could.

Anyway, here are some of the places we went!

1. Penang Hill

Beautiful place located in Air Itam about 6 kilometres west of the city centre of George Town (according to Wikipedia haha). 

The boys wanted to hike all the way up whereas Binxy and I well,  we preferred the good ol' choo choo train. 

Long story short since it was getting a bit late to hike up we decided to take the train hehe.

That was probably my third time going to Penang Hill but it was my first time being there at night. If you ever feel like making a trip there I would definitely recommend going at night. 

You can patiently wait for the sun to go down and for darkness to slowly creep through the sky and donate your blood to some hungry Penang mosquitoes all at once.

Also as a bonus, look at the magical view!

Before the sun went down, we also saw a sign which says Monkey Cups a few kilometres away. 

So we got all excited and thought it would be an actual monkey probably playing with a cup or something along those lines only to realize a few minutes too late that Monkey Cups are actually periuk kera as in ...

This

Oh well.

2) Snake Temple

Left pretty quickly when we saw snakes hanging about freely on branches just above our heads. 

Before the horror

3) Clan Jetty ( I think)

We went to this market on this jetty thing but I can't remember the name of the place so I'm just going to assume it is Clan Jetty.

Interesting market with cute little souvenirs. 

I would have enjoyed it a bit more if the weather wasn't excruciatingly hot. 

But it was, and at one point I couldn't even think or see clearly anymore because I was just concentrating hard on how not to melt.

You would think after living in Malaysia with our sunny weather my whole life I would get used to the heat right. Well nope. Not the Penang jetty heat anyways.

Heat aside, we still managed to place our assess on the frying ground long enough to take a decent picture thanks to Binxy's persuasive skills hee.

4) Batu Feringghi Beach

We got to build sand castles which I like. 

And then they wanted to play card games which I didn't like. Haha..

5) Kek Lok Si 

Was definitely worth my money.

It was a huge temple with so many different parts to explore and you get to climb all the way up to the towers and just take in all the different details of the temple's design.

Also, at the bottom part of the entrance you get to buy kangkung and feed the turtles!! 

No monkey cups so this will do

We managed to squeeze in a lot of places and tried loads of yummy food during that short trip. But uploading the pictures I got on my Go Pro takes effort which is too much to ask for on a Sunday night. 

Besides, I think I've spammed enough for now.

All in all it was a really fun trip! I'm so happy and  thankful for mini getaways and new friends. I want to hug my cats now.

Night!