Penang

We arrived in Penang fairly late, so our first evening consisted of Debs taking us on a short walk around the centre of Penang, so we could get our bearings. She took us to a Mosque (but we weren't allowed in there as most of us weren't appropriately dressed), a Hindu temple (we got shown around and a R.E lesson) and we watched a bit of a play in the chinese temple.

After all that religious education we went to "Little India" for a curry. We are not fans of indian curries but Debs advised us what to order and we both really enjoyed it.

The next day was spent at Penang Hill with some of our group. The view of Penang is supposed to be amazing and the bits we saw through the smog and haze was very nice. It took 45 mins by train to get to the top of the hill - it was incredibly steep. We had a little wander around at the top, looking for monkeys and avoiding the huge snakes that this bloke was foisting on people so they could have their pictures taken with it.

We decided it would be a good idea to take the local bus back to the hotel - but that ended up taking over an hour instead of 25 mins because 2 people couldn't decide whether to get on the bus.

We all went for dinner at the North Beach cafe and ordered some lovely malaysian food - pizza and beer.