Penang, Malaysia

After spending a few days in Bangkok I flew down to Penang in Malaysia, where I met up with my friend Matt from home. We spent 3 nights here staying in Georgetown before heading onto Kuala Lumpur. I absolutely loved my time in Malaysia, and am quite missing it already!

Georgetown is a colonial town in Penang, and a great base for exploring the area. The food here and in Kuala Lumpur was amazing, and Penang had a lot of very cheap and delicious street food. We stayed at a great hostel and met some more travelers to hang out with, and I was even lucky enough to get the room to myself one night for the price of a dorm! Prices are definitely lower in Malaysia than Thailand which attracts a lot more tourists - we paid just £6 and £4 a night for accommodation here!

Our first day was spent exploring Penang National Park, which was excellent! We caught the local bus there and after eating a delicious curry at a roadside cafe we went for a hike to Turtle Beach, where as you can probably guess there was a turtle reserve! The beach was lovely, although the sand was burning hot! The turtles were very small and adorable to see.

Turtle Beach

Turtles!

On the way back we changed our route slightly to take in the canopy walk. We arrived a few minutes before it was meant to be closed, to find it was already shut, but fortunately we found someone who worked there who reopened half of it so we could go on it! It was an excellent canopy walk for only £1!

On our way back to the entrance of the park there was a nice little bit of sand where there were quite a few monkeys to watch playing around!

Our evening was spent visiting a great food court we found in Georgetown. I think this was the night where there was also an entertaining dance and singing show going on!

To be continued...