Day 22 is spent wandering the city.
Georgetown was originally settled by the British so there is an interesting collection of heritage buildings and architectural styles throughout the city – Colonial, Art Deco, Chinese, Muslim and Modern.
As part of our wandering we go for a tour of Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, aka “La Mansion Bleu”.
The tour is by far one of the highlights of our stay in Georgetown. The tour guide, Joann is fabulous!! Her knowledge of little details about the architecture of the mansion and her enthusiasm for her job definitely keeps our attention. The house is a wonderful success story of restoration in Georgetown.
Check it out - www.cheongfatttzemansion.com.
On Day 22 we discover shandies come in apple flavour!! Our shandy knowledge is growing day by day.
We spend the morning of Day 23 sorting our next place of travel. Plan A had been to take a ferry from Georgetown to Sumatra, Indonesia. However due to the recent earthquakes over there we decide it’s probably not a good time to visit. So Plan B is to head to Borneo, Malaysia and Brunei!
Since the morning was spent organizing and completing the logistics of our next trip, we spend the afternoon getting our heartbeats going and hike up Penang Hill, which is 800m above sea level. It’s a 5 km hike uphill the entire way and we successfully do it in under 2 hours. Of course, after the hike, we opt to take the cable car down.
On Day 24 we follow tradition and head to the beach at Batu Ferringhi for some rest and relaxation. The beach, which is along the east coast of Pulau Penang, is great but slightly overrun with water sport vendors… truly a resort town.
The day finishes with a major rainfall. Rainy season has started in Malaysia and we have been getting regular rainfalls. However, the majority of them have been in the evenings so no complaints here. It also breaks up the monotony of the warmth and the sunshine and the - oh, who am I kidding?! There’s no monotony!! The weather is AWESOME!!!
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