Day 16
The last of the beach days
Penang does not offer many beaches, but the ones that are on offer are FULL of little bars, restaurants, people and all sorts of water sports. Batu Ferringhi is the best one of the bunch and is about a 40 minute bus ride from Georgetown (bus 101). Although, because Penang is a little less touristy, many of the locals are still wearing full burkas and you feel kinda naked to be in a bikini, therefore we avoided the Muslim men who liked to have a stare and found a little spot to frolic in the water.
Batu Ferringhi is a long long beach and its fairly beautiful, but not a patch on the Thailand islands like Koh Phangnan. Its most famous for the water sports available and the fact it is one of the only unpolluted beaches on Penang.
We found a place called the Sunflower bar to have lunch and went for the catch of the day. We got an entire seabass with salted fish rice and it was INCREDIBLE. I am a fussy fish eater (ie. I don't really eat fish) and I ate so much that we licked the plate clean. We later went walking down the beach to watch all the water sports that were taking place (we later realised we had left the towel back at the bar and had to walk the entire way back). We were tempted to go banana boating but unfortunately we only had brought enough money with us for the bus home and so we just sat to watch.
However, as we were innocently watching a sky parachute water thing decided to crash land right where we were sitting, which cracked me up so much as we discovered Josh's shoes were under the parachute. We also had to try some random ice creams like Josh's banana one that actually had Jelly in and one that ended up tasting like a magnum. In Malaysia we found they put Jelly in most things, like DRINKS. This is a weird experience to be glugging a Fanta-rip-off and finding small lumps of Jelly in the can.
The rest of the evening we spent eating at a curry house called Kaspian in 'Little India' with the best curry I have eaten and an amazing array of dishes, also as it was Diwali then the whole city was covered in lights and fireworks were randomly going off. The walk home also included a scary guard dog barking at us, spotting rats ** (gross) and drinking at the Reggae bar. Trust me, Reggae bars are the place to go. Free drinks to lady travellers and a pretty decent atmosphere. We met the most people at these bars.
The last of the beach days
Penang does not offer many beaches, but the ones that are on offer are FULL of little bars, restaurants, people and all sorts of water sports. Batu Ferringhi is the best one of the bunch and is about a 40 minute bus ride from Georgetown (bus 101). Although, because Penang is a little less touristy, many of the locals are still wearing full burkas and you feel kinda naked to be in a bikini, therefore we avoided the Muslim men who liked to have a stare and found a little spot to frolic in the water.
Batu Ferringhi is a long long beach and its fairly beautiful, but not a patch on the Thailand islands like Koh Phangnan. Its most famous for the water sports available and the fact it is one of the only unpolluted beaches on Penang.
We found a place called the Sunflower bar to have lunch and went for the catch of the day. We got an entire seabass with salted fish rice and it was INCREDIBLE. I am a fussy fish eater (ie. I don't really eat fish) and I ate so much that we licked the plate clean. We later went walking down the beach to watch all the water sports that were taking place (we later realised we had left the towel back at the bar and had to walk the entire way back). We were tempted to go banana boating but unfortunately we only had brought enough money with us for the bus home and so we just sat to watch.
However, as we were innocently watching a sky parachute water thing decided to crash land right where we were sitting, which cracked me up so much as we discovered Josh's shoes were under the parachute. We also had to try some random ice creams like Josh's banana one that actually had Jelly in and one that ended up tasting like a magnum. In Malaysia we found they put Jelly in most things, like DRINKS. This is a weird experience to be glugging a Fanta-rip-off and finding small lumps of Jelly in the can.
The rest of the evening we spent eating at a curry house called Kaspian in 'Little India' with the best curry I have eaten and an amazing array of dishes, also as it was Diwali then the whole city was covered in lights and fireworks were randomly going off. The walk home also included a scary guard dog barking at us, spotting rats ** (gross) and drinking at the Reggae bar. Trust me, Reggae bars are the place to go. Free drinks to lady travellers and a pretty decent atmosphere. We met the most people at these bars.
** There are a few rats in Penang, partly because they used to have sewers running around the city and although they are not used anymore they still make brilliant runs for the rats. However, don't let this put anyone off visiting Penang as they are rare to spot and also the city is gradually blocking off the old sewers meaning there are only a few remaining in the cheaper areas of town, away from the hostels and bars!!
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