Truly this country never sleeps, during night disturbed by bikes
and cars, families on beach (a toddler playing in total dark after midnight!);
windstorm rattling shanty tin relentlessly, and some squeaky something before
dawn that sounded like a tribe of banshee birds. We can say truthfully that Paradise
LOOKS good.....
Spent the day exploring Georgetown - Fort
Cornwallis and story of Captain Francis Light; Queen Victoria Memorial Clock
Tower (60ft, one for every year of reign); walked through Little India and its
exotic spices and fabrics; saw Sin Temple; then Khoo Kongsi clan temple.
Sushi lunch, and picked up Garmin SD card holding rest of digi maps we’ll need for this trip. Went up 830mt Penang Hill in a funicular train (amazingly steep). Drove past Kek Lok Si temple, largest Buddist temple in SEA - 7 story pagoda of 10,000 Buddhas, 30mt bronze Kuan Yin statue. Supplied-up ready for border crossing into Thailand tomorrow - vehicle's full as a goog!
Rob is super impressed with that pose you made him do :)
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