Monday, 6 August 2007

The Pearl of the Orient

Old Penang is filled with beautiful buildings and stories of colonial intrigue and fortunes won and lost. We have camped out here for 5 days enjoying the street food and the air conditioning (inside). Outside our shirts stuck to our backs in approximately 3.7 seconds.


We also got an early taste of potential train journeys in India by packing ourselves into a cable car travelling at the speed of slug up Penang Hill to get a view of the haze (and the monkeys). Imagine 100 people packed into the Wellington cable car in 35 degree heat with armpits aloft. At least Shaun's head was higher than most of the pits. Mine wasn't.

Next stop Thailand! M

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fonzy you're pulling the shaven head look off suprisingly well.