Wednesday October 30

Fishing Boat deck

Fish Delivery

 We had a great day today. We wanted to tour the island of Penang and so we hired a taxi with driver and set off. Our first stop was at a fishing village right next to the entrance to Penang National Park. We watched some catches being unloaded and transported into town on motorcycle delivery vehicles. We clung to the pier posts when the motorcycles came by to avoid any incident. The pier was colourful and interesting.

We went next into the national park and hiked about 1 ½ kms into the jungle to reach a canopy walk. The walk was definitely the highlight of the day. It was a rope and wire construction, 250 meters long in 5 stages from tree to tree and it swung 15 meters high over the jungle. It was just plain fun to be up there!                                                

After we returned to our driver, we asked him to take us to two other fishing villages which were over the mountain and down on the coast. Trouble is, they were not on the coast nor were they fishing villages. This was one of the very few times that our Lonely Planet guidebook has been wrong.

Joan and Barb on Canopy Walk

  We then went to the Botanical Gardens. The highlight here was not the flowers but the many monkeys roaming the grounds. They are always fun to watch.

We finished our day with a drink on a rooftop bar overlooking Georgetown