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In the last journal we said that Penang wasnt the most enjoyable place we have visited so far, but we kind of take that back now as we've had a really good day today and yeasterday afternoon. Yesterday we visited Penang's highest peak, Penang Hill - a 30 minute climb up a cable car, very rickety and very slow! Views were pretty cool apart from the overhanging cloud and rain, its not always bright and shiny out here. Met an Australian Sailor, our very own Captain Birdseye - who's been sailing round the world for 8 years on his own yacht, what a life. Unfortunately he didn't offer us a lift to Langkawi, which we thought was a bit tight!
Today we thought we would be bored out of our minds, so we decided to use the local buses and head off for surrounding mediocre sights. First of all the Toy Musuem, apparently the biggest in the world, we'd say the smelliest in the world. Actually its probably the only one in the world cos its tiny, and very very boring, so boring we couldnt stop laughing! However it did take us back to our younger days. Then we visited the Snake Temple which actually proved to be quite a find. Once you enter the temple there are free roaming vipers, which are apparently drugged and dazed by the burning inscence? They basically looked like they were kipping and didn't really know we were there. We then went and had a look in the 'snake farm' around the corner, which housed a 7.5 metre reticulated python, which Chris merrily stroked, and flinched from when it moved. Gem was a wimp and wouldn't get in the cage but she did hold, but not very well, the Iguana. The guide also threw a live mouse into one of the non-venemous snakes cage, and we saw it attack, strangle and devour a mouse all in one. It was pretty quick and pretty grim! The guy also got out a King Cobra not far from where we were standing, on a stage thing, apparently they kill a person within 10 minutes, we didn't stand too close! He kept prodding it and stamping his foot to try and aggitate it, not the friendliest of animals.
So we are here now writing to you before heading back for our last night in the Merchant Hotel Penang, where we have a few tinnnies waiting in the fridge, all our budget can stretch to at the moment. We may try our luck later in a Trishaw, being taken around Little India to save our weary legs. You can see a trishaw in our pictures, some old guy riding a bike with a cart on the front, 3 - wheeler stylie, for lazy tourists to sit in! Saying that they do spend all day badgering you to get in the damn things, so we'll give in.
Speak soon, adios amigos x x
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