All Posts Tagged With: "penang"

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Visa run – the story!!

We bought our train tickets a few days before we were due to leave Hua Hin for Malaysia but we hesitated getting a return ticket because we were not a 100% sure how long the trip/ visa process was going to take us.
Jon gave us a lift to the train station to catch the 18.24 [...]

22Dec2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Penang – Malaysia return journey!

Nothing about Star Lodge on Jl Lebuh Muntri had changed in the five months we have been away. The old Chinese men who work there at the front desk were as delightfully eccentric and as charmed by Tehya as they had been on our last visit. Always laughing and watching her with bright eyed amusement [...]

19Oct2008 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Kuala Lumpur and buses to Penang!!

Today was a day of information gathering and ticket buying – first we went back to KL Sentral to find out about trains…. it was so easy to get there, it cost about 1.20 RM each for Gavin and I (free for Tehya), it was just six stops from our hotel and it takes literally [...]

18Oct2008 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Tickets to Bali and Broken cameras!!!!

We have had a relaxing week since arriving here in Penang – on the whole it has been fun and chilled. We visited the 60th floor of the Komtar to see the amazing views of Penang. We certainly weren’t disappointed with the views (cost 15RM each) but sad to see the dilapidated state of the [...]

12May2008 | | 12 comments | Continued
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Penang on the West coast of Malaysia

Map of Penang on the west coast of Northern Malaysia
The bus journey over was uneventful and relatively easy for us – which makes a change. Usually bus journeys (or any kind of moving transportation) tend to be total nightmare. This did go uncharacteristically smoothly….. We drove through beautiful mountains covered with [...]

6May2008 | | 5 comments | Continued
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Malaysia Images – (if dragon icon on right click to see all images)

[gallery=5] 2Mar2008 | | 2 comments | Continued