Happy New Years Eve! Today we woke up relatively early and took our bags to our new hotel (man did it feel like a long walk with all out stuff!). We then took a bus to Penang Hill which is a famous landmark here 735 metres above sea level. Thankfully there was a train that took you to the top and back. The queues for the train were long and confusing. There seems at first to be a semblance of order, though this soon dissipates into chaos once your ticket is ...

Today we flew to Penang, Malaysia! The border crossing in the airport was simple enough (SO much easier getting out of Thailand than into it!). The flight went well and from my research on the Internet we knew to catch the 501e bus to Georgetown from the airport. From talking to people on the bus we figured out which stop actually was Georgetown and upon arrival we used the free map from the airport to choose a direction to head in and try and find a hotel. ...