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| Nice bus! Only 3 seats wide so tons of room. | Waving goodbye to Raj and Nancy who have been the most incredible awesome hosts! | Typical view out the coach window - farms of palm trees. | Occasional clear-cut and ?burn? of an area of palms. Malaysia is one of the worlds largest producers of palm oil. | More hills to the east. | ||
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| "malay" means hilly and they do mean it! | Interesting shaped hills to the west | Our SPOT tracker track from north of KL up to Penang, with google's terrain map on, shows how hilly the country is. | Steep hills to the side of the road are terraced and then planted to help with erosion. | |||
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| Where the roadside goes through a rock cut, still terraced with both rain gutters to direct the flow, and ladders to climb up to maintain the terracing. | Crossing the bridge to the island of Penang, ships in the straits | Stairs down to a ballroom at the Equitorial Hotel, bride in her white gown down below about to join the guests. | View from the hotel balcony looking east/northeast down to the golf course and off in the distance, the north bridge to the mainland. | |||
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| Looking east | Looking south-east at the second bridge. | ||