Walked down to Komtar bus terminal again, took a bus towards Gurney Drive. I started walking towards the botanical gardens area, and some temple or other on the way too, but realised it was going to be about three kilometres each way and probably just a bit too far given limited time. Walked through the malls on Gurney Drive instead, seems to be a higher class district and had a lot better looking shopping and restaurant options, too bad it wasn't very close to the city centre. Possibly due to the public holiday there was nobody around either. I should mention the shopping experience is just dreadful, particularly in an empty store, as soon as you enter you get one of the staff members just follow you around not saying anything, so awkward. I'm sure I've encountered this previously, but had thankfully forgotten about it.
There was no beach to see on Gurney Drive, I think it only starts further down the coast, instead you just get a fence as they are doing some land reclamation project that looked to be inactive.
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| Gurney Drive, nothing to see here. |
Just had a bit of time to go back to the city, explore a bit more and get some lunch, but failed to find a good magnet! The taxi to the airport and check-in went much quicker than expected, so got stuck at the airport for over an hour. So in conclusion, I don't think afternoon flights work well, you can't plan out a full day or do anything that is a risk of being delayed, but at least I had time to find a magnet before taking off.
- Penang
- 6 out of 10
- Good
- Cheap
- Street art
- Bad
- Bus travel times
- No credit cards
- Traffic
- Missed out
- Bayan Baru
- Botanic Gardens and hill temple
- Penang national park
- Teluk Bahang
Landed in KL about 5:30pm, got the airport train, then had to change lines and buy a Touch n Go card for the rest of the train network. Their system makes Myki look good. The Touch n Go seems to be a new card which is multi-purpose, you can use it on toll roads for example, except almost no train stations have the recharge machines for them still. All the locals seem to be sticking to the old MYrapid card, which has several machines at every station.
The hotel was inside a large shopping mall, so it was easy to find. Also convenient having lots of food options nearby for a late dinner, but there was no vegetarian alternative most of the time, which was a recurring problem. Landed on a place with a sushi train, but also had proper meals to order off a tablet, much better than having to call a waiter. Somehow I managed to order the same meal three ways - tempura with rice, tempura by itself, rice by itself. Finally got to pay with a credit card again.
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| What you get when you're not paying attention. |
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| Paul Blart doing the rounds. |
Steps: 19,500 (3.5 hours)
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