Penang Holiday 22-24 August 2007

Left home around 7.40am... and it was very smooth drive up to penang. Though along the way, there were many stretches of upgrading road works, where we have to drive one lanes.
Luckily this is not a heavy holiday season. Reached Penang just slightly after 11 am. And we are not even speeding over the highway limits.

How nice if we could drive the same speed and reach at the minimum time spent on the highways during festive holidays breaks ?


This time, we stayed at Holiday Inn, Batu Feringghi. Much nearer to the beach and more nearer to the Feringghi night market. The Family studio that we booked are spacious and large. For RM 529.00 nett per night, we gets a king sized bed, one single bed and a double bed together, all these together in one big room... probably measuring approximately 12' x 24' or maybe more...
A balcony, but facing the hillside... haha, no sea view. Large bathroom with bath tub, shower cubicle, a toilet bowl, and one sink but wide table. The downside of having everyone in one room, we have to take turns to bath and use the toilet... lol !

Had very fun time at the beach side, but little jing wasn't too keen having her feet on the sandy beach. The most we could get are her foot imprints on the sand.
It was causing so much discomfort for this little city girl, who seldom walks barefooted on soils or grass anyway.... :D

Troughout this trip, we spend more time at the hotel, more playing by the seaside and swimming.
All of us ended up more tanned ....

The slight improvements for this trip, we get to be a bit more adventurous in eating hawker's food... anyway, towards the last day we ended up eating KFC. Because everyone was too hot and tired to go elsewhere.

Second day, we visited Fort Conwalis, the first place where the british first steps their foots on this Penang island and build their fortress.
Well, we have to pay RM3 ( adults ) RM 2 ( kids ) to enter the premises.

There were these wild horses... totally free to roam wherever they wished to go.

The loud neighing are enough to deter everyone from getting too near to them.

Inside the compound, there is the first chapel built in Penang. But sadly, its bare inside, with nothing to indicate that it's been a small church. I wonder why there's not even one cross or any of its kind inside. Which reminds me of my primary school, convent sentul. It used to be runs by missionaries, the convents sisters. And i remember seing cross with jesus figurines hung in every classrooms. They were removed later when i was in standard 2. Even the cross inside our convent school badge were removed as well.

I felt, a history ground should had been left to its original states if possible. Anyway, the fortress building still stands is already a good thing, compared to the Portugues forts in Malacca.

There were a few prison's cells in a row, with the other cells among the same row being converted into some display galleries. Nothing much, some artifacts of broken chinas, stones, bricks, etc.
Some pictures and descriptions on the fort, the upgrading works. Each of these tiny gallery are fitted with an air-cond. A relief indeed from the hot evening weather.

The swing which replicated what sir Francis Light first had at the fort. Not sure if it's the same exact spot.

Swinging around.