MALAYSIA - THE PRESENT ASIA Christy and Scott, Canada Our trip to Malaysia started with the alarm clock at 5:30 am. We woke up and discovered that the window was still dark, and in clubs, located on the beach, the fun is still in full swing. Pack your "house" (we have started to take their backpacks, as our home), we decided not to miss the taxi that was to come after us to the entrance to the hotel at 6 o'clock. As usual, the taxi was late for half an hour (our ferry leaves at 7 am), we decided to call a taxi service to make sure that they have not forgotten about us. And, of course, after we called our taxi immediately announced. Pretty fun we got from Haad-Rin (resort area on the peninsula of Koh Pha Ngan, Thailand, prim.perev.) To Tong Sala pier. Taxi was packed to capacity: I was sitting in the front seat, our backpacks and my husband, Scott - in the background. In addition, the driver stopped at every intersection and every column, skipping forward absolutely everyone who met us on the road. We arrived at the wharf, found a suitable place and slept on the ground, using as a pillow guide "Lonely Planet: Southeast Asia. Travel a couple of dollars. "(I must say, it was quite comfortable to sleep). We woke up at 9:30, when the ferry is just approaching the wharf. At first we could not understand where we are, somehow assuming that we are on Koh Samui (an island in the Gulf of the Pacific Ocean, belongs to Thailand, prim.perev.). After an hour bus ride we were in the city of Surat Thani, where the bus station we had to wait for the minibus, which went through the city of Hat Yai to Malaysia. Georgetown waited in Surat Thani for about an hour, we boarded a minibus with 9 other passengers and hit the road for some country roads. I think it should be noted that if you have no friends in Surat Thani, then come here specifically does not make sense. We have nothing interesting in this town have not seen, except for a set of houses and Thai shops where you can repair a bicycle, computer, or buy food. The city does not attract tourists, except that it may be useful as a staging post, where you can wait for a bus or ferry. Journey to Hatyaya took us 4 hours, including a trip by bus, during which our driver entertained us with the fact that rubbing the windshield every 5 minutes. In Hatyaye our group split up again. Someone went to a more insecure border in the southeast, and we - on a quiet stretch of the border in Sadar city, which is located approximately in the middle of the peninsula. Cross the border was quite simple: put a stamp on what we left Thailand, and then boarded the bus. Then stamped on arrival in Malaysia, passed customs control of our backpacks and spent another 3 hours in a bus on the way to the city of Georgetown on the island of Penang. We were lucky, we have witnessed a violent thunderstorm with strong thunder and lightning that lit the sky brighter than the midday sun. Color Malaysian ringgit in Georgetown, we arrived at around 9 o'clock in the evening, quickly found a small hotel, which was called the Banana Guest House. " We had to slightly overpay for a room, because it was already quite late, and availability is almost no choice. We paid 70 ringgit (about 20 Canadian dollars) per room with air conditioning (the first time since we arrived in Asia for almost 2 months ago), own bathroom and the window (probably for him, we also paid). Chinatown The next day we woke up, we thought, at 11 am. Scott came down to pay for one day and suddenly remembered that in Malaysia a different time zone clock, it was necessary to move forward one hour. So it was already noon. Well, what we learned about it before booking a tour, which could be late for an hour. Malaysia - mainly Muslim country, although there is freedom of religion, and there are many Buddhists, Christians and Hindus (the main religious directions that we were able to observe). I think for this reason, it is best just to comply with the rules by which people live in this country - to dress so as to remain closed a little more body than usual: the shorts and skirts below the knees and shoulders should also be closed. Matching this description of clothes I wear in the summer at home when the temperature does not exceed 25 degrees and the humidity is practically zero, but the heat, which seems surpasses 45, it is not the best option. I'm not talking about that on the first day I was sweating so much that I felt as if I'm floating through the city. View of the Georgetown Stroll through the streets of Chinatown to the supermarket "Komtar, we noticed that stores either closed or on Saturdays, closed earlier than usual (and later we learned that on Sundays, shops are also mostly not working). So after staring at meaningless window dressing and continued sweating, we finally hit the Indian Quarter, which was very nice! Area was filled with different colors and music bhanga (folk music and dance in the region of Punjab, the territory of India and Pakistan, ca. Perevi.), And in the air an amazing aroma of spices. The remarkable part of the city! We even managed to find a fantastically delicious Indian food (I know it sounds incredible: Indian food found in the Indian quarter). I bought myself a better IAWG makhani with Masalov (chicken roasted over charcoal, with a mixture of spices, approx. Perevi.) In my life, and Scott enjoy a terrific tandoori chicken (marinated chicken baked in a tandoori oven, prim.perev.) With the pellet Naan. Yum! After a conversation on Skype (for Internet telephony, prim.perev.) With our family and friends who are waiting for us at home, we watched episode of "House" and went to sleep in the cooled to 29 degrees room (believe me, Then it seemed that 29 degrees - it's even slightly cool). Read more:
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