Penang - Langkawi: Island hoping in Malaysia

Georgetown, on the island of Penang is another nice colonial town, and like for our other 2 stops in Malaysia, we end up in Chinatown with its typical houses. We’re staying in a nice colonial house with wooden floors and big windows, a nice change from the windowless room of KL!

The place has some great food, like the rest of the country, and some weird fruits like these giant Jackfruits.

Typical food court in Malaysia, where you eat fresh stuff for about 1 €

But we have seen enough towns and think that it’s time to head to the beach. So, after only a couple of days of not doing much in Penang we move on to the next and Northern most Island of Malaysia called Langkawi. It's a 2 hours ride on a speed boat. And that's exactly how we had pictured it: perfect white sand beach and 30°C water!

"Our" beach: our hut is just behind the first coconut tree....

The beach is perfect for swimming and of course for sunset Yoga....

We also quickly found a nice backpackers‘ beach bar, just 100m from our hut, which happened to be the best bar on the whole beach.

And of course, it served great BBQ seafood and Malaysian noodles to unbeatable prices!

Fresh seafood BBQ!

Caro on her B'day enjoying fresh grilled curry squid, rice noodles,
and fresh coconut (we usually have on average 3 to 5 fresh coconuts per day here...)

Here's a local version of the dragon fruit, before opening, opened, and after eating.

David