We were up early for our free breakfast at Hutton Lodge before
jumping on the 204 bus to Penang Hill funicular train. The train took
us to over 700m above sea level for an impressive view over
Georgetown. After seeing a Hindu temple at the top, the biggest
spiders we’ve seen in our lives and a couple of snakes on show, we
headed back down for some serious walking.

Georgetown has three official heritage walks but after looking at the
map we figured we could bundle them together and do them as one. We
saw some great colonial, Chinese and art-deco architechture and met
some lovely locals along the way. Little India was a particular
highlight as the sights and sounds were exactly what you would want
out of the place.

After getting slightly caught in a rain storm we headed back to our
hotel to tidy ourselves up before dinner. And what a dinner it turned
out to be! We went to the highly recommended De Tai Tong Cafe for the
best dim sum ever (sorry Zo & Paul – you would have loved it). It was
brought to your table by little old ladies with trollies and you just
pointed at what you wanted (we pretty much had the lot…twice).
Then, as the locals recommended it on t’internet, we tried the custard
tarts (!?) for dessert and they were truly amazing.

Finally we had arranged to meet back up with Sara and Paul (see photo
– they are the others) for our last night together. We shared a few
beers and stories before saying our final goodbyes (our itineraries
don’t match up so much now but we feel we will cross paths again
sometime in the future – at least we hope so).

Now we are back in our room waiting for the funeral prayer music to
finish across the road before going to sleep. Night night.