From Penang our plan was to continue moving south, stopping in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and Jakarta. That seemed like a lot of big cities in a row so before we embarked on that urban adventure we hopped over to the peaceful island of Langkawi for a few days of beach time. Langkawi doesn’t warrant its own blog post because for four days we did nothing but lie on the beach, read, swim and eat cheap Indian food. It was a…
Penang, Malaysia – I fell in love almost as soon as we got here but getting here was a bit of an adventure in and of itself. From Bangkok we took an overnight train south through the Thai peninsula to the Malaysia border. Trains don’t cross the border so we had to disembark, go through immigration and board another train to take us to Butterworth where we could catch the ferry to Penang. We arrived at the Malaysia border station…