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Penang......

Next stop was Penang, a city on the wast of Malaysia about half way up the coast.
As backpackers we didnt find much to do here. Walked around, looked at some old buildings.

we hiked though a park one day to get to this beach called turtle beach. Sadly it was so average that i forgot to take pictures

But here is a picture of a building in china town.


Around the building there were wire sculptures like these that told about historical thing in the town. 
This one was about Jimmy Choo


Just some phone cases a found while wandering around one of the big malls.


While walking around the mall we decided to try some "SoyaSoya"


you got to pick your pudding flavour and they kind of pearls that you wanted on it. 
Looks delicious right?


This is how tasty it was:


One day after walking around we made our way to this park near the ocean because we heard there would be some sort of Chinese new year things happening. We got there to find out this was one of the locations that "Astro", the big broadcasting company , was hosting a televised celebration.


There was a whole tv crew, random hosts, performances like singing and dances.


Eventually we got bored and since we had been up and about all day we decided to go to sleep.

I ended up being in the shower when it was midnight and forgot that it was chinese new year and all the fireworks and firecrackers that went off scared me half to death.

I have more videos of the performances and ill try and update this post when I get a better internet connection


For more photos check the album on the left! 
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