Malaysia, part 4- Penang City

Penang was probably our favorite part of our vacation, there was a pretty good mix of everything here: a historical district (UNESCO world heritage site), some museums, some art galleries, some beaches, and amazing and cheap food. seriously, I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.

This was one of a bunch of murals in the building below...

Again, I can't remember what this was called, but it was a clan/family lodge for one of the oldest Chinese clans in Penang, and is now partially a historical museum documenting that clan's history. The murals were amazing.

This is the famous temple at the base of Penang Hill (I think, again, terrible memory) Great vistas, and really cool temples.

We took a tour of a few old mansions in Penang, here's Jenny on the balcony of one of 'em.

Malaysia, part 3- Penang National Park

We spent four days in Penang, eating wonderful food, wandering around the UNESCO heritage sites and going for awesome hikes. These are some photos from the National Park that we hiked through for a few hours... which was a welcome relief after the absolute lack of any green spaces like this in Chittagong.

Jenny on our hike

Inside the forest/jungle..

Looking back at the mountain jungle we just hiked out of...

More jungle...

At the edge of a brackish lake, half sea water and half freshwater...

Malaysia, part 2- Batu Caves in KL

IN MALAYSIA, PART 2:

We went to the Batu Caves in Kuala Lumpur, (KL is awesome by the way)...

and i can't remember any of the significance of any of this so I'm going to make it up.

This is from inside the cave, and the locals call this the Portal to a Higher Plane. The Higher Plane is the top of the mountain that the cave is housed in.

Front of the Batu Caves. Lots of Hindu statuettes all over here, apparently some of the Malaysian population is Hindu.

Backside of a massive statue

Frontside of same statue. Also, looks up at the hundreds of steps to the cave, which sometimes are packed with people on certain religious holidays, which was terrifying to contemplate when we were climbing up.

This was my favorite statue of the day.

Malaysia, part 1- Bird Park

Hiya,

So Jenny and I went to Malaysia for our Winter break from work here at AUW, and here are some photos of some of the birds we saw at the Bird Park in Kuala Lumpur.

Some cool pigeons... they were a bit snooty towards the other normal pigeons though...

Kuala Lumpur

I don't remember what these are called, so I'm calling them Floyd's Flyers. A couple of Floyd's Flyers for you to see.

A peacock photo worthy of a stock photo catalogue.

This bird is red.