4D3N Couple trip to Penang, Malaysia

Finally !! The most anticipated holiday this year come to me !! You might wonder, it's only a short trip to Penang, why have to be so excited. For me, it's kinda special since I'm going with my boyfriend and I will visit his parents for the first time (〃ー〃) (nervous and shy and excited, mixed feeling !!)

But, put that all aside, since I never wrote down any of my trip to Penang, I decided to write one post about it. I've been to Penang for a lot times since I was young, mainly is to eat and accompanying my mom for routine medical check-up. I still visit Penang but only for special occasion such as my colleague wedding on last 2016 or the most recent earlier this year on January for bonding with my church mate =) Now, I'm going again for more special reason, visiting my boyfriend parents o(^▽^)o

Anyway, in this post, I'll post on my flight itinerary as well as the places we visited =) There isn't much place though as we were quite packed with family matter (didn't even know my parents will be at Penang too) Leggo !!

FLIGHT ITINERARY

I searched my flight using Skyscanner and managed to get cheaper tickets for our travel period (it is Singapore's National Day hence the prices of the tickets skyrocketing too. Probably because everyone needed a getaway =)) Thankfully I managed to snatch tickets at the price of $ by Malaysia Airlines.

I was quite disappointed though cause for the flights timing back to Singapore was changed =( Supposedly we can take the flight back at 2pm (hence shorter layover timing and I can get to spend more time with boyfriend family), but it was rescheduled to freaking 9.55am !! AND THE LAYOVER TIME !!! It became 5 hours, dang it !! But luckily, we managed to go to Mitsui Outlet Park KL Sepang and did some window shopping there =) Oh, and I got a pair of Nike Shoe + running pants (totally worth it man !!!)

Our flight itinerary

To be honest, I was quite stressed at Mitsui because of the tardiness of the bus driver .They never follow the schedule timing that they gave us. I was so stressed that I might missed the flight or if there was long queue at immigration and all these stuffs to the point my boyfriend was stressed too LOL. Sorry boyfriend for being so fussy on timing =p and I keep on complaining hehehehe (thanks for your understanding !!!)

The screenshot of the bus timing. We were supposed to take the 14.20 bus from Mitsui, however, the bus driver decided to go for his lunch and all of us can only take the bus at 14.50. I can hear people complaining (myself included !!) and some actually took the taxi as they couldn't wait longer. Imagine if you miss the flight just because of this =(

PLACE WE VISITED

To be honest, we did not managed to visit all the places in my list. We only managed to go few such as Chew Jetty, few of the street arts, Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi, Kek Lok Si temple, and Penang Hill. Meanwhile for the cafe, we only managed to visit China House and Awesome Canteen. The rest of the time, we spent it at the car (thanks to traffic jam) and spent with family (drinking tea or having meal). I know nothing much I can share with you but hope this post will intrigue you to visit Penang more (even you've visited, you probably would like to visit again for the food HAHAHA)

I will only touch a bit on all the places, but will go into details for Penang Hill. I really want you guys to go to this place call The Habitat Penang Hill. It is really a place that I never have expected exist in Malaysia LOL. So I will definitely write a special entry just for this place =) Meanwhile the rest of the place that I visited will be written down here =)

Chew Jetty

Think most of the people will heard and visited this place by now. One of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, and you can have decent scenery from here =) There are quite a number of shops selling clothes or others stuffs (PS: The price is quite expensive as this has become one of tourist area, don't convert it to SGD and says it cheap!!)

We had a short walk and had our Durian Ice Cream (freshly made!! we waited for 5mins+ for the guy to prepare it). The cost is at RM10.00 (approx SGD3.00+) but worth it since it's very hot that day. Scroll down to see the pictures that we gotten at this place =)

Location: Weld Quay, 10300 George Town, Pulau Pinang
Entrace fee: FREE !!
Opening hour from 9AM to 9PM

At the entrance =)

The blue sky at Chew Jetty

Panorama shoot using my P20Pro at Chew Jetty

Freshly made Durian Ice Cream =)

Picture taken at the entrance of the Durian Ice-cream stall =) 

Street Arts
Everyone surely knows that Penang is famous for their street art ! Especially the picture below =)

The most famous street art =)

You have to wait quite a long queue for this one. Since I'm not the type keen to have my picture being taken (I like to take picture, don't get me wrong ok hahaha), so I just took the art photo and walked passed by hahaha. I did not managed to get a lot, so scroll down for all the pictures I have =) I did not captioned every single pictures, cause to be very honest, I don't know what to put on the caption ! 😂

Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi and Kek Lok Si temple

I believe these two places are the top most visited =) you can't simply miss the wonderful architecture of the temples !! It's my first time to step to Khoo Kongsi, but as for Kek Lok Si, I can't even remember anymore as I always visit it when I was still a child (too many holiday at Penang HAHAHA)

Kek Lok Si is indeed one of the temples at Penang that all tourists will pay a visit at least once to admire the view and praying. Though I've visited few times, I never really visited the Pagoda (climbing up the stairs) and ring the bell as we make our wish =) There's another Guan Yin Statue (you can have look at it even you're not at Kek Lok Si cause it's super tall !!) and I visited it before. You got to take a cable car to go to the statue as it's located high on top (if I don't remember wrongly, you got to pay for this too =) So instead of Guan Yin Statue, I chose to go the Pagoda with my boyfriend to climb up a number of stairs as our long due exercise hahaha.

Location: 1000-L, Tingkat Lembah Ria 1, 11500 Ayer Itam, Pulau Pinang
Entrance fee: Different entrance fee applied. If you want to visit the Pagoda it cost you RM 2.00 (lesser than SGD 1)
Opening hours: I'm not sure what time they opened but it's best if you leave the place before 6pm =)

PS: If you visit this place, don't forget to eat the food at the market nearby. I guarantee you, THE BEST !! You won't be able to find the awesome taste at Singapore HAHAHA

The view from inside of the Pagoda (after climbing up few stairs)

The Pagoda

From the inside of the Pagoda. Do you see the Guan Yin statue? =)

Wishing Bell =) Apparently you make your prayer or wish and then you rang the bell three times =)

For Khoo Kongsi, you will need to pay an entrance fee (nothing is free when it comes to heritage place hahaha. Just think that you are helping on the maintenance fee LOL). You can't find this place like exactly on the side street. You will need to walk pass by small path named Cannon Square (look for below picture for your indication =)) You'll walk pass by a boutique hotel, walk straight all the way straight and you'll see a security guard asking you to turn right to the office to get your entrance sticker =)

We do not managed to explore longer as they closed at 5pm sharp (we managed to take a stroll until 6pm, but they will close the lights inside the temple at 5 !!) Nothing much to learn from here as I don't have the time to read properly on the history and all (we reached at 4pm after walking through the street arts) If you never been to this place, I suggest you to go once to see the magnificent architecture =)

Location: 18, Cannon Square, George Town, 10450 Pulau Pinang
Entrance fee: RM 10.00 (approx. SGD 3.30)
Opening hours: 9AM - 5PM

At the right hand side of the hidden street, you may see this indication =)

The Stretch of the road =)

The front view of Khoo Kongsi

Night view from the screen projector inside Khoo Kongsi =)

I don't wish to bore all of you by keep scrolling down so I decided to write another entry for the cafe visit or just purely on the food part =) Hope this post will encourage you to go Penang even its just for a short vacation (although I can assure you, you will at least need a week to fully enjoy your vacation with all the food !! hahaha)

Click here to go to full details of the food story =) (this will be updated in the next few days. Thank you for your patience 😊)