Penang Life - The Girls Come to Stay, Day 4

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For the last two days of the girls visit we hired a car so that we could drive over the new bridge and back.

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As you can see it was very, very busy.  Not

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 First stop of the day was Balik Pulau and a visit to Mr. Fong, the silversmith.  Needless to say, we didn't leave his shop empty handed.

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Church of the Holy Name of Jesus (1848)

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The Penang National Park and the trail to the Monkey Beach.

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More of a trial than a trail.  I was soaking wet with sweat and the girls were being targeted by mosquitoes. Don't we look a happy lot!!!!

 

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We made 900m of the 1.5km towards Monkey Beach.  Given Gek's propensity to turn her ankle on the smoothest of tracks, I opted to return to the concrete.  In the spirit of all for one, one for all, we all about faced.

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 And so on to the last stop of the day - Genting Hill for the sunset and

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dinner.  Brilliant way to end a brilliant day out.