Day 8: Last Day in Penang

 

On our last day we went to the Kek Lok Temple.

Honestly, I was getting so sick of the temples at this point haha.

It was also raining in the morning that day...it later stopped and the sun was shining again <3

There was this huge buddha statue.

They had these free books laying around and I took one for practicing my chinese.

The next day I have shown it to my host mum and she said it is very difficult xD

After that we went back to town to see...badum-tss...another temple.

We went into a cafe first to get some food

I got myself some avocado sandwich.

I have never seen so much avocado on one sandwich from a cafe before.

Femke got a jumbo drink and look at that size difference xD

It literally was the size of her head.

Strawberry-matcha it was for me <3.

We were so tired we just relaxed there a bit.

We first wanted to wait for the other group but they took soooo long that we just went inside to the Kongsi temple then.

afterwards we were walking through the streets a little bit.

Although the prices are very low here, I didn't feel like shopping but when Femke wanted to find a henna place I agreed to join..I never had henna art on my body before.

both of these together were just 8€!!! T.T

It already started to fade after a week but regardless it was a fun experience.

Everyone headed back to the hotel and then took the bus to the airport.

We arrived back in Singapore at around 11pm and I wanted to take a grab to take each of us home.

According to google maps, her place was on the way and grab didn't have the option adding a stop inbetween. When the driver arrived we asked him and he kindly explained to us that her place is exactly NOT on the way. It is because of the expressway, it's like a highway the drivers need to take and its right in the middle of each suburb..so he would have to enter one place, go back to the expressway and then enter the other place. He still took us and we just paid him the other way on top and because he was still so friendly we tipped him for the inconvenience!

When I got back I had a nice chat with my host mum before I went to take a shower and sleep

Day 7: Day in Penang

 

So, some of students were worried that we won't see much while our stay there so decided to go on our own a lil bit earlier in the day, it was 6 of us who went to do some more things in the morning.

The view out of the hotel right next to the lifts is so good.

First, we went to the flying mosque...I didn't know we would go there, so I wasn't clothed appropiately tbh but they had cover-ups there luckily.

The view was breathtaking!

We looked like we belong to a cult lmao.

That bird was a star lmao..everyone was filming it..

It looked really pretty tbh

We then left to go to the both temples that are right across each other.

So, temple 1:

aand 2:

These scales are absolutely gorgeous!

We then went back to the hotel to catch up with the others for our trip to the Escape park.

I couldn't take many pictures there because for the dry activities I left my phone in the locker.

For the waterslide ride I wanted to film it and specifically bought the watercase for it.

The watershoes and the case together were just 12€!! T.T

SOOO CHEAAAPPP.

(unfortunately can't upload because the video is too long :(...will try cutting it maybe and edit later).

Femke was sitting in the front because she is smaller and I asked her to film it.

The park has the longest zipline and the longest waterslide in the world.

We we were sliding 4 minutes in total...it's insane!!

I honestly expected it to be quicker but it was very calming and slow.

After we were done in the Park we went back to the hotel to quickly freshen up.

I was using the hotel shampoo and I wish I didn't.

It left my hair sooo frizzy and dryyy...I was putting so much conditioner on top to like "save it"...but it didn't quite work unfortunately.

We headed straight to town to eat dinner.

Arthur recommended a good dine-in where the cooks are in front of you but they had limited space and that's why it was a long waiting time so many of the other wanted to go to a different place.

I waited since I wasn't that hungry and then we could go in like a couple minutes later.

I poured my own egg and it fell :(((

The food was sooo good, and I was able to try from the others too a bit.

The food from the restaurants in Malaysia is really good.

We then headed to the bar..

I randomly chose a drink and look how pretty this was!!

Friedrich caught the picture really well.

The cocktail was called Counting Stars...Tie Guan Yin infused Kao Liang, Yuzu, Grapefruit, Lychee, Citrus and Rose...

I had no idea so I was just like...let's try! Mostly because drinks like this don't exist in germany.

The taste was also really good.

The bar had written on the menu that when you leave a 5 star review you get a free shot xD

3 people were doing it and one was the guide, she didn't want the shot so she gave it to me.

The alcohol here in asia is so weak, it tasted like drinking juice.

It was already almost midnight and I didn't really have anyone to talk to, so I joined some who wanted to call the grab back to the hotel.