Back from the North!

What's appealing about the ride in Penang is that I'm cycling in a foreign land which is 400km from the comforts of my own home and the fact that its not like any other routes back here where i can simply do it over the weekend. That all makes up for an unique experience!

Day 1
I'd say I may not have went for the trip if not one of us had a bicycle carrier since it wouldnt be fun at all neither cost effective to have us all drive individually in our own car to Penang but fortunately Nagai had one and it nicely fitted all 3 our bicycles right at the back. (I gotta get one for myself one day...)


That's how the bicycles are strapped behind...cruising speeds tops max at only 110! If you'll go any faster the bicycles starts to feel as if they will want to fall off anytime soon!

We started the journey at 11am only to take an exit off to Tapah to eat 'Tin kai' and Eel after Lee reckon us that we should try them. At first when Lee ask me if i'm okay with 'Tin Kai' i just nod thinking its some sort of chicken cook in some sort of ways...boy i was wrong when i see Frog served on the table! Hah, but i guess that slight error is good since I went to give it a try as nothing familar to me was on the tabl and i was hungry :)


The Frogs tasted like soft chicken...apparently quite tasty but I dint had a lot since i couldnt be sure how my body would react to frogs...


Here's the other specialty...eel! yummy! :D

After lunch, we got back out on the highway and its all straight towards Ipoh then finally to Penang where we opted to take the ferry instead! I can't remember the last time i board onto a ferry since i'm always up for anything thats new, i excitedly push forward with the idea furtermore the ferry stops right in front of our motel, how convenient! But o' sadly, we had to wait an hour for our turn. (why dint we take the Bridge!)

But it was all smiles when it finally came to our turn!


Finally onto the ferry!


Penang Bridge in the distance


Everyone catching the wind and gazing out at Penang Island...

Reaching at the other end, we sped off round the bend to Friendship Motel and offloaded our bicycles into our tiny little room that manage to accomodate us 3 and the 3 bikes!! The time then was 5.30PM and it was quite late to cycle around as we first intially planned so instead we went off to trace the route we will be cycling tomorrow! (We just trying to get homegrown advatange too)

Oh btw, the starting point is just right in front of our motel. So off we go with Lee on the wheel to trace the route which starts from Esplanade all the way to Teluk Bahang. Generally the route is flat scenic roads. The climb is the route on the way to Tanjung Bungah. It's all uphill from there till BatuFeringghi. Aside all that, the route generally looks farily easy.

With the time that we have, we made some stops overs at the beach to take some pictures...here goes


It's really windy that weekend in Penang. Here's afew playing kites




The grass is greener here...




A time then.


2 dude fishing by the beach...probably they are the ones who are responsible for the shark whale that ended up at the beach today!!!! LOL



Dusk approaches

After the stops, it's time for Dinner. Ate the locals specials, drank magic tonic 101 for my throat then finally going back to the motel to wash up and fall to bed and be ready for our ride that awaits us in the morning!

'Fin' - Day 1