Travel Day: Penang

On the advice that I get on the earliest bus to Penang possible I splurged an extra $RM3 on a Super VIP bus ticket for 8:00. Rumour has it that there's a bike rally on today and they're shutting down the main road later in the morning. The later buses are being rerouted, adding an extra hour to the travel time.

Our bus pulled into Tapah at around 10:00 because the brakes needed changing, putting us behind schedule by an hour. A couple of hours later in Ipoh, a police cavalcade blocked us up for another hour and a half. The rerouted buses probably got there before we did.

The bus finally arrived, though not on Penang, as I had thought, but rather, Butterworth, which is on the mainland. My guess is, they didn't want to pay the toll for the bridge across. Our newly formed travel group (1 x British couple, 1 x Irish/British couple, 1 x Aussie girl, 1 x me), hauled ass up a couple of flights of stairs, a couple more ramps and boarded a ferry to the island.

We're meeting up later tonight to discuss our plans over drinks later tonight.