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I spend the day on the veranda, trying to get caught up on my blog before we go to the next place and take hundreds more photos! But I am distracted by the school children going by on their bicycles. I have a great, concealed location with a view of the street through a tiny window between the trees.

The uniformed kids are riding bicycles, walking, giving each other rides. Families go by with two or even three on a bicycle and sometimes up to four on a scooter. Many of the girls are dressed in long skirts and tunics with headscarves. Every time I hear kid’s voices, I jump up and get ready to take a photo. So much for getting lots of work done!

In the evening we catch the city bus to Ferringhi, the next town, to get to an internet connection and send email and upload photos. I try to get some photos of the windy road to show how it curves around the steep cliffs along the coastline.

Ferringhi is the opposite of Teluk Bahang – the main drag through town is lined with vendors selling everything a tourist could possibly want. Restaurants and high-rise hotels line the side of the street next to the ocean. The street through town is narrow, with cars parked on one side and vendors on the other, and with lots of traffic and package tourists walking around.

When we board the bus on the way back to Teluk Bahang, one of the other guests from Ms Loh’s is on the bus. He has hiked up Penang Hill from the Teluk Bahang side, then down the other side to Georgetown. He said he ‘put his head down’ for the 1 1/2 hour hike up the hill, then took a break at the top, and then down the other side. Once he was ‘down’, he still had 10 km of hiking through the jungle, up and over hills, to reach the bus stop. He has done that trek several times a year for the past 18 years.

We stop by an outdoor Malaysian restaurant on our way home – a buffet of great food.  A man is making rotis as we watch.

Photos of the School kids.