After a good feed we enjoyed the view from the top of the ship approaching Malaysia.
And time to eat again?! By the we got ready for the big afternoon ahead it was lunch time already. We felt like we were constantly eating! Luca loved all the different food he was given :) even a shoe (ha ha ha)
They were still full from breakfast so enjoyed checking out the view.
We arrived in Penang Malaysia just after lunch time. We chose to do a shore excursion organised by the Cruise line.
View from the tour bus:
We first visited Wat Chayamankalaram, which had the world's third largest reclining Buddha (33 meters in length!).
They had different golden buddhas for each of the 12 Chinese zodiacs. Here is our rabbit year boy:
Then we walked across the street to visit the Dhammikarama Burmese temple.
Another huge golden buddha. Oliver was sneaky trying to blow out all the candles - funny!
We had a short stop at a famous white coffee producing tea house. You can try all sorts of white coffee and some strange herbal drinks. We weren't really interested in the tasting and the shopping so we took a stroll to the shore.
Then the main event, visit to Kek Lok Si Temple, which stands on a hill - yes on a hill, what does that mean to us? encouraging the toddlers to walk up the steps and carrying babies in the heat! Can you see how far to the top of the pagoda?
Ready for the challenge!
To my surprise Helen and Oliver walked very very well.
Oliver loved this pond full of turtles!
I wish we took our baby carrier with us... this sort of worked anyway.
The temple was apparently known as the Pagoda of Ten Thousand Buddhas.
Great view of Penang from the top:
There were many stalls like the ones we find when visiting temples/shrines in Kyoto but they were little bit non-authentic (like Angry birds t-shirts?) to me.
It was certainly a challenging day but we were glad we did the tour to see some of the important places in Penang in a short time.
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