It’s too late at night for me to post photos from yesterday…
Today I took a reasonably nice bus from Ipoh to Butterworth and rode the ferry to Penang. (I think if I’d stayed on the bus it would’ve driven me to Penang, but the Penang bus station is in the middle of nowhere.) I’m staying half way between Georgetown and Batu Ferrenghi, on a nice little stretch of beach.
Ipho train station. I didn’t depart from here today, but stopped in to buy tomorrow’s ticket to Thailand. There is a shockingly seedy hotel in the top of this beautiful building.
Pointy Ipoh landscape. The limestone around Ipoh is supposed to make for ideal pomelo growing conditions, but I failed at my several attempts to visit a pomelo farm or even buy and eat a pomelo.
Me on the rickety ferry to Penang. The Ferry costs MYR1.20 to ride, and the entrance is coin-operated. No one carries change, though, so right before the automated ferry turnstyle there’s a human-operated booth where everyone stops to get change. And there’s also a full-time attendant at the turnstyle — his job is to show me where to put the coins.