Penang

We spent a a couple more days in KL with nothing much to note other than finally making it up the Petronas Twin Towers (not to the top, just to the bridge between the two, which is still pretty cool).
On Wednesday night we caught the night train from Kl to Butterworth, we had a sleeper bed which was actually quite comfortable and doubled as a night's accomodation not bad for RM38 (NZ$15, GBP 6).
Butterworth is on the mainland and it's a short ferry journey across to Penang island and it's main city of Georgetown. It is, apparently, Malaysia's second largest city, however it is a world away from KL. Where KL has a shiny new subway system to get you around, Georgetown has rickety buses, none of which seem to be less than 30 years old.
There's not much to do here but we did take a trip out to Kek Lok Si temple which was very impressive, although incredibly commercialised. In order to get to the temple you have to walk past dozens of stalls selling knocked off Harry Potter T-shirts and Beckham tops.
We stayed in a very budget hostel and we leave today for Ko Samui which we are both quite excited about as it will be our first proper beach part to the holiday. Bit nervous about how we are going to get there as we are catching a train that leaves at 2:20pm and arrives into Surat Thani at 11:30pm ish and the last boat to Ko Samui leaves at 11pm. We'll figure it out.
Oddly the train we are catching is a sleeper, even though we leave in the middle of the afternoon. I'll let you know what the go is with that in the next blog.