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I spent the past two days in the very relaxing Malay city of Kota Bahru – Actually there is not much to see there, but you can get a good impression of Malaysian culture. The East coast, especially in the northern part is very Muslimic, so there are many Mosques and of course: No alcohol!

David, the guy from France accompanied me and we had a lot of fun by just walking around or drinking Kopi. Besides that, we had a lot of excellent food at the night market, such as Roti Canai, Murtabak and Laksa. As you can see: Nothing really stunning happened – Just the feeling of some really Malay town

Today we took a Bus to get from the East coast to the (far more developed) West coast of peninsular Malaysia – This involved an 6 hour bus ride. We choose a fairly comfortable Super-VIP bus: This means: Just 24 seats in a Bus, with really good seats, which you can adjust down to almost “flat”.

We finally arrived in Butterworth, which is just on the coast-line opposite of Georgetown on Penang Island. So we took the 10 minute Ferry ride to arrive in the so called “pearl of south-east Asia”: Georgetown. As a former colonial hide-out of the British East-India Company there a many colonial style buildings to be seen. Even after just being here just a few hours, it is completely clear, that this town has a completely different “flair” compared to Kota Bahru: In KB were mostly Malays, with just a few Chinese – In Georgetown there seems to be an equal mix of Malay, Chinese and Indian people…

By the way: David, my fellow traveler put some of his pics to flickr. Check them out to get some impressions of the places I have recently been to! Especially the pictures from the Perhentians are wonderful…

Update: I put some of my pics on flickr, too – Just to make you jealous!