Day 1 in Penang: Street Art & Khongis
Good vegetarian food, cheap beer, extensive street art, exciting architecture, cool museums, laid back venomous snakes and cheeky non-venomous monkeys. These are a few of my favorite things. At least, I think that is how the song goes. Or better yet, that is a rundown of a few of the things I loved about the kick-ass island of Penang. As I have mentioned before, I purposely did very little research prior to this trip. Therefore, it came as the most welcome of surprises when, after an 8 hour bus ride, I checked into my hostel and was handed both a city map and a street art map. There was enough street art to warrant its own map! This was looking promising. My hostel, the excellent Magpie Residence , was about a fifteen minute walk from the heart of Georgetown (or a free bus ride away) so the first evening I only explored a bit of the outskirts of town.