A day in Georgetown

We arrived in Georgetown late last night after a full day of travelling from Krabi to Georgetown via minivan, train, boat, then by foot. Don't worry we continuously reminded our group (and random strangers along the way) that it was Canada Day. Caroline even tried to teach a guy who was annoying us by the train station Oh Canada! to try and get him to leave...classic!

We walked to our hotel (which is sorta shiesty, but it has a/c and hot water) dumped our stuff and then headed to dinner. We found an Indian restaurant with tvs (the Brits wanted to watch the England-Portugal match). The food was great and cheap. For $3 Caroline and I feasted (we each had juice and a big bottle of water and then we split chicken and a dosa and a mountain dessert - the crepe type stuff covered in condensed milk, lord knows what it was called, we saw it on another table and pointed). After chatting for a fair bit we headed back, showered and hit the sack (litterally, we broke out the sleep sacks for the first time and I discovered I should have gotten a long).

Don't worry we continuously reminded our group (and random strangers along the way) that it was Canada Day.

This morning we were both tired, grabbed super sweet coffee and banana pancakes for brekkie. (Being a light sleeper I was woken up by street noise a couple times and by morning prayers and we only were in bed for about 7 hours). Then we headed to his Mansion owned by the Rockafeller of the East (the guy's name escapes me right now). It was pretty cool and we learned about chinese culture.

We then grabbed some lunch at a cafe where we read books filled with people's travel advice about different countries.

After we went on a tour that our leader Jane had arranged. We saw the largest temple in SE Asia, the snake temple, the fort and the Khoo family house. All and all Georgetown doesn't have that many sights and we were disappointed. EXCEPT for that the guy brought us to a Chocolate store at the end and we scored some free samples. We now are internetting due to lack of things to do. Gerogetown seems interesting, we're staying right where CHina town and Little India meet. I'm sure if it were a weekeday (it's Sunday) we'd be much more excited.

Tomorrow we travel to the Cameron Highlands where there are lots of tea and scones....I'm definately excited.

** update: we got a partial refund on the tour becasue apparently the guide did not take us all the right places and didn't give us sufficient time (and he definately wasn't supposed to take us to a chocolate shop!). So it cost us around $5 instead of the original $9.