MALAYSIA'S $30 TRAIN FROM KUALA LUMPUR TO PENANG BUSINESS CLASS
good morning everyone it's an early start to the day here in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and we just come to the train terminal here where we're going to get a train to Penang we actually came to the wrong train terminal we're supposed to be at the next one but we were able to pay like an extra 10 Ringgit per person to get on the same train but from a station one station early yeah so we've already made a mistake but it's all good and we're going to Penang in business class and it's gonna cost 147 per person yeah and that includes like food I think we also have access to the business Lounge like that yeah that's what we're looking for right now isn't it we'll just go through as we go because we're not sure so this is the lounge right here normally we don't go in a business Lounge I don't know it travels I think it's the first time yeah I think it is the first time ever right so yeah you can just get like a coffee or tea I guess I think Carol's gonna get one all right so this is the train yeah this is like the first stop so it's completely empty around here foreign when you lay down like this it's good the leg space really good though look at that it's completely stretch my legs out you can bend this down though so on one side we have the food tray on the left side we have a little TV screen here so there's a type of movies looks like there's no movies but there is internet on here so that's good check it out we can watch our channel YouTube got some power outlets as well that seems like you can even charge your laptop on here if we wanted to get some work done USB too how long is this a train ride anyway four hours four hours okay and they also have Wi-Fi for you to connect to on your phone too foreign breakfast now so we've got a cheese sandwiches and of coffee or tea I think there wasn't any selection of sandwiches right just nowhere made this option this option yeah it's not really the best sandwich that I've ever had just very simple like Carol said not much on it just a little bit of cheese thank you so I ended up taking a bit of a nap since I didn't sleep that much but now the lunch has arrived so it says here that it's Nancy by the looks of it it's like rice with eggs and uh yeah I think that's like fried chicken and they also give you uh orange juice water KitKat and some nuts and the scenery has been pretty much the same the whole time like three hours like this pretty much yeah the chicken is really good how's the rice so we've arrived at Butterworth station now I'll just show you the the bathroom quickly so this is how the toilet was pretty good toilet if I pick clean as well so that's good and through here was the economy class so just less legroom still not bad though so I think you wrote down the prices of like the economy class and the other options right yes I think the economy class was about 77. that's like half the price yeah half the price and I think the cheapest option to come to Penang is by bus but it can take up to six hours and it's a 35 Ringgit and I also checked the price of the flight and it was forty dollars per person with with no package so we just walked into the ferry terminal now it's supposed to be right next to this station isn't it yeah it's very close so here we go Ferry going down how much for two people thank you thank you so it's just one Ringgit 20 per person and it's that price because it's so close that's uh Penang over there I think that's part of the island as well I can't tell so there you can see the bridge you just have a car or a bus you probably go across that bridge over there oh foreign so we have arrived the place we're in now is the capital of Penang it's called Georgetown and we're pretty close to the ferry terminal so we're just gonna walk I think it's about seven eight minutes walking it's raining a bit at the moment so hopefully we don't get rained on we do have some waterproof covers anyway over there it's nice and blue yeah hard yeah it needs to come over here I think Malaysia might be the country where we mostly their Flags the flag of Malaysia so this island is known for its Old Colonial British buildings from when it was colonized by the British so yeah this is one here 1922 is the date on the top we're going to be seeing a lot of that in this video in the next one foreign so this hotel room here is 33 just a simple room really does have AC I don't know if we're going to need that they say that it's like a traditional Chinese style I think because of these designs here and we also got a view of the street here so we just came from over there in Butterworth so we're going to explore Georgetown a bit now it's not that big so I think you can walk around a lot of the neighborhoods it's raining a little bit hopefully it doesn't pick up more but we should be able to see some stuff around here anyway and check out the kitty kitty with no tail so Penang has become very famous for its uh street art scattered around the city that's supposed to depict like the local way of life here in Penang got the soup or some sort of bowl there yeah yeah so people always take pictures with them if you search Penang on like Google Images you'll see these things everywhere there you go he's getting Grandma's soup and next to the street out there it's got a pretty trendy looking market area too a bit of a mix of like modern trendy places and all places uh here's another one that's cool how they put the actual swing yeah yeah Victory Time picture time for Carol so from what we've seen so far it's definitely one big mix of architecture Styles like none of the buildings look the same do they no everyone is different yeah usually we go to places and there's kind of like a standard or whatever you want to call it but not here just like here yeah just like here right now like look at this so you got like some Chinese looking Temple and then yeah on this side some white red building and the British ones do seem to have a distinctive style and check this out too that's not even a painting is it it's like what is it metal yeah so there's just cool art pieces everywhere Georgetown world heritage site so yeah you got like colorful buildings plants everywhere interesting place so that building that we were talking about it's a fire station from 1908 so it is probably a British one light we said so to find the street murals they're all listed on uh Google Maps that they yeah what's that buy on motorbike yeah so check this one out here it's kind of faded now so I guess they always keep this old motorbike here got a kid got a army helmet on so we definitely do seem to be more of a Chinese area because all the buildings have uh Chinese writing then over here there's another Chinese looking Temple looks like an impressive one yeah I'm not gonna try and say that wow that sounds like a popular Street I did read about an Armenian Street there's another Street meal over here more kids on bikes so one thing that's looking very different about Georgetown so far is that everything has like a worn out appearance like it's uh freshly painted around here but I kind of like it so a lot of the murals as well like worn out walls some more coffee shops yeah it's definitely another Chinese looking building the Chinese lanterns wooden windows okay what the hell yeah thank you and to add to the architectural mix in Penang we now have a big beautiful mosque here it's the tower so obviously we noticed the mix in like Kuala Lumpur but I think here is way more isn't it yeah maybe a big hill area so everything is mixed in a in a small area like every step is something different yeah so on each street that you pass you'll just see different things all the time different religious buildings there's also Hindu temples that we haven't seen yet love Penang I don't think we have seen a Hindu temple but there are many Indians here too so there will be Hindu temples I think we're on our way to Little India now so yeah I should be able to see one so about 30 seconds after saying that we hadn't seen the Hindu temple here's one already so we're definitely close to Little India so similar kind of style that we saw near the Batu Caves with the colors and everything doesn't seem to be open at the moment though and then we go back to Chinese antique stores so this is Little India right now and yeah everyone around here looks Indian all of a sudden that's a cool store there one of these like necklaces or something flower necklaces you can smell the Indian food too yeah I think Indian food's got to be the place with the most powerful smells isn't it so I think here in Malaysia the Indians mainly came from the south and that's why Carol's favorite food is from yeah yeah probably got some Masala dose around it oh yeah already that's a picture of a masala dosa there it seems a lot quieter the Indian Little India Town beautiful Indian colors and the Beautiful Indian clothes so we're now heading to that tower that you might be able to see back there but it's actually just a big building supposed to be able to go on the rooftop and get some amazing views and here we walk in through Chinatown now so a lot of places that we've been so far kind of look like Chinatown anyway but yeah I guess this looks even more so online it says that historically the Chinese were always the majority on this island not sure if they still are the majority I think it's more mixed now but yeah in the past it would have been mainly Chinese although from what we've seen walking around it does seem to be that there are more Chinese establishments everywhere we go there are only a few uh Indian ones from what we saw that's the building we're going to right there definitely looks like the tallest building by the looks of it so this is the spot that you need to look for rainbow Skywalk I guess that's what they're calling it so they have loads of attractions in this building so it's not just a rainbow Jurassic Park I don't know all sorts of stuff seems to have rides zombie outbreak yeah I definitely wasn't expecting all this stuff to be in this place Transformers like some big adventure Tower with loads of games so the floor is 68 and I think we paid 68. yeah the price is the same price as the flow number that's funny maybe intentional who we got here Captain America Bruce Willis is that Jackie Chan Jackie Chan and Bruce Lee Brazilian yeah Ronaldo representing so we're on the top of the building now the Rooftop loads of spots to hang out here yeah and here are the views so definitely the spots to come to to get the 360 views of Georgetown more than Georgetown even yeah Penang so I think that over there is a Penang kill where we'll go in the next video you can go to the top of that Hill that's pretty cool that was like an artificial Island over there they're making the Palm juice in Dubai I guess that's why they call it the rainbow then I was wondering what the rainbow name was about foreign so this building was made in 1988 which makes it the same age as me and at that time it was the tallest in Asia and on this side you can see where we're staying well you can't really see it but we're on the coast just over there somewhere so yeah we walked all the way here you can see a cruise ship over there I didn't know that cruise ships stopped around here so this is why they call this place the Skywalk let's check this out kind of nervous right oh yeah look at that it's a long way down we've never been on like a floor that's entirely like this before I don't know how you're not nervous though you better be strong it's funny I'm like tiptoeing on it even though I don't have to I was doing the samba on it so we've been through the Indian areas and the Chinese areas of Penang and now we're closer to the coast where you have more of the colonial British areas so this is a church here and then you can see around these are all colonial era buildings and this Memorial here is of a person called Francis light so this is the perfect time to explain the history of Penang and Malaysia and you'll be able to put the pieces together of why there's so many Chinese and Indians here so Francis light is the person that established Penang so he was a British Tradesman and explorer that had been based in Phuket Thailand and he had been doing trade there and he had learned the Thai and Malay languages and then he identified Penang as a good location for trade because of its position in the Malacca strait between Indonesia and Malaysia well back then they were those countries but right now they are and he is in 1786 and that's when Penang became this big trade Hub and that's why you have the Chinese and Indians here so at the time obviously India was a colony of the British right so they brought many Indians here to work I think mainly in like the rubber plantations and the farms and the Chinese were brought here more for business so that might be why you see more establishments around here that are Chinese so I think they would work in the businesses the banks stuff like that so that's why you have all these people here and that kind of also explains the history of Singapore I guess a bit because yeah in Singapore you have many Chinese too so it's kind of a similar reason look at this here for uh impressive building I think this might be the Old Town Hall I just see that there was a town hall around here it's in their language so yeah I'm not sure two three so that's it for this one we ended up just getting a bite to eat at a French restaurant and now it's pitch black as you can see so really liked what we've seen in uh Penang so far and tomorrow we're going to do more of a Island Tour if you like this one just drop a like as usual to support us subscribe to see more like this follow us on Instagram and Facebook and we'll see you around thank you
2022-10-06 10:02
