Holiday : Penang Hill

This was our first mini holiday to Penang Hill during labour day.

Baby J just turned 8 months old.

As usual, each outing needs to be planned properly.

I need to make sure my 'handbag' needs to be filled with all his necessity

within the scheduled hours.

Happy Wednesday morning!

Can see his sprouted gigi?

On the way to Penang Hill. The journey was just about 15 min  :D

Local ma...

We stopped for breakfast in one of the coffee shop next

to the Penang Hill big roudabout.

It was election period. We were happy to see how they campaigned.

Can you spot the Ubah hat? One of the candidate with his team

were socializing with the rakyat.

Opposition won the last election in Penang and this year

they are working hard to maintain the government.

Personally, i have seen improvement over the last 4 years 

under the opposition gov. LGE has done a great job!

Penang Hill was under major renovation. 

I was impressed with their new outlook.

We bought our tickets. The queue was long, mostly Malaysian.

An adult ticket price will cost RM 30 per pax.
But if you are holding a MyCard (Malaysian Citizen),
ticket will only cost RM 8.

2 tickets cost RM 16 and it was FOC for Baby J

The queue to the train platform were long too.
However the waiting time was short.

Baby J was curious to see so many people and
makcik2 were trying to make friends with him.

I realized the platform was not so stroller friendly.

They do not even have a special lane for baby or people with special needs.

But they have a private entrance for citizens who were living up the hill.

This can be an area to improve.

The train was too packed. I have to carry Baby J.
I felt he can suffocate sitting in the stroller.

We have to carry the stroller into the train as quick as possible

as you do not want to be pushed. People were rushing in to secure a lift.

The step could be dangerous if we were not careful.

Look at the crowd behind us.

We were at the front cabin.

Please ignore my giant arm. i know .. i know.. :(

The journey took 7 minutes?? 

 (oh dear, i can hardly recall now, it was just like 4.5 months ago??)

I can only recall it was fast. They have upgraded the train service.

We reached the top about 10 am ??

Nice weather. View of Penang island.

Penang hill looked different compared to my last visit, 10 years ago.

We walked around this area.

This is the new hawker centre "The Cliff Cafe" and the only one up there.

They have all the local food. We did not order anything since

we just had our breakfast. Just bought 2 bottled water.

It was Baby J's feeding time. I warmed up my EBM quickly

and fed him. We took our time since there was no rush at all.

Warm??

There was on open space. Quite clean & spacious.

oh, i forgot to mentioned there was an Owl Museum beside The Cliff Cafe.

We did not visit. Maybe next trip when Baby J is older.

We walked around and decided to rent a cart to
venture into the inner side of Penang Hill.

I cannot recall how much we paid for the golf cart.

The chinese uncle driver was very friendly and he 

was introducing some of the key spots
when we passed by.

Monkey Cup Garden

Some tycoon's bungalow

Tree top bridge (broken & no budget for reconstruction) 

I forgot what the uncle said about this old treasure.. ops..

Just strike a pose laa.. 

Baby J enjoying the ride

Weather was good

This is the only hotel up on the hill

After spending good 2 hours, the weather got cloudy.

Time to leave before the rain starts.

Queuing for the train

My baby was just too tired.

It started drizzling when we reached the hillside.

It was just a short trip but i called it a holiday. :)

We enjoyed ourselves.

Life is more meaningful with this little munchkin.

You can find more info about Penang Hill here.