Merdeka Folding Bike Touring, Klang to Langkawi: Day 7

After spending 4 days to travel from Klang to Langkawi, and spent another 2 days touring Langkawi, it was time to prepare our trip back to Penang.

Since we don't have any plan to follow, we adapted an free-and-easy way on getting back to Penang today. We have two choices: one to take ferry back to Penang (the easiest and the fastest way, but the least frequent trip), or to take ferry to Kuala Kedah, then cycle back to mainland Penang (the not-so-easy but most frequent trip by ferry).

However, Mike received a phone call, decided to cut short the trip by flying back to attend some urgent business. Lucky for Mike, he have achieved what we have intend to do in the first place.

After knowing that the ticket office (for ferry trip back to Penang) only opened at 9am, and then the first trip only set sail at 2pm, we took our own sweet time enjoying the scenery offered by the seaside hotel, enjoying the breakfast slowly, before returned back to the room and enjoy the TV shows. And before Mike left for the airport, we took a group photo with the T-shirt we bought yesterday to commemorate the touring trip.

Checking out of the hotel, we had plenty of time to waste, since it only took us less than 5 minute to reach the Jetty Point. So we took our own sweet time consuming the (rather bland) lunch, explore the shopping mall before warming the bench at the waiting lounge.

After 3 hours journey, we finally arrived at the dock on the Penang island. Since Mr Yeong wanted to meet up with his friend in Butterworth, and I decided to stay in Penang to visit friends, we went on their separate ways.

I decided to check into the Friendship Motel (which we stayed on Day 4 of our trip), as it was affordable, and easily accessible to some of the tourist attraction.

Since there were plenty of time before the appointed time with my friend, I decided to have my own little tour of Penang. Ever since Penang has started integrating bike lanes into their town, you can actually follow the bike lanes to visit many of the tourist attractions with ease.

Weirdly my stomach was already groaning, even though the evening sun was still shining brightly. So I went to the Chulia St and ordered a plate of wanton mee. After a quick meal, I cycled to the direction of the Esplanade.



It was quite relaxing to watch the evening sun setting down in the distance......

 It was certainly good to catch up with old times with my cycling friends during the dinner time, in which I was more than happy to tell them my first touring adventure first hand =D











Since I was leaving for Butterworth to catch a train back to Kuala Lumpur in the afternoon, my university mate decided to bring me around Penang to try out some of the best food, on bicycle in the morning.... Oh boy oh boy, can't wait to fill my stomach with more penang food!!!! After all, Penang is also known as a food paradise!!!

Ride data of Day 7

Distance: less than 10km
Average Speed: no need to know
Max Speed: just fast enough to avoid the traffic
Total cycling time taken: maybe 1hr?