We also toured a village. There are some pictures of a typical home on stilts. They use the underneath area for storage and eating and sleeping in hammocks. We also saw rubber trees and the man at the herbal hut "tapped" the tree for us and let us roll the liquid rubber in the palms of our hands and it actually rolls up like a bouncy ball. They had the large hand presses to make large rubber mats there as well.
Penang. Who knew it was our Captain's favorite port! Too late for us to know. Guess we will have to go back. Seems that the Chinatown here is the most authentic Chinatown in the world, even in China!!! This is where the first Chinese settled in Malaysia.
Since we did not know to go to Chinatown, we went to the Snake Temple, via the Batik factory that we saw in 2007 and a stop at an herbalist man's hut along the roadside. We bought Penang Clove Oil that is good for Rheumatism, backache, Insect bites, Lumbago, Stiff neck, Muscle Pain, Swelling, Bruises, Sprains, and TOOTHACHE!! The toothache is what sold us! Remember the teeth problems we had in 2009??
We toured a typical Malaysian village and then hit the road to the snake temple. The snakes are sedated from the incense they burn and should not bite...we hope! Kathleen was the only one in our family that would don the snakes! It was just awful, you can imagine the sweaty palms we had while the snakes were crawling on her! YIKES!! When in Rome?? Does this really apply here? Not really. They even had snakes in the trees that you had to walk through to get to the temple. Pictures will follow.
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