Our plan is to visit Penang Hill on the second day of Hari Raya holiday. But it seems like everyone has the same idea to visit Air Itam today :P The road leading to Air Itam is so congested that it's almost a standstill! We couldn't bear the traffic jam as it is one-way to Air Itam and difficult to weave out later. So we gave up our initial plan and go to another "hill" attraction - Waterfall Hilltop Temple (sorry, I'm not sure what is the official name of the temple).
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| View from the stairs overlooking Gurney Drive |
Actually this day is not so good even for outdoor photo as the sky is too cloudy and greyish. Still we couldn't be staying at home all the time since 爸爸 was on business trip before the holidays. There's a sign somewhere showing there's 513 steps to the top. We went up the steps on our bare feet, there is a sign to take off your shoes just before the steps starts. I think 爸爸 about to faint around the steps in the above photo kekeke.....
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| Taking the steps slowly. 姐姐 showing 300 steps at the top right photo. |
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| Can see both the old temple and new temple from here. |
We're not at the correct visiting time, the temple is closed by the time we are at the top. Next time, we should reach the top before 12pm, or after 4pm. We plan to come again :)
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| The new temple. It's closed so we couldn't go inside. |
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| Outside the waterfall hilltop temple |
Since we're already around Gurney Drive, and expected Gurney Plaza/Gurney Paragon to be congested, we went to Straits Quay.
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| Straits Quay Raya decorations |
The inflatable playland "Jungle Combo" is free on the day we went, later I saw from Straits Quay facebook they are charging a fee for entrance.
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| Inflatable playland "Jungle Combo" at Straits Quay which the children loved :) |
The children only agreed to leave the inflatable playground if we bring them to the playground they used to go to. Suddenly there was this sign saying "Straits Green Playground-By-The-Sea". Faint at the fancy name :P
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| At Straits Green, Playground-By-The-Sea |
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| Combo photo of our lunch at Blue Reef @ Straits Quay and Thai food dinner at Cherry Blossom |
Hehe, I also dunno why we seems to be on a visiting temple spree. The next day we went to
Butterworth Tow Boo Kong Temple or also known as Nine Emperor Gods Temple. It's too beautiful a day to be at home, and we couldn't go many places or get stuck in traffic jam on the island as 姐姐 still have classes in the afternoon.
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| The main entrance of Nine Emperor Gods Temple (北海斗母宫) |
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| Opposite side of the main entrance |
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| Butterworth Tow Boo Kong Temple. Sigh, the boy wanted some shade and he didn't mind at all if he's using a girl's hat. |
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| In front of Tow Boo Kong Temple |
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| Fountain inside the temple |
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| In front of the 斗母娘娘 shrine |
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| Pagoda and dragon decorations |
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| 百子图 and lanterns |
We went to pay respects too (as usual in 爸爸's style), not just taking photos. After visiting this temple, 爸爸 say he remember another very popular temple in the same area. Tapi he is not very sure of the way and didn't manage to find it :P
We saw an air-force base instead. There's a fighter jet on display so 弟弟 wanted to see it up close, influence from the new Disney Planes cartoon, you know.
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| Plane at air-force base and Ban Chuan Chicken Rice @ Chai Leng Park |
For lunch we had Ban Chuan Chicken Rice at Chai Leng Park. It's the children's favourite chicken rice in Prai. They serve all sorts of fried condiments, but their favourite is the hard-boiled eggs and crab-stick roll. The sour plum drink is nice too. Then 姐姐 had to go for her usual classes. There was slow traffic but it's moving towards Juru toll, phew! Some of the crowd are making their way out from Penang :P
They polished off all their kid's meal for dinner later. Gosh, no longer able to share the adult portion...
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| Their identical kid's meal, with chicken burger, fruits and orange juice |
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