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Returning back to Penang was like visiting an old friend, it was like we had never been away, although we did notice the traffic was a lot worse than in Langkawi . It took us about an hour and a half to get back to the hotel due to the peak hour traffic and when we asked at reception for our key, they didn’t even notice we had been away, even though we told them!  Early evening we decided to go for a walk to see a waterfall that was signposted by the side of the road. There was an opening in to a field leading to a dusty path, and the occasional sign saying “waterfall this way”, after about five minutes and the sound of large dogs getting ever nearer, we bumped into Anthony. Anthony was about twenty five and told us he ran one of the bars we had just passed with his wife, and told us to pop in on the way back, we asked him about the waterfall and he said it wasn’t far just follow the path and don’t worry about the dogs. We said we’ll see him later and continued for about two more minut

Arriving at Penang was a bit hair raising, the Air Asia pilot who thought he was Tom Cruise overshot the small runway and had to pull up before we went straight on in to the river; this is not a good feeling when you are already clenching for all your worth with food poisoning. He circled one more time, then tried to land again, even then he hit the ground quite hard, we were just glad we were going to be off this plane in a few minutes.  After going through passport control and a trip to the loo, we were met by a large man who looked like a Samoan rugby player who loaded our cases into the minibus and sat us next to an Australian couple. The Australian couple constantly talked about how many time they’d been there and how it was only a short hop for them, all the time I couldn't stop staring at the man who seemed to have no neck and rather sweaty.   After about an hour in heavy traffic, we arrived at the Holiday Inn Penang and we’re dropped off on the "wrong" side