AT#715 - Travel to Penang Malaysia

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Hear about travel to Penang, Malaysia as the Amateur Traveler talks to Ruth about the city she called home for about a year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo.
0:10.7	Amateur Traveler episode 715. Today the amateur traveler talks about food and temples and markets, hikes and beaches, and more food as we go to Panang, Malaysia.
0:26.0	Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about
0:36.0	Panang. I'd like to welcome the show Ruth from Vancouver and that's not the one in Canada but the one in Washington and that's the state of Washington not DC who's come to talk to us about Panang Malaysia.
0:51.7	Ruth, welcome to the show.
0:53.0	Thank you.
0:54.0	Glad to be here.
0:55.0	And some of you met Ruth if you traveled with me to Morocco.
1:00.0	Ruth was one of the people on that trip and we're friends from long before that and you have spent the last
1:07.5	three years up until the coronavirus down in Southeast Asia is that have I got the timing right or was it longer than that?
1:14.0	Well we had three years in Singapore and then we were into our just past our first year in Penang when the COVID virus came out and I actually
1:27.0	was here in the states and got stranded here as the movement control order went into
1:31.8	effect in Penang and I wasn't able to get back into
1:35.1	the country so we are now home back in the state of Washington and yeah but Penang
1:41.8	was our home for about a year.
1:43.4	Well and when we get to the point where we can
1:46.5	why should someone go to Penang?
1:48.7	Penang is just a very interesting piece of Asia.
1:54.4	You have three distinct people, ethnicities
1:59.0	who make up Penang.
2:00.9	Penang is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It's the second smallest. It's the only one that has
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