4th of January - Still travelling.

Early Morning @ Butterworth: We're finally at Cheng's place. After a torturous 9+hours, the bus finally shook its way to Butterworth (Penang). Cheng was nice enough to pick us up from the Interchange. We'll be heading back to the same place to try to get a bus to Perlis to see our other dearest housemate, Susu!

Breakfast at Cheng's, before leaving for another bus ride!

9am: Yeap, we got a bus time slot to go to Perlis! Yay!!!Next stop, KANGAR!!!

In the bus - look at my constipated i-hate-sitting-in-long-bus-rides face!

11.40am: We're here in Perlis (town:Kangar)! It's so nice to see my darling, Susu. I guess the constant bumpy journey was worthwhile!

1.30pm: Lunch was good! We had yummy fish and little dishes. What's more, we had great chilli sauce. *drool*

This was where we had our first lunch for the trip

hahah our first shot together. The reunion shot. We all looked so happy. It must be me. =)))

ahhh food, glorious food. We had our first meal with Susu's dad, a really interesting person to talk to.

more food!!!

We passed by a few limestone mountains. Susu's dad (I'll call him 'Uncle' in this blog) also showed us the sugar cane plantations. He explained to us that there were about 300 variations of sugar cane but Perlis housed 3-4 of the lot for commercial use. Another thing that i noted was that they used fires to aid the cutting down and harvesting of the sugar cane crops.

BURN BURN BURN!!! Yeap... we were that close to the fires.

Up close and personal - actually we were MUCH closer to the fire.

One of the limestone mountains. there are holes where the birds shit in it. Apparantly people climb the mountains for the droppings. If I can remember correctly, Uncle told us that those particular droppings have medicinal value. *shrug*

Uncle also brought us to the quarters for the Thai workers (both male, female as well as children). Anyway Uncle is going to bring us to the actual factory where sugar cane is processed into sugar =)

6.50pm: We went to Uncle's workplace - the sugar factory. Then we drove around the plantations, picked up a few canes before heading to Susu's place for tea and snacks. I swear Susu's parents are on a mission to fatten us up because just before dinner time, they offered us cake (which we promptly finished in an hour), fruits and some other miscellenous snacks. hahah!

In the factory, while having the tour, we were occasionally treated to taste the pure sugarcane juice. We also tried the impure residue of the sugarcane.

One of Uncle's colleagues brought us to the storage place for the sugar. Funny, you don't see ants infesting this area of the factory.

I must say, the weather was superb that day!

Uncle also brought us to pick sugarcane!!! Click on the next image to view video!



Mucking around back at Susu's place

We look so happy there!

We had to walk back to the house where we were staying when... (i happen to like this shot very much)

...we passed by this watch out =)

Argh! We're going to have dinner soon, we're going to gain weight!

The housemates preparing to go out.

10.45pm: Dinner at the seafood place that Susu's family often frequents was SOOOO good! We ate so much! I'm stuffed. Anyway we dropped by Susu's other house before heading back home. Think I am going to have an early night. I'm going to bed a contented girl.

hehehe waiting patiently for dinner.

the fish, which was the speciality, was my highlight for the night.

Next stop tomorrow: Thailand!

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