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Visiting Snake Temple (Location: Bayan Lepas) (more info)

Snake Temple - poisonous snakes with fangs removed. I'm sweating like a pig! (Location: Bayan Lepas)

Snake Temple. There weren't many snakes here. And the snake pics where very expensive! (Location: Bayan Lepas)

Cannon at Fort Cornwallis. I cheated and removed poles, cables and people from the background. Ya gotta love digital pics! (Location: Georgetown) (more info)

Kelly and I playing the part at Fort Cornwallis (Location: Georgetown)

Friendly bird at zoo. Yet another pic where I'm sweating like a pig. (Location: Bukit Jumbal)

Visiting Museum about History of Malaysia. I actually learned a lot about Malaysia. (Location: Georgetown)

Visiting sea wall with Kelly (Location: Georgetown)

The fishing village I live. Just wait until I get my digital camera! There are so many photo ops but I don't want to waste Kellys film. (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

More motorcycles than cars. Driving on Left (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Taking a walk thru a Malaysian neighborhood. Must always carry water to avoid dehydration. (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Thai restaurant behind house. I love the Tom Yam! (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Taking a walk thru Malaysian neighborhood. Some neighborhoods are mostly Chinese and some are mostly Indian. (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Open drainage diches line most roads. Cars can easily drive into them. One has to be careful when the pull off the road (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Caged windows on apartments. Are they preventing people from going in or out? (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

They've got a different word for everything (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Strange Fruit at Malaysian food stand. The man wanted to know what I wanted. Since I'm the only white person in that city, I stand out. Sometimes total strangers call out my name. Apparently people are talking about me. (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Malaysian food stands. Muslim woman with traditional head dress. (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Standing next to drainage ditch carrying my water. It was very hot that day! (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Poor area standing over drainage ditch (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Strange shale rock I've never seen before. Kelly takes so long to take the picture I started looking around (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Malaysian shaved ice dessert with frosting, nuts, beans, corn, syrups, gumballs ... the taste constantly changed from beginning to end (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Malt drink at Malaysia food stand. Eating Roti Canai. They start with bread dough and divide it into tennis ball sizes pieces which are spun until they are paper thin three feet in diameter then folded and collapsed into small ball and fried on griddle and surved with curry and filled with egg and chopped onions (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Taking a walk on the peir. People fish off this peir with poles and net. (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Hills of Penang (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Island out to sea (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Kelly on bike near house (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Kelly's house. I'm standing in the parking lot for the cars and motorcycles. Convenience store and Beauty Shop are part of house. Door to house open to store so shopper can look in. This is common in Penang. Store and house are often connected and shoppers can peer right into the house (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Kelly's family store. Yeoh Ah Bee is father's name. Half of the store is outside and half inside. (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Kelly working in family store (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Inside of family store (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Inside of family store (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Boats trapped by low-tide (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Kelly low-tide (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Kelly at low tide (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Low tide (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

Low-tide (Location: Teluk Kumbar)

In many places you must pay to use public restroom. Toilet paper cost extra. Cost RM 0.20 (USD 0.05). Toilet paper RM 0.30 (USD 0.08) (Location: Kuala Lumpur)