Our brief tour of the island started at the Penang Botanical Gardens (we can't see enough!), where we saw beautiful trees, flowers, and monkeys who had raided the local ice cream cart.
The next stop was to dye for. Not really :). It was a fabric factory where we got to see locals dying and hand-painting multiple fabrics with hot wax. Lisa was chosen as the lucky one to model how the versatile fabric can be worn.
We then toured a Chinese mansion, which was built in 1850 in accordance with feung shui. Next, we saw how the former tax-evaders lived, as they built their houses on stilts over the sea to avoid paying the land tax.
Throw in a couple of Chinese temples and more poolside reading and you have our day in a nutshell!
On a completely unrelated note, our twin-ness must be shining through today, as we have received more comments and questions than usual.
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