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We hired a guide and a mini-bus from the hotel to see various sites of Penang. Our guide spoke English very well and was able to give us the history of the area and many interesting facts.

Above two pics thanks to KI.

Also known as the waterfall gardens due to there being a waterfall in the gardens.

Picture thanks to KI

The gardens are beautiful and relaxing except when one has to deal with the monkeys. A few years after this trip Maureen & I took a friend from the UK around the gardens and the monkeys had become quite aggressive. Maureen & her friend visited the ‘ladies’ and I was holding both of their handbags because they had been warned of visits, even in the ‘ladies’, by the monkeys. As they left the ‘ladies’ I was outside waving their handbags around our heads to frighten off the monkeys that were waiting.

The animals gave off a barking sound and would jump towards us before backing away – quite unnerving only having a handbag as a weapon.