DAY 01: BANGKOK - ARRIVAL
Arrive in Bangkok and make your own way to the Sawasdee Khaosan Inn Hotel.
At 6 pm meeting of group in hotel lobby for talks and giving you information. Then go to a restaurant for dinner together at your own expense.
Overnight at Sawasdee Khaosan Inn (Tel. 66-2-6294798), 18 Chakapong Road, Banglampoo, Bangkok.

DAY 02: BANGKOK - ON NIGHT TRAIN TO PENANG (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meet your T/L at breakfast for talks. (Optional tour.)
Meet your T/L in the hotel lobby at 1pm and transfer to the Hualumphong Railway station to board Train #35 to Butterworth (Penang), departing at 2.45 pm, accompanied by your T/L. On the train your seat can be turned into a bunk. If you want it early, call the attendant - each carriage has one attendant - to make up your bunk for you.
Overnight on train in 2nd Class air-conditioned berth.

DAY 03: PENANG (Breakfast)
At about 6.30am the train will pull into Hat Yai railway station and remain there for about 20 minutes only.  Enough time for you to buy coffee, rolls, sticky rice and the delicious fried chicken on the platform. Arrive at the Padang Besar railway station on the Thai-Malaysian border at about 8am (Thai time). Disembark with your bags to have your passport stamped for exit at the Thai immigration, and then move along to the Malaysian immigration on the same floor for stamping your passport for entry into Malaysia, and move along for cursory Customs inspection at the Malaysian side of the platform. After these immigration formalities re-board the train for the last stage of the journey to Butterworth, arriving at about 1pm. Your Malaysian T/L will meet you at the Butterworth railway station with the signboard BMT Group and take you across to Penang Island in a private transport, and to your hotel, assisting the group to check-in. Do an orientation walk with your T/L of the hotel vicinity to get to know the area. T/L will introduce you to some Penang hawker's food, if you like.
Overnight at Hotel Mingood (Tel.604-2299922), 164 Argyll Road, Penang.

DAY 04:           PENANG - TOUR (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meet your T/L in the hotel lobby at 8.30am to go on a tour of the island, visiting the beaches of Batu Ferringhi and Teluk Bahang, the fruit orchards and durian plantation, nutmeg groves of which Penang was famous during the British colonial days, see the old Snake Temple with vipers coiling in the rafters and nooks and corners, a view of Penang Bridge and see Fort Cornwallis that Captain Francis Light built in the 1790s; take in the Khoo Kongsi clan house to marvel at the very intricate carvings by artisans imported from China at the turn of the 20th century. Stroll awhile in Penang’s “Little India” filled with household goods from India, saris, spices and heady incense. Before returning to your hotel your T/L will take you to a food centre for another taste of the local hawkers’ food of which Penang is justly proud of.
(Optional tour in the afternoon to the Kek Lok Si Temple near Penang Hill.)
Overnight at Hotel Mingood, Penang.

DAY 05:           PENANG - CAMERON HIGHLANDS TOUR  (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Your T/L will transfer you from your hotel at 8am to Cameron Highlands, Malaysia’s premier mountain holiday playground, a drive of about 4 hours, passing tin-mining towns like Taiping and Ipoh, and up the mountain road into the cool of the highlands famous for fruits, vegetables and tea. Along the way, stop at an aboriginal settlement to see how these Orang Asli live. Try your hand at using a blowpipe with which these folks use to hunt small game. You will pass a popular waterfall and a huge reservoir at Ringlet before arriving in the main town of the highlands.
T/L checks group into the hotel in Tanah Rata township. T/L will take group for a driving tour of the highlands up to Brinchang where Gunung Brinchang sits at over 2,000 metres above sea level. Upon returning to Tanah Rata go to a restaurant for dinner (pax's own account). The town sleeps early but it is nice to stroll along the rows of shophouses.
Overnight at Kang Travellers Hotel (Tel.60-5-4915823), 38 Jalan Besar, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands.

DAY 06: CAMERON HIGHLANDS (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meet your T/L at breakfast.
(Optional tour.)
Meeting of T/L with group at 6pm in the hotel lobby for talks and go to a restaurant for dinner together at your own expense.
Overnight at Kang Travellers Hotel, Tanah Rata, Cameron Highlands.

DAY 07: CAMERON HIGHLANDS - KUALA LUMPUR (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning departure at 8am to Kuala Lumpur with your T/L.
Check into hotel.  (Optional tour in the afternoon.)
Meet T/L for talks at 7pm and get information about Kuala Lumpur, and have dinner together if you like.
Overnight at Winsin (Chinatown) Hotel (Tel.60-3-20315011), 1-3 Jalan Petaling, Kuala Lumpur.

DAY 08: KUALA LUMPUR (Breakfast)
Meet T/L for talks and information during breakfast time.
(Optional tour.)
T/L meets with group at 7pm in the hotel lobby for more talks and information, and be introduced to a restaurant for your own dinner.
Overnight at Winsin (Chinatown) Hotel, Kuala Lumpur.

DAY 09:           KUALA LUMPUR – MALACCA TOUR
Morning departure at 8.30am to the historic town of Malacca, passing Malay villages, fruit orchards, oil palm and rubber estates, a drive of about 2 hours. Check into hotel with T/L assisting. Go on a tour of Malacca with your T/L, visiting the old baba-nonya enclave, the Cheng Hoon Teng Chinese Temple, Hindu Temple and Muslim mosque located side by side in a row in former Heeren Street, see the Malacca Museum housed in the 17th century Dutch Stadhuys, walk through the A Famosa fortress gateway built by the Portuguese when they captured Malacca from Sultan Mahmud in 1511 and which the Dutch rebuilt in 1641 when they took Malacca from the Portuguese up St Paul’s Hill where the tomb of St Francis Xavier was before the body was removed to Goa.  See the reconstructed flagship of conquistador Alfonso d’Albuquerque which led the Portuguese fleet to conquer Malacca. Be free to stroll about in town before returning to your hotel. Your T/L can introduce you to typical Malacca nonya food, if you like to sample this unique cuisine.
Overnight at Hotel Hallmark (Tel: 60-6-2813409), 68, Jalan Portugis, (Off Jalan Kubu), Melaka.

DAY 10: MELAKA (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Meet your T/L at breakfast for talks.
(Optional tour.)
Meeting of T/L with group at 7pm in the hotel lobby for talks and go to a restaurant for dinner together at your own expense.
Overnight at Hotel Hallmark, Melaka.

DAY 11: MELAKA - SINGAPORE (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Morning departure at 8.30am with your T/L to Singapore, a drive of about 4 hours. Your T/L will help you check in at the hotel, give you information about Singapore and how to get to your next destination before saying goodbye to you.
Overnight at Ambassador Hotel , Singapore.

DAY 12: SINGAPORE - DEPARTURE (Breakfast)
Breakfast at the hotel. Check out of hotel by noon.

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