Saying good bye to Peninsular Malaysia (image 1), passing through the strip of water between Penang island and Peninsular Malaysia. Unfortunately it was impossible to take the bike with us in the passenger ferry.
We had packed and shipped the TDM in an onion boat from Penang on the previous evening after having spent whole day at the port to make sure the thing will be done properly and would get there in one piece. This is the most used method of shipping bikes by overland travelers shipping bikes to Indonesia from the port of Penang. The onion boat take 18 hours, leaving 12pm, to get to Belawan in Sumatra and the passenger ferry takes 5hours, leaving 9:45am next day and we were hoping to get Belawan before the bike arrive to make sure it will be unloaded safely.