The path to the Perhentian Islands from Penang Island (Malaysia) lies across the entire width of Malaysia, since these islands are located on the opposite coast of the country. And a 450 km road hitchhiking through mountain passes and jungles will not be fast at all and we want to get there today. Penang is a fairly large city with a developed infrastructure and unlike Langkawi island, there are buses here, which we boarded at sunrise to get from the beach to the center of the island. From where there are two 2-3 kilometer bridges and ferries to the mainland. There is a fee to cross the bridge and the ferry but only in one direction at the entrance and since we hitchhiked here for free now the ferry was free for us too. We boarded the ferry and the gates immediately closed behind us. Having reached the mainland we found ourselves in a big city and the most difficult thing in hitchhiking is, as always, getting out of the city itself. But Malaysian hitchhiking is so good that even in the center we didn’t have to wait even five minutes before we were already driving with a fanny grandfather in a right-hand drive Toyota (like every else here). Next a pink Honda Civic, tuned according to all Asian Need For Speed criteria stops for us. But having lowered the tinted window, a bald old man about 70 years old, with a beard like a Shaulin monk, smiled at us from the car. And so, 60 km/h in a sports car, we reached the next point, where for the first time in Asia we were picked up by a truck driver on a timber truck. Which was carrying a dozen felled trunks, weighing 55 tons, which was not good for us because a huge mountain pass began and we drove both uphill and downhill at 20 km/h. But we had a great look at the mountains and landscapes with floating clouds on them, small waterfalls flowing along the route, and interesting road signs informing us about deer, elephants and capybaras walking here. The truck driver dropped us off at a roadside cafe (we only managed to take a photo of him driving away from us). We ate our favorite spicy rice with chicken in a cafe for $1 and move on. P.S. Sorry, we didn't take good photos of this road, so you'll have to use your imagination