Penang or its Malay name of Pulau Pinang is made up of a turtle-shaped island, a total of 280 square kilometers, and a strip of land called Seberang Prai on Peninsular Malaysia about 48 kilometers wide. Penang is also often called the Pearl of the Orient. It used to be the oldest British settlement in Malaysia predating Melaka.
When traveling on domestic flights in Vietnam, the acceptable forms of photographic identification - all of which must be valid at the time of travel - are as belows:
Foreign tourists to Vietnam up 24.8 percent in January Vietnam greeted an estimated 630,000 foreign tourist arrivals in January 2012, according to the General Statistics Office and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism.