Taking off from Bayan Lepas International Airport

To balik kampung or to 'go home' (back to my village) in Pulau Pinang, the options are to fly, take a train (and ferry) or make a road trip. All travel options are interesting enough to experience, and I have done them all.

The snapshot on the left I took about three years ago (in 2011) as we were about to take off from the Bayan Lepas International Airport after celebrating Hari Raya (Eid Fitr) in the kampung.

Firefly flights from Pulau Pinang go to the Subang Skypark, not KLIA. Then it is a short taxi ride back to Shah Alam where we live.

How do you balik kampung? Maybe you don't because you already live in your kampung, lucky you! But then again, maybe you don't because not everyone is lucky enough to have a kampung to go 'home' to. Ces't la vie!