My Life As a Balik Pulau Tour Guide
第三次当浮罗山背的单车导游
住在脚车民宿的三个礼拜里，小嵻当了三次导游。第一次带的是来自德国和吉隆坡的住客。那天正好是小嵻第一天住入民宿，对于民宿一带并不熟悉。当时还在的员工事先带小嵻游了一趟导游路线，然后下午小嵻就凭着记忆里的路线，勉强地带二位住客到达了终点。不过途中倒是错过了很多景物，也迷了不少路，感觉还真的是有点对不起她们咯。第二次是当来自俄罗斯游客的私人导游。这次小嵻对于周遭景点比较有头绪了，所以带这位游客游了很多地方，最后还带她到那个要骑到很吃力才能到的海边，观赏那里的美景。论体力，小嵻真的是败给这位俄罗斯游客。小嵻是推着单车上斜坡的，而她是骑着单车往前冲的，重点是她的那辆单车是没得调档的！小嵻真的是很佩服她啊！小嵻问了她平时是否都有在骑单车，她说有，平时都是骑单车上班，很少开车的。小嵻好奇的问她为什么不开车呢？小嵻原本以为她会说是因为交通诸塞的缘故，但是万万没想到她告诉我的是因为骑单车能让她解压，是个很健康的活动。骑单车解压这一招小嵻倒是从来没想过，对于小嵻而言的确是很新鲜。
至于第三次导游呢，小嵻带了二位来自吉打的住客来个早晨单车之旅。这一趟导游一共耗了五小时多，因为我们骑到了浮罗市镇那里去了。一路上我们经过稻田、菜园、马来村、养牛场、鱼池、海边、红树林、然后再到市镇的天主教堂和玄武庙。午餐我们就在著名的金叻沙解决。我们还买了几块黑塘糕，然后再去吃小嵻最爱吃的豆腐花！说真的，小嵻其实还想带二位住客游更多市镇里的其他地方，想带她们去看看列源银饰店、林家农场、一百号老屋、传统理发店、吃新巴刹的鲜鱼还有喝那杯小嵻认为是全槟城最好喝的咖啡。可惜的是，小嵻碍于有任务在身，必须早点赶回民宿，让她们错过了很多。
总结呢，小嵻在当导游的这段日子里都过得很开心。开心是因为可以骑单车到处遨游，更开心的是因为可以认识新朋友，彼此分享自己的故事。真的真的很感谢这两天里有这两位住客的陪伴，让小嵻过得很充实！
Third time becoming a Balik Pulau bicycle tour guide
Within the three weeks of staying in the homestay, I have became a tour guide for three times. For the first time, I was a tour guide for the guests that came from German and Kuala Lumpur. That day was actually my first day staying in the homestay, so I wasn't familiar with the surrounding yet. Beforehand, the worker brought me once by car along the route of the bicycle tour to let me have some idea. After that, I brought my guests, with the little knowledge I had, embarking on the trip. Luckily, we reached the destination in the end. For the second time, I was a tour guide to a Russian girl. This time, I was quite familiar with the route and area, so there was no detour for this trip. Our last station was a beach, wehre the road to the beach was kinda slope. It was definitely a tiring trip for me but not for her. She cycled all the way to the beach while I have to pull my bicycle along the way. I asked her whether she has been cycling all the time before this? And she told me that she always cycled her to her working place, rather than driving. She told me that it was a way for her to reduce her stress. Well, that was something fresh for me, I have never thought of releasing stress by cycling.
As for the third time, I was a tour guide to the two beautiful girls from Kedah. We have spent more than 5 hours for this trip as we have cycled all the way to the Balik Pulau town. Along the trip, we passed through paddy field, vegetable farm, Malay village, cow farm, catfish farm, seaside, mangrove forest and then we went to the church and Chinese temple in the town area. We have our lunch at the famous Kim Laksa. We tried the brown sugar cake and having my favourite Tofu Hua. Actually there are still many places that I wanted to bring these two guests to visit, but too bad that I have to go back to the homestay to settle some stuff. Hope I can make up for them during their next visit.
As a conclusion, I am quite happy with my tour guide life. Happy because I can cycle around the beautiful nature, but even happier because I can meet a lot of new friends with different mindset, where we share our story. Really thanks a lot for the two beautiful guests from Kedah. You two have made my day!
