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Your best bet is to get to central bus station of [[Georgetown, Malaysia|Georgetown]] (basically any bus will take you there from anywhere on the island for 1 to 4 RM (in 2012)). Or just walk there, as you'll probably be staying in Georgetown anyway.
The bus station is by the sea, and there's a frequent and free ferry out to Butterworth, which is a city on the peninsula. (Note that the ferry is '''not''' free on the other way around, '''to''' the island.) The journey takes about 10 15 minutes.
In Butterworth again, there is a big bus station just where the ferry drops you, and you can ask the the cashiers at the bus station for a bus which takes you out on the big North-South highway (E1) which goes from Thailand all the way to Singapore.
There is a big local traffic on the highway near Penang, and people told us the long-distance traffic only goes to Kuala Lumpur, not to Thailand. Our experience was different though, someone going to near the Thai border stopped for us in 10 minutes.
=== South towards [[Kuala Lumpur]], [[Ipoh]] === Take the free ferry to Butterworth. If you walk out of the port, you will see a bridge with ramps. You need to go in direction south which is right when you leave the port. After a few kilometres, there is a toll bridge, from where you can walk to a ramp of the main north-south highway.
== Places to avoid ==
