This card depicts a traditional village house. It is built on stilts to avoid flooding during the rainy season. Bayan Lepas is a suburb of George Town and is located at the southern tip of Penang Island, 15 km south of the city centre. Bayan Lepas is home to the Snake Temple 蛇庙 , or the Temple of the Azure Clouds. It is a Chinese temple well-known for being a refuge of resident snakes, said to be reincarnated disciples of the deified Buddhist monk Master Qingshui 清水祖師 , to whom the temple is dedicated. On the six day of the first lunar month, devotees, some as far away as Singapore, Taiwan, and China, come to pray in the temple. Inside the temple, it is filled with smoke of burning incense and a variety of pit vipers. The vipers are believed to be rendered harmless by the sacred smoke, but as a safety precaution, the snakes have been de-venomed while still retaining their fangs. In 2005 a snake breeding centre was set up in the temple.
Chișinău is the largest and capital city of Moldova. It was founded in 1436 as a monastery village. At the beginning of the 19th century there were about 7000 living here. Today there are about 720 000 people. The card comes from the Canary Islands. Maybe the sender visited there. It doesn't say. The sender is from Kyiv, Ukraine, and was displaced due to the Russian Invasion of Ukraine. Her biography on Postcrossing thanks the people of Chișinău for the warm welcome they received and continue to receive. They know have a permanent house to call home. I hope one day she can return to her home in Kyiv.