Fort Cornwallis Georgetown

Food and eat are the top two definition I would go for Penang. Penang Island gives you the exact thing. The small island in Malaysia has a UNESCO old town called Georgetown. I liked the old town, though I wouldn't say it's amazing. But I will tell you what's amazing: the food!

The unique culture in Malaysia consists of the Malays, Chinese …

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Para ir a Penang, era necesario tomar nuevamente otro barquito que nos sacara de la isla. El boleto lo compramos vía internet pues Malasia es muy moderno y todo ese tipo de cosas puedes hacerla electrónicamente. Llegamos al embarcadero más temprano de lo esperado así que yo me quedé con las mochilas y Clau fue a comprar cafecitos …

Today was our half day city and temple tour with Terry, although he obviously loved our company because it turned ino a six-hour tour extravaganza!






Terry picked us up at 10am and we headed to Wat Chayamangkalaram, otherwise known as the reclining buddha temple. It was pretty stunning outside as well as inside …

We love Georgetown, or Penang, as it's known colloquially. It oozes history from every pore, but wears it well. It looks old, unlike some historical places that have been sanitised and, in some cases even rebuilt, to the point where you can't even imagine where they've come from.

Georgetown was the first british settlement in Malaysia, …

We arrived to the Bangkok train station nervous but excited about the 24 hour train ride from Bangkok to Georgetown AKA Penang, Malaysia. The train was nice enough with a sitting area for 2 with a table where they served us meals. They removed the table and converted the area into two sleeper berths after dinner and we slept a lot of the way, …

15 August 2006 (Tuesday)
I set off for Johor Bahru at 7.30pm by Bus 170 from Kranji MRT. I wanted to explore West Malaysia and no arrangements were made for any accommodations and transportation. I had decided to let the availability of long distance coach services determined where I should go first.

After clearing the customs at …

Hello again! Olly isn’t feeling very inspired to blog so it’s me again!

We arrived in Penang on Monday (13th) after what we considered to be a very short flight from Phuket. It was supposed to take two hours but actually took less than one – more on that later! The first thing I noticed is that Malaysia is very English …

Day 4- 14th October

Our last day in Penang and we still hadn't seen a few attractions. As time was a luxury we shortlisted three places which had received good reviews. Our first stop was Fort Cornwallis built in 1786 by Francis Light and named after the former Governor-General of India Lord Charles Cornwallis.
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So we arrived in Penang from Sumatra and it was a breath of fresh air, very clean and quite modern and beautiful blue skies to top it all off. We arrived in Georgetown at about 6pm and straight away tried to find a hostel and to get settled in. We met a nice American lady called Linda at our hotel in Medan, who was also on our flight to Penang and …

The bus to Penang was our first economy style bus. Not to be a snob but this bus was not to my liking! The engine was loud, there was the continuous scent of fuel in the air, and it was just slow. Luckily enough for me, I caught a good lock of shut-eye. The funny thing about the bus journey was that we didn't get dropped off exactly …

... every second shop. Malay, Chinese and Indian make up 90% of the population. Our first fix of sightseeing took us to Fort Cornwallis, built by Captain Francis Light after taking possesion of the island in 1786, the entry is cheap and to look around is ...

... on the songs inbetween,we sat outside! a third day, more toasties (i know real travelers), went to the old british fort cornwallis (not to impressive), and the very beutiful temple/clan house called Koo Kongsi, followed by some more shopping, and ...

... women lobbing fruit into the ocean!!   Having made the journey to the esplanade we had a quick look around and found Fort Cornwallis and its battlements illuminated against the night sky (PIC). The fort had been built for a British Captain in the ...

... in Georgetown we decided to walk around and catch some sights; the first place we knew was pretty close and had heard about was Fort Cornwallis. It was blisteringly hot out and were thankful to see a tourist info place on the way so we stopped into the ...

... a sports bar, while I amused myself trying to sink ice cubes in my Diet Coke. The following day we started out at Fort Cornwallis, an old colonial fort with an exceptionally dull exhibition about The East India Company and some equally dull chatter ...

... cost $2 or less.  Food at restaurants starts at at least twice that.  Our last stop of the day was at Fort Cornwallis, a star-shaped creation of the English and the first East India Company fort in Southeast Asia.  There wasn't a lot ...

... dinner before I fell into bed. The following day I went for a wander round town in the sweltering heat. I went to Fort Cornwallis. The fort was something to do with the British invading many years ago. I then went to visit an old Chinese House ...

... original thing left here after the war is the Bishop's chair and we couldn't stand to see it broken so we continued on to Fort Cornwallis. This is where the British first landed but there isn't much there at all apart from walls and a few cannons. We ...

Day 208 ; When we got moving today our first place on the list was Fort Cornwallis. Had expected Georgetown in general just to be an interesting place, buildings, culture etc although on arrival and trying to find things of interest in the local area ...

... north-east towards Little India we look for the old colonial architecture found dotted between modern concrete, north to seek the remains of Fort Cornwallis (for those in the know it is around here the grave of the lover in The King and I is actually ...