Khoo Kongsi Georgetown

By abeja:

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 …

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 …

On Penang we decided to hire a car again as it is twice as big as Langkawi and we did not want to do it via public transport. Pulau Penang is much busier though, so we got stuck in traffic a few times and it was pretty hard to navigate with a map.
Georgetown is a pretty big city with shopping malls, markets, food courts and cinema. It was …

Getting from Thailand to Malaysia, in terms of the border crossing, was ridiculously easy... the x-ray machine for your bags wasn't even manned, so if it 'beeped' when bags went through, nothing actually happened. On the mini-bus we met a nice Kiwi called Chris who is headed for Borneo and talked about so glowingly that Bec and I even wondered …

When I was preparing the trip (from home) I checked many blogs (specially from Tripadvisor) to find the way to travel from Melaka to Penang by bus. I was getting a little bit anxious as I couldn't find any info... oh well, the day arrived and I/we arrived in Melaka... I went to the tourist info desk and they told me where to go and what bus line to …

... for an hour spin around little India, the floating village, the old town and an ornate ancient chinese clan house called Khoo Kongsi. There are lots of attractions to see in Penang. We enjoyed the Kek Lok Si Chinese temple complete with giant ...

... slippers. ooh, Mrs Adams my A-Level textiles teacher would be proud! Also visited the Teo Chew Ancestral Temple, The Cheah Kongsi and the Khoo Kongsi. Phew, after all that Chinese culture, there's only one way to proceed - with a nice Chinese meal. Found ...

... high Goddess of Mercy statue. In the evening we had beers at the Betel Nut pub. Day three we headed to Khoo Kongsi, a Chinese cultural museum built for the descendants of that family. We also visited another Chinese temple with hundreds of beautiful ...

... same street about 2 minutes walk between them. We also had a good look around an old Chinese clan house, Khoo Kongsi. Which was very beautifully decorated and had an interested exhibition downstairs. Upstairs there were plaques showing where the family ...

... , with many people burning incense sticks and producing lots of smoke. Our final port of call for the day was Khoo Kongsi, a large Chinese clanhouse hidden down a winding lane, with elaborate and highly ornamented architecture. That evening we, once ...

... south of China to Indonesia. The temple to the ancient is really really beautiful, i can not describe with words how impressed I was. The Khoo Kongsi is not far away from the Kuang Yin Teng Temple (Temple of Mercy). I'm not a believer, I've never really ...

... by all the smoke and came outside once more to admire the ornate roof and carvings. Our last stop of the day was the Khoo Kongsi clan house, an extremely impressive Chinese temple and museum, uniting all the people of the same Chinese surname within the ...

Quick breakfast and then off again to Georgetown to see the Khoo Kongsi, largest of the kongsi, as it had been closed the day before. Drove around through the streets, and checked out some of the old mansions before going back to Khoo Kongsi. It is ...

... a clan house that is partly a temple and partly a meeting hall for Chinese of the same clan or surname.  The Khoo Kongsi is the finest of Penang, although it is not as extravagant as originally intended.  The original building was completed in ...

... were forced to step in, fined each society a huge sum and used the money to set up an independent police force. Khoo Kongsi, in some of our photo’s, was completed in 1901 and was, apparently, particularly magnificent. Therefore, no-one was ...