Komtar Georgetown

Georgetown , Pulau Penang, Pinang, Malaysia

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    "Mat Salleh! Let's go eat lah!"

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    Penang is one of the main tourist destinations in Malaysia. It boasts colonial history, a busy town, beautiful beaches but above all some of the best cuisine in all of Asia. I was doubly blessed coming here. Not only was there all these great attractions and all this amazing food but I had Shukie (To whom I am eternally grateful) to show me around …

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    Pinang, Panang, Penang.

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    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 …

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    Penang - Bye bye beach

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    ... entry is cheap and to look around is interesting enough. Commonwealth influence is very noticable around Penang with place names like Georgetown and Scotland Road. Later that day we stopped by the Eastern and Oriental hotel, although we knew we wouldn't ...

  • 2

    Borneo bound!

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    Having decided to stay in Malaysia for more than my original month long tour, I am now going to make the jump from Peninsular Malaysia to Borneo Malaysia this Sunday. This is possibly going to be the most memorable part of the Malaysian leg of this trip ...

  • 3

    Day 120

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    ... Komtar Centre boarding a bus to Penang Hill. Penang Hill would be a great point to view the North East tip of Penang - Georgetown, and the Mainland just a few kilometres further East. The local bus dropped us off about 1km from the base of the hill and ...

  • 4

    Seeing the sights

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    ... It was good to have Lars back so that I wasn't the only loser going in every electronics shop! Anyway, this department store, Komtar Kompleks didn't have any electronics. It was a terrible 80's style dirt mall complete with awful music. I had a great ...

  • 5

    The Pearl of the Orient

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    ... , but we know there's better ones to come! We only spent an hour there because we wanted to see more of Georgetown, before really hitting the beaches. After feeling guilty again (in an Indian restaurant again!) eating infront of the muslims, still ...

  • 6

    A charming little town

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    A quaint, colonial town with a hint of charm, that's Georgetown, a.k.a. Penang, Malaysia.  I don't know why I really wanted to make a stop here on our way to KL, but I really did.  My motive was the Heritage Trail, for which I was mocked ...

  • 7

    Little India.

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    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 ...

  • 8

    Penang, Georgetown

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    ... the Malaysian border (guarding the ticket with our lives this time!), we crossed the small channel to Penang Island and arrived in Georgetown at around 4ish and set about finding a hostel.  This was harder than we'd thought it would be as several ...

  • 9

    Asia adventure part 2, including expenses

    ... africa, the man.  So close and yet so far so we hailed down a cab and went off to the shopping mall called the "Komtar" for some food, any food!! On the way we spied our favourite restaurant in Penang was actually open so we jumped out and went in ...

  • 10

    Rain, trains and more Western meals.

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    ... went back to sleep. The world revolves around Malls here so after the morning's shut-eye we wandered over to the mighty Komtar in search of tourist info and an elusive free heritage bus. The evil capitalist plan triumphed however and we both came away ...