Georgetown, Malaysia Travel Blogs

... e-mail them to get there secret spicy secret sauce, which the name deserts me on, simple creature, big tummy. Malaysia, good, good first impressions, really multicultural, majority Muslim country, but many Chinese, Hindu, Buddhist and Christian, we really ...

A travel blog entry by mills-mcshea
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... Sunshine, all as Mr. Czech showed me around town and shared what knowledge he had of it. We ate dinner at a hawker center (Malaysia has them too), his was fried rice, mine was fried rice + fried egg. I hoped to order something more interesting, but had a ...

A travel blog entry by sirrocko711
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by jawad
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... swim. Judging from their general attitude, I'm pretty sure they don't enjoy it, but they possess the skills. We waded around Georgetown, saw "2 Fast 2 Furious" (wow...it's really bad), and ate four times a day in Little India, hoping the rain would let up ...

A travel blog entry by sarah
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... by the roadside! The plan was to just spend another couple of days, relaxing in the very quaint backstreets of Georgetown as we stuffed our faces with tandoori. Mission accomplished on both fronts but unfortunately a bout of illness for both Charlie ...

A travel blog entry by tomandcharlie
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... paying double for tours/tickets when not buying from the company/station directly. Penang is the first island that I have visited in Malaysia, and it is vast. Here in the middle of Chinatown there is no way of telling that this is not on the mainland ...

A travel blog entry by jawad
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... a little business here spreading their globalization reach. Checking out today's globalization I headed into the main shopping district of Georgetown but only really to take a bus to Penang Hill a short ride out of town offering great views over the ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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... told us we could wait until the unrest became rested, or we could change our route and go into Malysia a different way - ie to Georgetown on the opposite coast to the one we wanted. We took option 2. So they threw us into another car and we sped off ...

A travel blog entry by meercatvinny
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by poolman99
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Pictures from our travels through here...

A travel blog entry by tavini
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... a large mosque replacing the call of "Hello, massage?" with the call to prayer. With such a range of cultures, Malaysia is a foodies dream with a choice from Indian, Malay, Western, Cantonese and Chinese including many of the great little street food ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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... waited on hand and foot. I could really get used to this sort of treatment! I would love to stay at this hotel sometime, but at RM450+ it was probably not going to be the best way to spend my money considering I want to stay in Malaysia for longer now.

A travel blog entry by jawad
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We didn't get to see much of the famed beauty of Penang as I seemed to leave KL with a unpleasant stomach bug. The bug as they do in this area killed any appetite I had left for Asian food and left me with a terrible stomach and headache. Ofcourse we were ...

A travel blog entry by vine_hooligans
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... remarkably. From the things I've seen here, about the only other perception I can hazard a comment on is that Malaysia is a proud and nationalistic country - flags and national slogans abound on houses, cars and public transport. I suppose that's ...

A travel blog entry by technotrekker
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Thinking that we had pretty much exhausted all the options in the local area we headed to Kompleks again and got the local bus to the snake temple. Paid over the odds but we had no idea when to get off so it couldn't be helped. You just have to get used ...

A travel blog entry by rbisset
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... weeks to kill and only 2 countries to visit so I was forced to spend more time in Thailand than I had originally planned. However Malaysia was somewhere new and looked like I would be busy for the next 3 weeks before flying to Australia. Luckily I had ...

A travel blog entry by rbisset
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The hostel we stayed at last night was incredibly strange. For a start there was a pet turtle in the shower room which was very weird. Worse still were the people in the dorm. I know I haven't slept in a dorm for a while but 2 of the guys there were ...

A travel blog entry by rbisset
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... .(I was told by a local) and when I saw the map I had to admit he was spot on. My ferry landed in Georgetown (the squirrel's right foot) and I wondered around looking for a guest house. I found some hideous hostels in Little India and ...

A travel blog entry by poolman99
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Changed to a hostel round the corner this morning with last nights hotel seemingly having bed bugs the size of badgers giving the state of my legs in the morning, was almost sure I could see teeth marks. Feeling like I should have a big breakfast to ...

A travel blog entry by alasdairm
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... and numerous restaurants littered along the beach strip. It's a relaxing area and a lot quieter than the hectic pace of Georgetown where I'm currently writing this. The journey to Penang took 6 hours from Tanah Rata. The bus driver decided to have an ...

A travel blog entry by shanewilson
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... drums and bells and the smell of sweet incense drifted around as you looked out across the island. We returned back to Georgetown for more fantastic tandoori chicken and naan... and to superglue the broken bits of plastic back onto the rear of the bike ...

A travel blog entry by tomandcharlie
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by andy_jillian
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... going to happen and we'd have to make our own way there. Realising that 4 of us were going to the same road in Georgetown, we collared a taxi driver and managed to get him down to RM20. Grace and I checked into a guesthouse that a friend recommended to ...

A travel blog entry by bobsonthegreat
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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 ...

A travel blog entry by youngtravellers
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... coast of the island to the resort town of Batu Ferringhi - what a shock that was! Basically we stayed 4 nights then moved onto Georgetown, we only managed 4 nights in such a place because Matts parents were staying in that resort, we had a hire car to get ...

A travel blog entry by alinmattrtw2005
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I arrived in Georgetown around 7.00pm. Penang is an island off the north west coast of Malaysia and is reachable by a 17km bridge (said to be the longest in southeast Asia). I eventually managed to find somewhere to stay and get some dinner before I fell ...

A travel blog entry by hils
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... about 20 km east of Ipoh and about 150 km north of Kuala Lumpur and about 130 km south of southernmost Thailand, in Pahang, Malaysia. At 1.500 m above sea level it is the highest area on the mainland, and enjoys a cool climate, with temperatures no higher ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina
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... we had no qualms at handing over our treasured passports only to be told we would not get them back until we had reached Langkawi, Malaysia. At 9.30 we were all instructed to board some long tail boats which then ferried all 30 of us to what can only be ...

A travel blog entry by m-and-c
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Sleeping in and cold MUCH better. It is noon when we leave our hotel and we walk back to the centre of the city. I find a bar with SANDWICHES. Can I please have a sandwich? I love fried rice, tom yam soup, Chinese, Malay and Thai food but I long for a ...

A travel blog entry by tonyandmarina
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... just so tired.  Never fear though, readers, the adventure did follow! We spent the afternoon having a bit of a walk around Georgetown.  We were centrally located, and I'll have to admit, I was a bit surprised by the narrowness of the streets ...

A travel blog entry by canaussie
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