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Georgetown Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Georgetown, Malaysia
Penang - Bye bye beach
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Day 63: A Taste of Penang
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Away from Thailand we sprint!
This is a top pick! ... got to 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 ...
Borneo bound!
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Leaving Malaysia...in a minivan
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Back in Penang... and we can't leave!!
This is a top pick! ... friend 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 ...
Penang - my first Malaysian island
This is a top pick! ... Thailand 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 ...
Malaysia - Penang
This is a top pick! ... day of two flights, from Kota Bharu via Kuala Lumpur, we hopped in a taxi and drove to our accommodation just north of Georgetown, the islands capital. You may wonder why we took this route as any map of Malaysia will show that Kota Bharu and Penang are ...
We are wanderers...
This is a top pick! ... of the company we were asking about and took us to a travel agent. That guy told us we had to take a bus south of Georgetown to book tickets, which we thought was odd since everything we had checked into said the bus left from the mall, so why would we ...
Day 120
This is a top pick! ... the 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 ...
Finally in Malaysia
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Funicular Fun
This is a top pick! ... did 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 ...
Wandering in the Rain - Then Drying Out
This is a top pick! ... a 5-hour trip. But it wasn’t unpleasant, and we made it in time to watch the sunset from our pimp hotel. Georgetown is a cool colonial town with Chinese, Malay, British, and Indian culture all mixed together pretty seamlessly. The old shops are ...
"George Town"
This is a top pick! We made our way via "fast ferry" for the 3 hour ride to Penang, which has some great history and background to it. We made "camp" in the main city on the coast called "George Town". History: Penang, originally part of the Malay Sultanate of Kedah, was ...
Penang to Thailand
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Georgetown (Penang)
This is a top pick! ... of temples and Buddha's all stacked totally haphazardly on top of each other. Finished off the day with a trip on the funicular railway to penang Hill, 821m above Georgetown for some spectular views of Penang at dusk, with Georgetown lighting up below ...
Backpacking with a flowery suitcase
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Day 119
This is a top pick! ... .(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 ...
3 Nights in Penang
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Another taste of colonial Britain and the Chinese
This is a top pick! ... the clock tower and an elaborate Chinese mansion. Unfortunately I don't know the history behind them (I managed to get through Malaysia without a guidebook) but they are other examples of attractive architecture of a bygone era in a (now) thoroughly ...
The Slaughterhouse is Gory... But Great Tandoori!
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...
Farewell Thailand
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Snakes and expensive drinks
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Some Dim Sum
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Leaving Thailand at last
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Seeing the sights
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Two Years on the Road to Nowhere
This is a top pick! I will try to fill in the last 3 months the best I can, but I wanted to mark this date with an entry. Sorry, but I've been missing and having a really good time. As you can see I'm no longer in China and not even in Thailand anymore. (If they followed ...
Penang
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
The Pearl of the Orient
This is a top pick! ... , 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 ...