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Pinang Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pinang, Malaysia
Penang - Bye bye beach
This is a top pick! ... the bus (public transport in Malaysia is flawless) to Kek Lok Si Temple in Air Itam, it's the biggest buddhist temple in Malaysia. Luckily that day there was very few people around and this gave the place a really eerie, peaceful feeling. The architecture ...
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 ...
Cultural (con)fusion
This is a top pick! The most amazing thing happened on the way to Penang... an easy border crossing! Wait- stop. Think about it. Appreciate it, as I did. This was bloody amazing. Innumerable minibus, bus and ferry transfers worked seamlessly. No one ripped me off. Customs ...
Penang - Part 2
This is a top pick! On Sunday 12th September 2004 I went to Palace Payar Marine park, this is near Langkawi Island. From Georgetown we took a ferry to the park, it took about 1 ½ hours to get there, but sitting on the top deck of the ferry in the sun made it a very nice ...
At home in Penang
This is a top pick! It doesn't take long to realise your at home somewhere, or that your country has once put it's mark there anyhow. We jumped off the ferry (more stepped off slowly in the unbearable heat) and walked down a couple of streets avoiding the use of a taxi ...
Brother Martin, Sister Kate - Welcome to Penang
This is a top pick! Welcome to Penang. Penang is an island hanging off the west coast of mainland Malaysia, accessed by either an extraordinarily long suspension bridge or a ferry which departs Butterworth frequently. Penang is a multi-cultural centre, with a colonial charm ...
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 ...
Pilau Penang (sic) - days 33 to 38
This is a top pick! ... so we asked if we could join them off the ferry. They happily said yes. This was our first coach journey in Malaysia that wasn't alarming; the previous three had shaken us up at times; perhaps this one was okay because the driver only ...
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! ... Phil's sandals smelling like burnt popcorn). So, we started walking the 3 miles back to Ipoh; it got dark and the sidewalks in Malaysia are...inconsistent, which made walking on them a guessing game of "is that a piece of cement or a hole through which I ...
Back in Penang... and we can't leave!!
This is a top pick! So all the time spent of beaches in Thailand gave us plenty of time to think about our trip so far, and all the places we wanted to re-visit. To hell with the itenarary, we decided that it was time we started forgetting about 'where we should be and ...
Heading for the hills
This is a top pick! The overnight train journey was comfortable enough, but I reckon the lower bunk is worth the extra baht - at least you get a window then and a wider bed. Unfortunately they were already bought up on my train as I only booked the day before. My 30 ...
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! ... 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 both in the very north of the country, whereas KL is towards the south. The ...
Look who it is...The Lazy, (thin but lovely) Irish
This is a top pick! ... border to exit Thailand before the driver told us to go and give a guy at a desk 20 Baht for entry forms to Malaysia. We were mystified and between the two couples have spent 17 months crossing various borders without ever having paid for an arrival ...
Ferringhi Beach
This is a top pick! Last night was the first heavy downpour since arriving in Malaysia. Unfortunately I had left some clothes out to dry on the roof of my hotel and by morning they were predictably wet again. Never mind, usually it only takes a couple of hours for clothes ...
We are wanderers...
This is a top pick! ... see a tourist info place on the way so we stopped into the air-con building and grabbed some maps of town and other parts of Malaysia and just did a bit of research for a bit; then we went out to brave the heat on foot again. Fort Cornwallis is basically ...
Day 120
This is a top pick! ... in to Georgetown and tried some Roti Canai - like a miniature curry and naan bread. Then I found the night market and had some noodle soup from a Chinese vendor. I'm beginning to enjoy Malaysia's ethnic simply for the food options! ...
Finally in Malaysia
This is a top pick! ... that we had booked a ferry and busses through one company to take us all the way to a place called Khota Bahru, in the north of Malaysia, right next to the most southerly part of Thailand. It was to be a boat, a bus to a town in Thailand called Hat Yai, ...
Penang
This is a top pick! Penang has a reputation as a great place for shopping and eating. The shopping there is questionable, Needless to say eating was higher on the priority list (check out how many photos there are of us with some form of food in front of us! -- they have ...
Toys
This is a top pick! Penang cannot be done in 2 days. Fact. This place does deserve so much more time dedicated to it. Personally I think back to big cities we have visited where we have wasted away time not really doing anything (Kunming and Bangkok come immediately to ...
Funicular Fun
This is a top pick! ... more listening, to a Moroccan guy who had been here a few years ago and seemed to know a heck of a lot about Penang and Malaysia. For all I knew though he could have been making most of it up, spewing endless tales of imaginative waffle but at least it ...
Wandering in the Rain - Then Drying Out
This is a top pick! We have the leave the country every 90 days, so we've done quick trips to Cambodia, Burma, Vietnam, KL, and even Singapore (which sucks by the way). But we had never been to Penang, and we’d heard a few good things. So we used some credit with Air ...
"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 ...
Take it to the bridge
This is a top pick! We woke late again and met Rorie and Emer at about 11am after breakfast. I had a quick samosa and a piece of toast then we set off to get the public bus to the Penang National Park. The bus took longer than expected being about an hour but took us ...
Temples and Funiculars
This is a top pick! After a strange bus journey from Georgetown that took us way past our destination, the bus driver drove us back to the depot and told us to get on another bus back to where we actually wanted to go - the Kek Lok Si temple. Eventually arriving at our ...
Malaysia - Location Summary
This is a top pick! LOCATION SUMMARY - Malaysia Location: Kuala Lumpur, Borneo, Kota Bharu, Penang Duration: 17 days Sights 5 People 5 Food 4 ...
Food Heaven
This is a top pick! ... clean everything is and how polite the people are. And no one has tried to sell us a single thing since we arrived in Malaysia. Anyway, tomorrow we are off to the beach via a two-hour ferry ride to Langkawi. We are looking forward seeing Malaysia's ...
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! Another delightfully peaceful journey sat in the darkened hollowed out pit of a large boat, this time with the insufferable sounds of Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday and Rasputin by the lyrical genius that is Boney M, skipping ...