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Pulau Penang Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Pulau Penang, Malaysia
Penang, the spice Island
... , no hassling. It was a bit different than the situation at some markets. It was with this positive view of Malaysia that we headed by bus to Penang. This is a 5 hour trip in a very comfortable coach with deep seats - only 3 to a row. The service ...
2009/04/04&05&06 - Georgetown
... is the road out. When I arrived on the ferry from Butterworth to Georgetown on the north eastern island of Penang in Malaysia, I was worried about arriving in another unappealing city. The city was unique to anything I had seen so far in ...
Penang
So we're off on our travels again, after a few days around Langkawi. We're heading down the West coast of Malaysia to Penang. Now we have an extra person with us, Claire's friend from school Kat. We caught a ferry from Kuah to Georgetown, the main place ...
Fassaden-Safari und Schrankenwald
Neue Woche und vielleicht auch neues Glück. Wir beschließen eine verdeckte Offensive auf die umliegenden Touri-Vermittler zu starten. Die Nachricht von überschwemmten Landstrichen und brachliegendem Schienenverkehr im Süden Thailands ist offenbar ...
Butterbrot und Praxisgebühr
... hat: schwere Regenfälle haben Teile Malaysias und Thailands in eine unschöne Insellandschaft verwandelt. Zwar sind wir hier auf Penang nicht direkt betroffen, aber unsere geplante Route führt durch Gebiete, auf deren Straßen momentan mehr Boote als ...
Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia
It was a long travel day today as we left Thailand and crossed over the border into Malaysia and our destination of Geogetown, ...
I'm going down, down, down, down to Georgetown
... leave them alone, in return for annual payments. Don't you love it? It was Chinese New Year's Eve in a city holding Malaysia's strongest Chinese population. But there wasn't much noise being made, as everyone was in with their families. A few families ...
Malaysia - Truly Asia
... ein bisschen wohler gefuehlt. Im Grenzort haben wir mit der Unterstuetzung Einheimischer die Weiterfahrt auf die Insel Penang - unser erstes Ziel in Malaysia - organisiert. Am Abend kamen wir an und hatten nur noch eine begrenzte Auswahl an Zimmern, ...
Temple Kek Lok Si, Penang
Aujourd'hui nous sommes sortis un peu de Georgetown pour aller visiter le temple Kek Lok Si à Air Itam, toujours sur l'île de Penang. C'est le plus gros temple boudhiste de Malaisie. Il est aussi un des symboles du pays comme les tours Petronas de Kuala ...
Penang
Georgetown is decent sized town, located in north west Malaysia, on the island of Penang, in the straits of Melaka. The architecture is very similar to that of the town of Melaka due to it’s colonial heritage, but the majority Chinese ...