Travel Blog Photos from Georgetown, Penang Island (108)
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... The towers and Skybridge were seen in the movie "Entrapment" with Caterine Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery. Today, after running errands, I took a luxury bus for the 5 hour journey to Penang Island. I'll be going out for another nice asian dinner tonight.
... the water was milky looking and not inviting, lots of surfski hire and horseriding on the beach. I arrived in Georgetown with no accommodation booking but a recommendation from the Chinese restaurant I had eaten at in Batu Ferringhi. ...
Penang was actually rather lovely. The first night we got there, we went up the funicular railway, to the top of Penang Hill, some 710m above sea level, to watch the sunset. However, it was a bit cloudy, and very polluted and we couldn't really see much. ...
... our boat ticket to Sumutra.... Don't know if its its proximity to Thailand and Indonesia but compared to elsewhere in Malaysia Georgetown seems less friendly, more seedy, and far more dodgy! It's one of our least favourite destinations. In hindsight we ...
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