On the first week of the December school holiday Penang trip, we drove to Ipoh and Taiping, then back to Penang for another two weeks. Ipoh Accommodation Within 3 hours drive from Penang to Ipoh, we stayed at The Haven All Suite Resort. I booked this hotel after reading reviews about its tranquil surrounds of…
Penang Attractions
Penang Snake Temple: Beware of the Fangs!
No, it’s not a zoo. The snakes are everywhere and not kept in any enclosures. One glance at the triangular head, you know they are venomous snakes. Those are pit vipers. Wagler’s pit vipers. So where on earth is this place? You are now on an island, somewhere in Penang, Malaysia… … You are in…
Hungry Ghost in Penang
If you are Penangite, I guess you pretty much know about this statue outside Penang Berjaya Times Square. I heard that many people took photos of it. It’s a big European man instructing a muscular Indonesian coolie with big biceps to carry the heavy loads to somewhere. Of cos, you won’t see this kind of…
Chew Jetty: The Old Water Village
At one glance, I thought it was just another old residential area in Georgetown, a Unesco World Heritage Site in Penang, Malaysia. Little did I knew that the moment I stepped on the wooden platform, I was already over the water. The Chew Jetty is the largest among the other seven waterfront settlements housing different…
UNESCO World Heritage 2008: Georgetown
Added another UNESCO World Heritage site into my list of travelled places. Georgetown, the historic capital of Penang island, is listed by UNESCO in 2008 for its unique architectural and cultural townscape. The City Hall colony building in white. It was a stormy day with huge waves hitting the wall. Fyi, the devastating Indian Ocean…