August 3 - 5, 2012 @ George Town, Penang, Malaysia


Usually flight delay, but ours is early!

Lounge @ Hotel Penaga

The Library @ Hotel Penaga

Lobby @ Hotel Penaga

Front desk @ Hotel Penaga

A heritage boutique hotel

Lift lobby

Restored heritage buildings converted into a luxury boutique hotel

Loft

Hutton room with loft

Antique style furniture

A bit dim in the room

Hallway

Love their colorful window

Bathroom with jacuzzi bath

View from balcony

Breakfast buffet

Paper wrapped rice dumplings

Normal rice not sticky rice

Nicely decorated

With good use of daylight

Hotel Penaga

Atmosphere likened to that of Singapore back in the 1960s and 1970s

Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion aka Blue Mansion

Former home of tycoon Cheong Fatt Tze

3D bat as décor

Also serve as a hotel nowadays

George town was listed by UNESCO in 2008 as a World Heritage Site

Hainan Temple

Most of the wall/ceiling paintings in George Town are 3D

Found in 1866

Stone lion

Many 3D craftings on the wall

Dedicated to the patron saint of seafarers, the goddess Mar Chor

Lock

Remind me of anicent courtroom

Vibrant painting

Josephine

Me

Hostel, really old window frames on second floor

Interesting translation of the Chinese from English *LoveLane*

More 3D figures on the columns

The town is filled with these interesting cartoon

They have done a good job in making this town tourist friendly

Inscent stick, extra long

Extra long and with dragon style

Teochew Temple

FF @ dragon inscent

Detail 3D craft on the roof

More cartoon decor

St. George Church

Well-preserved colonial core

Said to be the oldest Anglican church in Southeast Asia

Old Penang Hill Railway

Penang State Museum

Cathedral of the Assumption

Logan Memorial

Town Hall

City Hall

Populat place for wedding pictures

Well-preserved colonial core

Save the world!

Gunpowder magazine

Sri Rambai Cannon

Guard over the island*s cape

Josephine

Eatable fruit?

Built when Captain Francis Light first landed on Penang

Fort Cornwallis

State Assembly Buildings

Queen Victoria Memorial Clock Tower

Bank in colonial style builing

Vintage

Nice lantern

Jo @ The Pinang Peranakan Mansion

Courtyard @ Pinang Peranakan Mansion

Interesting roof

Temple @ King Street

Chinese temple adopting Hindu temple style

Detail craft work

Dragon inscent

Nicest henna ever!

Milk tea?

Indian for lunch

Little India

Teochew Temple

Roof verges and descending ridge

A prime example of Teochew architecture

The ridge decorations of prayer pavilion

Color figures on the door

AKA Han Jiang Teochew Ancestral Temple

Mahamariamman Temple

The oldest Hindu temple in George Town

Kapitan Keling Mosque

Yap Temple

She Tek Tong Cheah Kongsi

Chinese architecture with British lion heads on the teample

Dragon decor

Street art

More cartoon

Yap Temple

Detail columns

Man with breast?

shophouses dating from the 19th century still surviving

Take a peek of?

Masjid Melayu Lebuh Arheh

George Town

UNESCO #1223

Supermarket in the 60s

HK in the 60s

Gold store without large window display

Campbell House, we considered this one too

After a long and hote day, drinks at the bar

Penang from Bukit Bendera

Josephine

Jo is my *oldest* friend of all!

Sunset @ Bukit Bendera

830m above sea level

Sunset @ Bukit Bendera

Nightview @ Bukit Bendera

Nightview @ Bukit Bendera

Penang Bridge

Nightview @ Bukit Bendera

Nightview @ Bukit Bendera

Nightview @ Bukit Bendera

Nightview @ Bukit Bendera

Nice view with wifi @ Sky Terrace

Penang Hill Railway

The tram is 45 degree angle

Hawkers @ Lorong Baru

So many to choose from

Satay

Our selections

Fried rice cake, yummy

Satay of course

My new purse (fish cake actually)

Nightlife @ Upper Penang Road

Cover charge was quite deep

VVIP?

Heaven for HK girls, mostly guys here

Fight broke out when we left

Few things are embedded in each of the paintings

Pool @ Hotel Penanga

We are twin!!

Beautiful wall painting

Dharmikarama Burmese Temple

The first Buddhist temple in Penang

Pagoda

Smaller side temple

Gigantic statue of Lord Buddha

Lord Buddha @ Shrine Hall

Buddha donated by different part of the world

Can you find Buddha

Lord Buddha @ Shrine Hall

Very golden temple

Panca Rupa standing over a replica of the world globe

Alarm the bell for good luck

Small temple @ Dharmikarama Burmese Temple

Arahant Upagutta

Arahant Upagutta

The epic renunciation

Dhammesika Betong Vihar

The golden pagoda bell tower

Warrior @ Entrance

Kakusanda Buddha @ Bell Tower

Kassapa Buddha

Bell tower

Color temple

Wat Chayamangkalaram

A Thai Buddhist temple in George Town, Penang

A perfect day for taking pictures

Most notable for its Reclining Buddha statue

3rd largest of its kind

Reclining position symbolizes the Mahaparinirvana of the Buddha which took place at Kushinagara

Huge feet

33 meters in length

Smaller shrines of different Buddhas

Beautiful wallpaper

Lotus shaped candle

Buddha in nearby temple

Buddha on window

You can donate a Buddha

Kuan Yin

Kuan Yin on the window frame

Kuan Yin wallpaper

Vibrant dragon

Four faced Buddha

State Mosque

Kuan Yin, the Goddess of Mercy

A giant 36.5m high statue

Completed after donations from mainland Chinese in 2003

Weird Kuan Yin head out of nowhere

Disney characters @ temple

Kek Lok Si complex

Make a wish

AKA Temple of Supreme Bliss

Side view

You can see this from far far away

Kek Lok Si aka Temple of Supreme Bliss

Reputed to be the largest Buddhist temple in South-East Asia

Ban Po Thar aka Ten Thousand Buddhas Tower

Buddha inside the main temple

Beautiful ceiling

A sprawling hillside structure

Sham Tseng roasted goose after the trip

Dessert @ Fat Kee Sham Tseng

A bit overrated and overpriced


Penang hill offers a panoramic view of the city


View of Penang Bridge and Georgetown from Penang Hill


Dharmikarama Burmese Temple


Wat Chayamangkalaram


View from Kek Lok Si complex


Kek Lok Si aka Temple of Supreme Bliss