penang revisited

Georgetown is the capital Penang Island and it is located on the west coast of peninsular Malaysia. In 2008, Georgetown was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Recently I revisited Penang as a tourist; went for sight seeing and snapping photos of interesting buildings around Georgetown.

I did not follow any heritage trail map but I used the route of hop on free Central Area Transit (CAT) as a guide. There are 19 stops in between all the well-known heritage landmarks and it runs from 6 AM to 12 midnight. Thanks to CAT, my sight seeing was very convenient (although I left out some heritage spots).

Here are photos of some the heritage landmarks based on CAT station names:

2 Feri / Ferry

Wisma Yeap Chor Ee

Wisma Kastam

4 Imigresen / Immigration

Standard Chartered Building

HSBC Building

Royal Bank of Scotland

Logan's building

5 Bank Negara / National Bank

City Hall

Town Hall

War Memorial

6 Muzium / Museum

St. George's Church

Church of the Assumption

Convent Light Street

 

Court Building

St. Xavier's Institution

8 Lebuh Campbell / Campbell Street

Benggali Mosque

14 Lebuh Carnarvon / Carnarvon Street

Penang Islamic Museum

Sun Yat Sen Penang base 

15 Kampong Kolam

Acheen Street Mosque

Kapitan Keling Mosque

17 Dewan Sri Penang / Sri Penang Hall

Dewan Sri Penang

Logan Memorial and High Court building

18 Kota Cornwallis / Fort Cornwallis

Fort Cornwallis

State Assembly Building

19 Lebuh Downing / Downing Street

Islamic Council Building

This took me almost whole day from 10 AM onwards to 4 PM and I have missed out some landmarks. So, to complete the route, I think one may need to start from 8 or 9 AM. Due to current hot and dry weather, one may consider to stop for a break either at Prangin Mall or Komtar especially between 12 noon to 2 PM, the hottest period of the day.

Do you know that there is a vintage toy museum in Penang? Yup, there is one located at Lebuh Acheh. Stay tuned as I will share my visit to the vintage toy museum and my thrift finds at Penang Salvation Army's thrift store. 

Happy Monday and have a great week ahead!