Tuesday October 29

We did a walking tour of Georgetown today. Georgetown is one of the 3 straits trading cities set up by Great Britain during the 18^th century.  It has a long British history and is now one of the top tourist cities in Malaysia       

State Mosque

Temple Roof

Clan Jetty

We started at our hotel and took in the old colonial buildings first and then after our café latte we went into Little India.  This has to be as close to India as it gets without actually being in India. Gold, jewellery, and clothes are all in the Indian fashion and the food is all Indian as well.  We all decided we like Indian food.   We visited the clan jetties where the Chinese clans own the jetty and there are hundreds of homes and businesses clustered on 1 jetty.  The newer additions have stilts made of concrete filled plastic pails.  It really is a city within a city.                                                                             

   Just before sunset we took a funicular up to the top of Penang hill.  The funicular goes up 800 meters in one shot and takes about 15 minutes.  It was built 100 years ago, but it has new cars and it runs very smoothly.  The sun set and the city lit up and I got my pictures of Georgetown and the Neon lit temple at the top of the hill.      

Georgetown at night