Tag: tourism
Ah Quee Street Art
Painted by Ernest Zacharevic at the old walls along Ah Quee Street.
Penang Isle: The Snake Temple
The Snake Temple (also known as Temple of the Azure Clouds) is located at the sourthern end of Penang, not far from the Penang International Airport. The small temple is home to a few varieties of snake species, mostly pit vipers (although the number of snakes there are getting fewer now due to nearby industrial development).
According to legend, the temple was built in to worship a deified monk who was also a great healer. Before the building of the temple, the monk had given shelter to the snakes of the nearby jungle and when the temple was completed, the snakes moved in.
A Penang Trishaw
Once a common mode of travel in George Town, the trishaw (or also known as beca, rickshaw) now serves mostly as a tourist transportation which carries passengers around the streets of George Town in a leisurely pace.
Beach Street: Tourism Malaysia Office
This building currently (as of October 2014) houses the Penang office of Tourism Malaysia.
Penang Isle: Fort Cornwallis
Built during the British rule, Fort Cornwallis is the largest fort still remaining in Malaysia. This old star-shaped fort is situated at the north-eastern side of Penang island. The fort is named after Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis who was the Governor General of Bengal, India in the late 18th century.
Captain Sir Francis Light took possession of the island from the Sultan of Kedah in 1786 and built the original fort. It was a nibong (Malay: palm trunk) stockade with no permanent structures, covering an area of 417.6 square feet (38.80 m2). Despite the fort’s original purpose to serve the Royal artillery troops and the military, historically it was more for administrative purpose than defensive.
