Georgetown Travel Blogs

Our bus arrived in Penang at around 3 in the morning.  Still drowsy & with nowhere to go, we decided to sleep in the bus until the break of dawn.   When the sun was up, we got out of the bus and asked around how to go to the pier for Butterworth, as well as to GeorgeTown and i…

Saturday morning: I was up at 8am, couldn't sleep in much longer, which is funny as I like sleeping in on weekends. I guess when you're on vacation and you know you're leaving, you want to make sure you're ready and packed to check out on time. Kim got in the shower after I was done with it, and …

It's rare we have to wake up in the dark these days and doing so to catch our bus from the Cameron Highlands down to Penang seemed really strange. It brought back nasty memories of the bad old days when we had jobs, eeerrgh. We settled up our room bill and headed of to walk the short distance to th…

We arrived in Georgetown in the very early morning after the second consecutive night on a sleeper train. We pulled into Butterworth, mainland port for Penang, at 5.30am - or at least the front half of the train did, whilst we were stuck about 4 carriages away from the platform with a bunch of mupp…

From Ipoh I hop on another bus to Penang which looks like an interesting place to visit.  The bus actually only goes as far as Butterworth, where I find myself stuck in a muddy bus station in the pouring rain. One cool thing about Malaysia are the covered sidewalks and overpasses meant to pro…

My first trip to Malaysia to "meet the parents"! Scary! My wife and I were married in 2001 and finally made the trip to her former home. A real eye-opener for me as previously the farthest I had been from home was Europe!

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After Singapore,riding out of Johor on a network of buisy motorways and highways in heavy tropical showers  was a cal lback to the chaos that is more often than not the reality of south east asia; Trucs pushing past us whilst blasting us with black diesel fumes and water, rickshaws at nearly s…

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Penang's capital city is an interesting mix of Malaysian modernity, British colonialism, and a strong Chinese influence. Numerous colonial era buildings line the narrow streets, and there are some fabulous mansions dotted around the town...though many are in decay despite heritage preservation grou…

What gives?! I was supposed to be in Taman Negara national park right now, enjoying the oldest rainforrest in the world... Instead I ended up on a gruelling 7 hours busride from the highlands, here to Georgetown, Penang. I didn't get on the wrong bus though this allmost did happen. I'd already sat…