Photos from George Town, Penang, Malaysia, Asia - page 98

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a bloody big insect

Pit viper

Buddha inside Snake Temple

Ornate Snake Temple

Snake Temple

More washing up at the hawker stalls

View from jetty

Another temple in Little India

A typical Georgetown store

Lebuh Leith

Chinese community at jetty - you can just make out the stilts in the water.

Another temple

Smarter government buildings run along Lebuh Light. named after Captain Francis Light who founded Penang.

Basket weaving, one of the last original trades of Georgetown.

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Not sure what this was, a combo of noodles, crayfish and spices - really tasty. All for 60p.

Typical Georgetown street

Main facilities next to City Hall - worrying.

Rickshaw driver sleeping in street

Main path through the Chinese community at the jetty

A few Anchor beers later...

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Red Garden Food Paradise, Lebuh Leith

RBS Penang, 6500 miles from home and I still can't escape it.

The Victoria Clocktower, early evening.

Red Garden Food 'Paradise' - the results.

Queen Victoria Memorial Clocktower - god bless her........

Another hawker stall

Another Georgetown street

Typical 'hawker' stall set-up

Typical Lebuh (street) in Georgetown

Maniprandi at the end of the 1h tour, no wonder he looks 100 doing that for a living

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Our rickshaw driver Maniprandi with Darren outside yet another shrine at the Penang jetty

Inside one the Chinese homes at the jetty

Chinese fishing village at the jetty

Chinese fishing village - on stilts at sea

Ferry to George Town from Butterworth

Spicy but good!

Up in the clouds

Yummy

Tasty

Quite charming and rustic

George Town

Strawberry farm

Mmm...we realsed these are Malaysian Style after all

Juicy

Couldn't refuse really!

The centre of the flower

Sprouting

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe...more history

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