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Jom pakat mai bercuti kat penang
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aku buka ni untuk memperkenalkan lagi pulau pinang kat hangpa, kalau siapa ada apa2 cadangan tempat yg menarik kat penang jom kita kongsi.
Back to Nature
Minutes away from the hustle and bustle of the city is Penang’s natural heritage -- her emerald green hills and golden sandy beaches.
Leisure activities are varied -- tennis to golf, riding to scuba diving. Penang is one place where you can jog, cycle, sunbathe, sail, beachcomb, snorkel and windsurf. Click here for more details.
Myriad Celebration
Penang's multi-cultural composition ensures a succession of colourful, exciting festivals and celebrations that are unrivalled anywhere else in the world. Considering the number of special events, festivals, celebrations, gods and deities' birthdays and religious occasions among the three main race groups (Malays, Chinese and Indians) when one big celebration is finished, another is just about to begin.
Penangites are always game for an excuse to celebrate and feast, and there is much enthusiasm, painstaking preparation and merry-making all year round. Thus, Penang sees a kaleidoscope of festivals and celebrations which seems to last the entire year. Click here for more details.
Culinary Adventure
Having a reputation as a food paradise, be it haute cuisine, or cuisine bourgeoise (hawker fare), Penang offers a heady and exotic mix of delicious cuisine to choose from.
Indulge! Savour! Click here for more details.
Rich Legacy
George Town, the state capital of Penang, has one of the largest collections of 19th, and early 20th century buildings in Southeast Asia. It is a living historic city, with inner city communities, places of worship, guilds, wet markets and bazaars, traditional trades and retail shops, trishaw peddlers and hawkers.
Daily, hundreds of tourists both local and foreign, visit this vast preservation of treasures in George Town, in which may be seen and enjoyed the story of Penang's man-made heritage.
As the starting point of Penang's multicultural community, the inner city of George Town has many houses of worship, guilds, mosques, temples, clanhouses, district associations, sanghams and lodges which are Penang's 'open museums' of migration and cultural history. The many heritage tour guides are only too happy to reveal to the visitor the beauty and wonder, and the inspiration and spiritual meaning that lie behind each building, each community and each culture. Click here for more details.
sumber http://www.tourismpenang.gov.my/2007esite.htm
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kat mane jual jeruk2 tu...terliur nyer... |
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chowrasta market bertentang dengan headquarters polis |
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char kuey teow tak dak ka.......... |
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aku nak post gambar rumah p.ramlee tp slow la potobuket.. |
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Reply #8 plamsat's post
t.kasih sudi tlg aku... |
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Balas #11 BabeYSHa\ catat
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aku tak harap sangat kerajaan nak buat cepat2 jambatan no 2 tu. biasalah negeri pembangkang, lagi pun ekonomi tak ok sangat mesti kena tunggu dulu kot, buat mesti buat la tapi bila tak tau lagi la. sedangkan pelebaran jambatan yg dok ada la ni pun macam slow saja aku nampak |
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Penang Botanical Gardens Waterfall  (pengalaman pelancong)
http://www.asiaexplorers.com/mal ... rdens_waterfall.htm
Having explored almost all of Penang Island, I have to say that the Penang Waterfall has always been one of those places that I have wanted to explored, and until now, have not gained access. The thought of having to seek approval from the Penang Water Authority (Perbadanan Bekalan Air Pulau Pinang) seemed too tedious a task, so for all these years visiting the waterfall was put in the backburner.
View of the Penang Botanical Gardens Waterfall.
As luck has it, I learned from one of our AsiaExplorers members that the Friends of the Penang Botanic Gardens, a non-governmental organisation, is now organising monthly visits to the waterfall. So I quickly registered myself for the visit - and at the same time, signing up to be a member of the society.
Like most Penangites, I was introduced to the Penang Waterfall through the colonial watercolours hanging in the Penang State Museum. I often heard of the Penang Waterfall through the "older generation" within my family. Aunties and older brothers would speak of the waterfall within the Botanical Gardens, and how much the young generation missed out in having their access to the waterfall cut off.
Indeed, to them the botanical gardens should rightfully be known as the Waterfall Gardens, and the road leading up to it is Waterfall Road, or Jalan Air Terjun, not the present-day Jalan Kebun Bunga. However, somewhere in time, there was a shift in emphasis from the waterfall to the gardens.
The "somewhere in time" was in the sixties or early seventies, when the Penang waterfall was closed off to the public as a safety measure. It was done during the Confrontation between the newly independent Malaysia and Indonesia. However, though the turbulent episode is now a page in history, the waterfall has never again been open to the public. Hence, entire generations of Penangites have grown up not knowing the existence of this fall or to appreciate it being there.
It must have been an awesome sight. Early visitors to Penang Island described it as one of the key attractions of the island, including Ibrahim Munshi, son of the well-known Abdullah Munshi, who described it in his journal, the Kisah Pelayaran. Indeed, the waterfall was an important source of water for ships calling at Penang port in the early part of the 19th century. In 1805, an aquaduct was erected to channel water for the fall via Pulau Tikus to a reservoir near Leith Street Ghaut and Hutton Lane respectively. The quality of the water, filtered through the aged rocks of Penang Hill, was very high, and was described by the early sailors as "sweet".
The verdant forest forms an excellent water catchment area.
That it happens to be within the water catchment area vital to the supply needs of the island has resulted in the Penang Waterfall being closed to the public. In actual fact, only a small proportion of Penang water supply comes from this particular source - only 10-15% of the population is lucky enough to get their water from here, while much of the island gets its water supply comes from Sungai Muda, on the border of Penang and Kedah.
The quality of this water supply has long been recognised. In 1804, the first water treatment plant in Malaysia was set up here, to supply to the needs of 10,000 people in Penang. The oval-shaped reservoir of the Penang Waterfall was constructed in the gardens in 1892 by British engineer J. MacRitchie (the same municipal engineer who in 1894 lend his name to the MacRitchie Reservoir in Singapore). It was reconstructed in 1950.
In around 1910, after the Penang Botanical Gardens were established, the water authorities considered enlarging the reservoir by blocking access to the garden and flooding the valley. Thankfully that plan was not carried out, and the gardens were saved.
The visit to the Waterfall today, organised by the Friends of the Penang Botanic Gardens Society, as attended mostly by members of AsiaExplorers. The tour was conducted by Dr Liew of the society. In addition to the waterfall, we were also given a tour of the gardens, but I shall leave the description of the gardens to another time.
To reach the waterfall, we first entered the water treatment plant of the Penang Water Authority (PBA). To do that, Dr Liew has to present an authorisation letter from the PBA. We were shown how raw water was made ready for consumption. Then we climbed the steps to visit the waterfall. By the look at the steps, they must have been placed there at least a hundred years ago, and probably more.
Before we reached the waterfall, we could hear it from a distance. And we could see the Sungai Air Terjun that runs off it on our left. Finally we saw the famous waterfall, and it was indeed a sight to behold. Below it was the famous bridge that appears in so many old paintings.
The Waterfall consisted of three main falls, each time emptying into a pool. On the third fall, it separates into two parts that joins back to form a Y. According to Dr Liew, during the wet season, the two sections of the fall merge to form a single cascade of water. The height of all the falls total about four hundred feet.
We spent the next twenty minutes or so shooting the falls to our hearts' content. I find it difficult to properly represent the fall on photograph. Since it is so huge, it appears like a small stream of water when photographed in whole. To better appreciate the gushing water, I showed sections of the fall.
The fall as seen from the forest canopies. |
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Pagoda of 10,000 Buddhas, Kek Lok Si Temple, Ayer Itam, Penang.
Penang Hill, also known as Bukit Bendera, is a collection of hills on the central portion of Penang, with the highest peak being Western Hill, at 830 meters above sea level. With 2032 persons per square kilometer on Penang Island and 866 persons per square kilometer in Seberang Perai, Penang is the most densely populated state in Malaysia. 66% of the population is Chinese (1995), 23% Malay and 11% Indian. |
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History of Penang
Penang was founded in 1786 when the Sultan of Kedah handed it over to the British East India Company, in return for a promise to protect it from invasion by Siamese and Burmese forces. Captain Francis Light was looking for a base to be used as a British trading post. He explored different places including Phuket before settling on Penang. On 11 August 1786, Francis Light landed on Penang and named it Prince of Wales Island.
The location of Penang at the mouth of the Straits of Malacca makes it an attractive choice for a British outpost. It has a natural harbour for trading ships and can be developed into a naval base to counter a growing French ambition in the region. Francis Light named the settlement at the northeastern tip of Penang as George Town, after King George III (1738-1820).
When handing Penang over to Francis Light, the Sultan of Kedah was unaware that Light was acting without the approval of his superiors to offer military protection. When it became clear that the British had no intention of protecting Kedah from Siam, the Sultan of Kedah tried to retake Penang in 1790. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the Sultan was forced to cede Penang to the East India Company for an honorarium of 6000 Spanish dollars per annum. When Province Wellesley was added to Penang in 1800, this amount was increased to 10,000 Spanish dollars. The Malaysian government continues to pay this annual honorarium of 10,000 ringgit to the state of Kedah. In 1821, Siamese forces conquered Kedah and it remained under Siamese control until it was transferred to the British by the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909.
In 1826, Penang, along with Malacca and Singapore, became part of the Straits Settlements under the British administration from India. From 1867, it came under direct British colonial rule. In 1946, after the end of World War II, Penang became part of the Malayan Union, before becoming a state of the Federation of Malaya in 1948. In 1963 Penang became one of the 13 states of Malaysia.
George Town was accorded city status by Queen Elizabeth II on January 1, 1957. This makes it the first town in the then Federation of Malaya to become a city, after Singapore. Still on display at the Penang State Museum is the royal charter granting George Town its city status and the petition from the Penang residents to Queen Elizabeth II in this regard. However, as a result of local government reorganisations in 1976, the City Council of George Town was merged with the neighbouring Penang Rural District Council to form the Municipal Council of Penang Island (Majlis Perbandaran Pulau Pinang). Although the city status of George Town was never officially revoked, the state and federal governments are of the view that it has ceased to exist. In recent years, local resentment has grown as relatively insignificant towns such as Alor Setar have been designated cities. The state government has announced its intention to petition the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia for a regrant of city status once the city's new boundaries are agreed.
The island was a free port until 1969. Since the 1970s, Penang has built up one of the largest electronics manufacturing bases in Asia, in the Free Trade Zone around the airport in the south of the island. Its colonial history and Penang’s awareness of its past legacy, many buildings of colonial times can still be seen today. Such buildings include the City Hall, the Town Hall, the Eastern & Oriental Hotel, the Old Court House, Suffolk House (Francis Light’s residence), Uplands International School building, Standard Chartered Bank building and the HSBC Bank building. Local conservation groups such at the Penang Heritage Trust are lobbying the Penang state government to restore many of Penang's historical buildings but sadly a number of them have dilapidated beyond repair.
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Penang Food
Penang, particularly Penang Island, is often regarded as a food paradise among Malaysias and Singaporeans. Penang's cuisine reflects the Chinese, Nyonya, Malay and Indian ethnic mix with a strong influenced by the cuisine of Thailand. Penang is famous for its hawker fare, which is food sold by itinerant vendors by the sidewalk.
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Penang Sights
There are numerous places of interest in Penang, and a growing list of them are being documented on the pages of AsiaExplorers. Click on the thumbnails below to open pages where the sights in Penang are carefully documented and categorized. |
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yahoo...aku nak g Penang sekali lagik.......... |
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Balas #19 sfhzuraz\ catat
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baguih la tu nanti aku update lagi, mana tau boleh bantu hangpa dalam pencarian tempat menarik kat penang |
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Post time 30-12-2008 04:19 PM
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Post time 31-12-2008 10:41 AM
