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Features, Malaysia, Towns

Feature on the Street Art of Penang

If you’re looking for a story – you won’t find it here 😉 You’ll find it here!

Georgetown has some of the most incredible and inspiring street art on the planet. You can spend months trying to find them all, extract their meaning and appreciate their colours under different lights and weather.

With the few days I was there, I was lucky to catch quite a few of them. Here are the ones I found! If you can’t feel the magnitude and colours of these pieces, you’ll just have to go visit.

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Features, Malaysia, Towns

Feature on the Shutters of Georgetown

Wandering into studiohoward, a chic photographic boutique in Georgetown, I was fortunate enough to bump into the resident photographer and owner, known simply as “Howard”. Talking to him about his photography, he told us that it’s “not about the camera you use, or the places you go. It’s about creativity, and expression. There is no such thing as the right lens, or even the right photograph.” Deep! I was certainly inspired.

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Adventures, Malaysia, Towns

Penang – let’s hang! Day 4 – Penang Hill

“You’ve never been to Penang unless you’ve been to Penang Hill” – that’s what the slogans say. Usually you would get to Penang Hill by cable car from the base station on the outskirts of Penang, but this was closed for renovation. This actually presented a great opportunity for us to get to the top with very few tourists around, so we decided to hike up.

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