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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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We wolfed down an urgently needed breakfast at the hostel (apparently McDonald’s leaves me with a raging morning appetite) and met up with the British volunteer, Charlie, to hop onto the bus over to the mangrove forest. We thought we were going kayaking, but we had no idea what was really in store…
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Langkawi is a beautiful yet relatively well-developed island off the West coast of Malaysia, not far from Thailand. It’s easily reached by boat from Georgetown.
I took a couple of shots on the journey in – a beautiful and serene experience among fogs which left us wondering what we’d got ourselves into…
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Clara still wasn’t feeling great this morning, so I wandered out alone with the intention of blitzing the museums I’d postponed. I stopped first at a little chocolate and coffee museum.
Continue reading Penang – you rang? Day 5 – movin’ out. →
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.
Continue reading Feature on the Shutters of Georgetown →
“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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We packed our stuff and shifted hostel this morning, moving via a pharmacy to pick up cream and bandages for my foot. I then got a message from Sam, my dive buddy from the Perhentians, letting us know he made it to Penang and was free to hang out. Great!
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It’s a culture day today! The four of us from last night regrouped and set out, eager to see what the city’s really made of.
Continue reading Penang – big fan! Day 2 – Culture and Chaos →
Following a late (yet thankfully uneventful) flight from Myanmar, I hitched a bus from Penang airport and arrived at just on 5am at the port town of Kuala Besut, gateway to the Perhentian Islands (pronounced “Per-hen-tee-an”, not shee-an).
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Wow, Penang! All throughout my little journey; from stepping out of the bus in central Georgetown, winding my way through Little India at 7am, perusing the temple of the Goddess of Mercy and sauntering down Love Lane onto Muntri street (I was aiming for the Ryokan Muntri Guest House), I couldn’t help but stare at the colourful shutters, dusty porches and shiny steel street-food stalls that make up Georgetown. I knew from the first few moments that I would love this island. I was in such awe, I didn’t take any pictures!
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