Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Penang Island
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1
2
67
Georgetown
Mukka
Head
Mukka
Head
2
5
4
Tanjung
Bunga
Tanjung
Bunga
3
PENINSULAR
MALAYSIA
Penang
Island
Batu
Feringgi
Batu
Feringgi
Tanjung
Tokong
Tanjung
Tokong
Teluk
Bahang
Teluk
Bahang
76
1
Taiping
Taiping
Ipoh
Ipoh
6
7
Pantai
Mas
Pantai
Mas
See "Georgetown" map
See "Georgetown" map
Pantai
Acheh
Pantai
Acheh
G E O R G E T O W N
G E O R G E T O W N
GEORGETOWN
GEORGETOWN
8
Air Hitam
Air Hitam
Jelutung
Jelutung
Sungai Rusa
Sungai Rusa
Selat Utara
Selat Utara
Sungai
Pinang
Sungai
Pinang
Gelugor
Gelugor
Kasan
Kasan
Paya Terubong
Paya Terubong
Batu Uban
Batu Uban
Balik
Pulau
Balik
Pulau
To Mainland Malaysia
To Mainland Malaysia
Selat
Melaka
Selat
Melaka
Kebun
Besar
Kebun
Besar
Sungai
Nibung
Sungai
Nibung
Selat Selatan
Selat Selatan
Relau
Relau
Pekan
Genting
Pekan
Genting
Bandan
Bayar
Baru
Bandan
Bayar
Baru
13
Penara
Penara
0
2 mi
Bayan
Lepas
Bayan
Lepas
Teluk
Kumbar
Teluk
Kumbar
0
2 km
Gertak
Sanggul
Gertak
Sanggul
Batu
Maung
Batu
Maung
THAILAND
THAILAND
9
Bakar
Kapur
Bakar
Kapur
PENINSULAR
MALAYSIA
Penang
Island
ATTRACTIONS
Batu Feringgi night bazaar
2
Batu Muang Fishing Village
9
Botanical Gardens
7
Gurney Plaza
6
Penang Butterfly Farm
1
Penang Hill
8
ACCOMMODATIONS
Golden Sands Resort
by Shangri-La
4
Holiday Inn
Resort Penang
5
Shangri-La's Rasa
Sayang Resort & Spa
3
Kuala
Kuala
Lumpur
Kuala
Lumpur
Lumpur
DINING
Gurney Drive
foodstalls
6
Long Beach
food court
2
0
100 mi
0
100 km
SINGAPORE
chewed habitually throughout the East (and in some par ts still is). I n the 15th centur y,
it was a quiet place populated b y small M alay communities, attracting the inter est of
some southern Indian betel merchants. By the time Francis Light, an agent for the B rit-
ish East I ndia Company, arrived in 1786, the island was alr eady on the maps of E uro-
pean, I ndian, and Chinese traders. Light landed on the nor theast par t of the island,
where he began a settlement after an agr eement with the sultan of K edah, on the main-
land. He called the town
Georgetown
, after George III. One story claims that to
gain the help of the locals for clearing the site, he shot a cannonload of coins into the
jungle.
