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Cycling In George Town: Tan Kongsi, Sekeping Victoria, Beach Street

Cycling In George Town: Tan Kongsi, Sekeping Victoria, Beach Street – This is a long waited post that I’ve finally got some times to post it up. I’ve taken about 70 photos on this day and I wanted to post them all, so I’ll be dividing this post to 3 post. =D

Cut the crap, a month ago, I was back at home in Penang and went on a cycling in George Town trip with my friends. Cycling is one famous activities in this little city of Penang and more and more people gets their own folding bike and mountain bike. We rented the bicycles at a second hand bicycle shop on Armenian Street for RM10/day, there’s plenty of bike for you to choose, folding, or the big one and I picked a little folding bike with suspension.

Started of around Armenian Street – Carnavon Street without any idea on where should we go, ended up at Tan Kongsi at Beach Street, stopped by a while for photos session.

Yan Chien Chern.
Merritt Lau, the organizer of the day!

This time we get a good look of this Seh Tan Kongsi. It’s a little clan house with super small neighbourhood of colonial shophouses around and that’s it. Nothing much, round the little place for a couple of round then we go to the other destination. We felt like we were unprofessional cycling kids. Haha.

The next destination is the Jetty Asam Laksa under a tree at Gat Lebuh Acheh, too bad that it was not open, but we manage to catch a cup of Ai Yu Bing jelly refreshing desserts. Yums!
Parking our bike at some random space.
The desserts and drinks stall.
Where to now? The Esplanade / Padang Kota Lama, but before reaching there we past by a very cool hotel/guesthouse located on Victoria Street – Sekeping Victoria designed by Landscape Architect Ng Sek San. The guesthouse has a unique rundown design featuring very raw material. You can check out more at the website.
Loving the minimal and raw interior of Sekeping Victoria.

 

Cutting through Victoria Street, we reaches Beach Street, the street with the most British colonial-style building housing bank and financial institution. This is the cool part of Penang where people come here for photo shoot and leisure on Sunday morning where this is a no-car zone during Sunday.

Feels like the UK to you?

Post Malaysia building.

Next post coming very soon! Going to Esplanade, Chew Jetty, Jelutong Nautilus Bay, and back to George Town in the next coming posts.

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Nick is an interior designer and tech enthusiast based in Penang, Malaysia who constantly exploring places, indulges great food, discovering good design and is a shutterbug. Nick usually writes about Penang, happenings, travel, food, design and personal thoughts.

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