Georgetown

[Thursday Oct 11th]
Today we ventured up to Georgetown. We started near Fort Cornwallis. History buffs may recognize that name from a different country that also has 13 stripes for 13 states... Anyway we saw the famous Penang Clock Tower (dedicated to Queen Elizabeth) and the goofy 'Egg' fountain.

Our handy-dandy Lonely Planet had a couple of Antique Shoppes listed so we went on a tour to go find them. Our hunt took us through the heart of Little India. What an experience that was! Loud Indian music playing throughout the area, tons of cars zooming through the streets, and us strolling down the road in absence of sidewalks. It was fun checking out the shops. In one Terry knocked over a large concrete statue right on top a ornate wooden statue! Yikes, we thought we had a newly acquired piece! Fortunately only minor damage was done and the shop let us go.

We found our antique shops, very much like the ones back home. One guy showed me a little small container. He didn't speak English. I asked him what it was as he made some hand gesture as if he opened the container, put its contents on his extended index finger, raised the finger to his nose and sniffed... My best guess, and old Opium container... Needless to say, we didn't purchase it ;)

We continued on our walk and stopped at a Indian Hawker and just had some Cokes and poori, mmm, Poori.

Near the end our our tour we walked past some of the government buildings. They are old colonial buildings and look pretty impressive at dusk.

Around the corner we saw a Bas Sekolah, Bas meaning Bus, Sekolah mean school. I've been meaning to get a picture of one of these for a while, so here it is!