Cycling In Penang Georgetown, City of Heritage

There is one activity which you should not missed when you visit Penang, Malaysia. This activity is adventurously eco-friendly where you cycle around the city of heritage, Penang's Georgetown in the meanwhile it is also cycling for your health too! We started our cycling adventure late in the afternoon after meeting up each other in an antique reseller's shop who also offered bicycle rentals at the price of only RM10/day. All of us enjoyed our cycling adventure despite the sunny weather.

A group of 5. Nicholas, Charles, Shi Jie, and Chien Chern including me with our gears ready!

We first had our cycling around Armenian Street under the hot and searing sun until we arrived at one destination where there is a stall that serves the awesome yet famous dessert beside the road of Pangkalan Weld known as O-Kio ( 爱玉冰 ). Oh well! It felt so great having something cold in the meantime quenched our thirst before we continued on.

O-Kio, also known as ai yu bing in Mandarin.

As we continued, we headed north towards Penang Esplanade where Fort Cornwallis is located at. I recalled of the delicious Mee Sotong being introduced by my friend where its stall is situated in the food court next to Fort Cornwallis so we gave it a hit since we were already there. The Mee Sotong tastes a little bit spicy but as a whole, it does tastes great because of the sauce.

The plate of Mee Sotong in Penang Esplanade.

What was next after hitting our try on the Mee Sotong? We went into a private carpark where we took our glance of the entire Port of Swettenham. We had a crazy idea of cycling towards the Four Pillars in Sungai Pinang area which the pillars were built just next to the sea. But before that, we cycled into Chew Jetty, another tourism hotspot of Penang. Yes, we cycled in into the village with our bicycles. Inside the village was peacefully beautiful that has its very own unique culture and structures.

The glance of Penang Port Swettenham.

One of the art murals drawn by a talented artist, Ernest Zacharevic has been spotted on a wall in Chew Jetty as we went deeper inside. There were a few luxury boats docked nearby to the village by foreign tourists which is simply amazing for such a rare sighting. We cycled around the Four Pillars in Sungai Pinang area through the Jelutong Expressway's motorcycle lane after we visited the Chew Jetty. The distance starting from the highway towards the Four Pillars were so scary as we were cycling in the motorcycle's express lane, the rev up sounds from the motorbikes deters us from taking our glance back at each other even to the sideways. We all had our dinner in Chulia Street for the Famous Wan Tan Mee and ended our cycling adventure at night. The photo collections of some of the art murals I got for that day as follow: