George Town World Heritage Site

THE World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City added George Town to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on the morning of 7 July 2008. George Town's built heritage comprises architectural traditions adapted to local conditions from both East and West. Its historic core has the largest concentration of pre-World War II architecture in Southeast Asia.

Over the last 222 years, a unique way of life based upon East-West exchanges has developed here. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the city with a specific multicultural heritage. We provide here information on various attractions in the George Town World Heritage Site (WHS), drawing a lot on information already published on the Internet. The WHS is divided into four sections:



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Chinese New Year Street Parade at Batu Ferringhi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVZ1USFkLSQ

Street parade at Batu Ferringhi Road, Penang, Malaysia. There were Kompang, lion dance, dragon dance, drum troop, brass band performances from hotels, local schools and associations. This is part of the Chinese New Year celebration.

Batu Ferringhi is a small sleepy town at Noerthern part of Penang Island. It has 2 km of sandy beach. Along this beach there are 4-star and 5-star hotels. There are less expensive accomodation like budget hotels and home stay but these accomodations normally is a short walking distant from the beach. Like Phukket, Batu Ferrighi Beach has fully recovered from 2004 tsunami