[Recap] Penang Island Malaysia Virtual Tour Meet-up

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It was another exciting opportunity to share another wonderful place in Malaysia, which is Penang Island to close to 70 total participants who joined at different times throughout the 1+ hour virtual tour on Street View and Google Maps. It’s an important effort to promote interest in tourism to visit Malaysia to help with a quick recovery of economy, and it was an incredible opportunity to spend a wonderful visit with so many wonderful friends from many parts of the world.

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This virtual tour, we had traveled over 110km and visited over 30 important locations in Penang Island which is a Unesco Heritage Site since 2008. And thanks to the incredible amount of photos, photospheres and information contributed by Local Guides like ourselves, we could visit and tour inside and outside of temples, top of hill stations, visit the beach, museums and drool at delicious food pictures, directly from the comfort of our own homes.

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Our Penang Virtual Tour RSVP Link

https://maps.google.com/localguides/meetup/penang-malaysia-virtual-tour

Penang Virtual Tour Shared List
https://goo.gl/maps/ebhk5PH9JNpsqDze8

Penang Virtual Tour Route
http://tiny.cc/PenangVirtualTour

The places we visited today included.

  1. Butterworth Ferry Station
  2. Georgetown Ferry Terminal
  3. Penang Bridge
  4. Penang International Airport
  5. Georgetown
  6. Penang Hill
  7. Penang Lower Hill
    8 ) Kek Lok Si Temple & Air Hitam
  8. Penang Botanic Garden
  9. Arulmigu Bala thandayutha pani Waterfall Hill temple
  10. Penang Floating Mosque
  11. Batu Feringghi Beach
  12. Penang National park
  13. Tropical Fruit Farm
  14. Komtar Building
  15. Fort Cornwallis
  16. St George Anglican Church
  17. Assumption Catholic Church
  18. Kuan Yin Temple
  19. Sri Mahamariamman Temple (Arulmigu temple)
  20. Masjid Kapitan Keling
  21. Khoo Kongsi
  22. Cheah Kongsi
  23. Penang Street Art (Boy on Bicycle)
  24. Penang Street Art (Boy on Motorcycle)
  25. Georgetown Old Town Chinatown
  26. Little India Penang
  27. Chowrasta Market
  28. Hameediya Restaurant 1907
  29. Penang Famous Teochew Cendul

Walk with us on this journey by watching our Virtual Tour video (pre and post socializing session not recorded, only the virtual tour)

We hope other Local Guides in other countries can also host virtual tours like this, so all of us can participate and visit all countries virtually. If anyone needs help setting up and making this work, feel free to contact me via private message.

Thanks for joining us everyone. Comments and photos of your previous visit to Penang most welcomed below.

And everyone else who like to upload your screenshots, here is the shared album https://photos.app.goo.gl/u1TXBBotTbkSRHwK9

#LocaGuides #MalaysiaLocalGuides #GoogleMaps #StreetView #Malaysia #VirtualTour #Penang #PulauPinang

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Please feel free to visit the recap post of our previous Virtual tour of Kuala Lumpur.

And also the recorded tour here.

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Thanks for such a wondeeful recap of the vitual penag malaysia tour

This was my second meet up with you of virtual tour which included aerial view sky walk 360 pic n view was awesome

How about malasiya now is it open?

Regards

Anil

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@StephenAbraham it is incredible tour I ever had since the pandemic come. I really want to go there and try some lical cullinary. I just hear my relatives story but yesterday I saw the places they talk about. Thank you, Stephen and will wait for Melaka.

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Thanks a lot, dear @StephenAbraham ,

:pray:

Its really interesting…
I could see half of the video, now - rest I will see in the evening.

Your style of delivery is excellent - very pleasing to listen.
Really admire your well-planned preparation -

You might have invested man-days for this wonderful presentation.

All frames are valuable, with excellent comments; just few sample shots, which struck me.

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Sorry, I really missed you, due to internet problem.
Regards to all attendees and the readers.

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Thank you for sharing this recap post @StephenAbraham

It was really awesome virtual tour and I enjoyed lots of.

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It was awesome meetup.

:bangladesh: :bangladesh: :bangladesh:

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Hallo @StephenAbraham

Terima kasih akhirnya saya bisa ikut Malaysia Tour bersama dengan teman teman lainnya, walau saya harus off dan join kembali karena kesibukan :blush:

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I missed this one @StephenAbraham it was 4 am my time. I appreciate the recap :+1:

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@Erna_LaBeau No worries at all, the tour session portion was recorded and was appended at the end of the recap post. If you are free and keen, you can watch it. :slightly_smiling_face:

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Hi @StephenAbraham ,

Thanks for sharing such a detailed recap of this interesting initiative! I am very happy to see so many Local Guides attending the meet-up, a big community committed in staying close to each other, well done! :slightly_smiling_face: The virtual tour is amazing indeed, one day I hope I’ll be able to visit your beautiful country.

For anyone else interested in organizing similar events, I suggest these useful Tips for hosting virtual meet-ups. :tada:

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Hi @StephenAbraham , thank you for this virtual tour to Penang. I really enjoy it, as if I was there. I really want to go there. If you had another virtual tour in Malay, please kindly tell me? Is there a plan to go to Genting, or am I skip it?