  Sungai Petani
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| Page Views: 4,180 Last Visit to Sungai Petani: March, 2003 | Sungei Petani - literally means Farmers' River by Audrey118 - last update: May 2, 2003 |
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We took a flight to Penang, hired a car and head off to Sungei Petani where my husband's family now lives.
Sungei Petani is about 65 km from Penang Bayan Lepas airport; you have to cross the beautiful Penang Bridge to get back to mainland of the peninsular, and in a good day it should take about 30 minutes to reach.
There is however nothing very 'touristy' that would attract nonlocals to come by...even Malaysians would not even be bothered...but recently more interest is seen with the Lembah Bujang musuem which however pales to Thailand Ayutthaya ruins!...look out at my Kampung Bujang VT pages for pictures...
In Sungei Petani town - you will see remnants of British influence in the architecture; the clock tower, the bank buidling etc.
Other than that while we were driving to even smaller towns, the roads we were driving on cuts across lots of estates, plantations, which were once earth road, and were estates roads, build by the British to serve their estates routines. |
| colourful paper and food offering |
|  | Tomb Cleaning - Annual Ritual It is an annual affair to visit up north for us...usually at this time of the year. The westerners would call our trip as All Souls Day, but Chinese mainly calls it tomb cleaning day...Cheng Meng. |
| Paper offerings to the deceased |
| | And more offering - all to be burnts - here there are paper clothing, shoes, lots of ingots and money etc |
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| In A Nutshell: | "Not sure if I would go otherwise!!! Nothing attracts me" |
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powerlinkers Fri Jun 17, 2005 00:43 UTC
the location of the hotel is quite strategic-It takes just 3-5 minutes to reach a Tesco hypermarket . If you want great food choice from this hotel, just forget about it if you are a vegan. the staffs are friendly and room rating: 3 star | bkoon Sun Apr 10, 2005 02:20 UTC
Nice write-up on SP. | babar_1 Fri Jun 4, 2004 09:27 UTC
Nice little page | deecat Fri Apr 30, 2004 03:08 UTC
Even though you downplayed the importance, I found your Sungai Petani pages fascinating with rituals, architecture, and nature. Thanks. |
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