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Private Half-Day George Town History Tour: English-Speaking Guide to Attractions and Cultural Sites
4.5
45 Ratings
George Town
Join this half-day tour and explore George Town well-known attractions with our professional English speaking guide. Learn about the city cultural and history through visits to Clan Jetties, the Pinang Peranakan Mansion, Khoo Kongsi and Buddhist temples. Round-trip transportation from George Town hotels is included.
Join this half-day tour and explore George Town well-known attractions with our professional English speaking guide. Learn about the city cultural and history through visits to Clan Jetties, the Pinang Peranakan Mansion, Khoo Kongsi and Buddhist temples. Round-trip transportation from George Town hotels is included.
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Chew Jetty - Our Tour Guide pick you up from your hotel in George Town area to start your George Town half day tour that takes in main attractions and picturesque sights. You will visit to the Clan Jetties located along the waterfront of George Town. Get a first-hand view of house stilt by the coast of the living heritage of the Chew Clan go about…
- Chew Jetty - Our Tour Guide pick you up from your hotel in George Town area to start your George Town half day tour that takes in main attractions and picturesque sights. You will visit to the Clan Jetties located along the waterfront of George Town. Get a first-hand view of house stilt by the coast of the living heritage of the Chew Clan go about their daily life.
- Pinang Peranakan Mansion - Visit the former house of Chinese Captain, the Pinang Peranakan Mansion and marveled their collections not found elsewhere. This elite house featured many recollection memories when the Chinese immigrants inter-marriage with the locals and created a fusion of east meets locals, hence a new tradition was borne.
- Khoo Kongsi - Take a tour to Khoo Kongsi, one of the grandest temple or clan house of the Khoo family and marvel at the grand architecture, one of the best outside China. Learn about the history, rituals, Fengshui and trivia stuffs found in Khoo Kongsi.
- Reclining Buddha Wat Chaiyamangalaram - We round up the tour with a visit to Pulau Tikus and visit Reclining Buddha Temple. Be amazed with the world 3rd longest Reclining Buddha statue and see the differences between Chinese and Siamese’s dragons in Reclining Buddha temple.
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Dharmikarama Burmese Temple - See the standing Buddha and check out the Guardian of
the World (Panca Rupa) and count how many animal’s part that make up of this guardian. Throw a few coins for luck in Fountain of Life and learn about the journey of Buddha in Burmese temple. - MAM Holidays Malaysia - After finish this tour you will be transferred back to your hotel safely.
What's Included
- Pickup and drop-off within George Town hotel/Cruise ship port
- Round trip transportation by private car
- All taxes and service charges included
- Guided by an experienced English-speaking tour guide
- Pickup and drop-off within George Town hotel/Cruise ship port
- Round trip transportation by private car
- All taxes and service charges included
- Guided by an experienced English-speaking tour guide
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks
- Any Other things not mentioned
- Food and drinks
- Any Other things not mentioned
Location
Chew Jetty
Pengkalan Weld, 59A, Chew Jetty
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.5
(45 Ratings)
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Greatbrownhype
Jun 19, 2024
Highlights of George Town - First off, big thank you to MAM and our guide Muhammad for accepting such a last minute booking!
This was a great tour and Muhammad was an excellent guide! Pick up was prompt, and our private car for the tour was spotless and comfortable.
Muhammad is everything you expect in an excellent guide. He gave us great background information on the region and sites without it turning into a lecture, all mixed in with a little humor. At each stop he let us enjoy things at our own pace. We never felt rushed and he struck the perfect balance of guiding us around and letting us explore on our own.
We got a great overview of the city, excellent photo ops, and a little tourist shopping. 100% would recommend him to anyone looking to book a tour.
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Yulita_s
May 21, 2024
A day with An Amazing tour guide - I had visited penang many times for medical purposes and this time decided to have a prof to guide me see penang deeply.
I went tour with my daughter and our guide mr muhammad was incredible. It was amazing day and I learned something new about penang not only the destination for medical.
Muhammad was so knowledgeable and gave us lots of interesting facts. He also brought us nasi lemak for our breakfast...appreciated.
I would definitely recommend this tour and of course mr muhammad as your tour guide.
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Dorice_r
Apr 30, 2024
A great guide passionate about her city! - Cheam is a great ambassador for your city. High energy, friendly and knowledgeable wrapped into one tour guide. I felt like she was a friend showing me her city. Loved every minute!
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Craig_a
Apr 22, 2024
Awesome tour! - Md. Firdauz is an excellent tour guide. He provides you insight and history of buildings, roads, and places along your journey. He's very knowledgeable of Penang and it's history! He also brought us to many other places not on our itinerary. Definitely an excellent tour and highly recommend this tour with Md.
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986jasonz
Mar 3, 2024
Fantastic Experience!!! - Muhammad was an excellent guide! He was early to pick us up at our hotel, provided a fantastic tour with a thorough history of Penang and the various sites. I would highly recommend this tour!!!
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Jeanmichelw
Feb 1, 2024
Extremely helpful and informative trip - After spending a lifetime as a school teacher and 7 years now as a tour guide, Cheam was so informed about Penang’s past and current trends it was like having an interactive Penang for Google. My parents and I asked a flurry of questions about the Malay, Chinese, Baba-Nonya, Peranakan, and Indian communities, she not only answered them intuitively, but with compassion for all sides and with a touch of humour. We spent more than the allotted time and she even took us to her favourite Laksa place, which we later found out was awarded a Michelin bib for two years running. Without a doubt one of the best tour experiences we’ve had. Not to be missed.
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Marianna_t
Jan 30, 2024
Interesting. Covered a lot! - Muhammad (the tour guide) was friendly, informative and also did a few extra stops on the tour so I could take photos of street art. It was a great afternoon.
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Leaht831
Aug 10, 2024
Georgetown by private car - We had a great half day tour with Mohammad. It was the perfect way to see GeorgeTown (in the heat!) traveling with elderly parents and a young child as we were picked up / dropped off at our hotel and driven around to key sites without too much walking. Mohammad provided the right level of commentary for us too. The car was clean and Mohammmad very cheerful which made for a nice morning out.
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Low_k
Apr 2, 2024
An awesome day learning about Georgetown 😁 - We had a great half day tour with tour guide Ash. He picked us up from our hotel in a nice clean comfortable air con car. As it was tomb sweeping day - we went to visit the temples first to avoid the crowd. Then we visited the Chew jetty, Khoo khongsi n Peranakan Museum. Ash was knowledgeable and had the balance of history info and trivia. He even took us to a local kopi tiam to have fried kway teow near our hotel which was excellent as we had some spare time. Overall a very good private tour .. thank you !
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Markibentley7
Mar 17, 2024
Unfriendly, not wheel chair friendly, wanted to finish the tour after only 2 hours. -
This trip was miss sold as a wheel chair accessible tour, that the driver was unfriendly and unhelpful and did not want to put my scooter in his car, also that he become hostile when i asked to be taken to other places of interest as the trip had only been for 2 hours at that point.
The driver was very rude insisting that he needed to wash the tyres of my scooter after i spent some time in the market area. We didnt wash the soles of our feet?
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