After the visit to Penang's Botanic Gardens, it was off to the 65-storey 12-sided geometric block which sits atop a 4-storey podium - Kompleks Tun Abdul Razak or more commonly known to locals as KOMTAR Tower - Penang's tallest building. There, besides shopping, one could take an elevator near Maybank to the top floor to take a view of the city. Incidentally, The World Heritage Committee meeting in Quebec City had on 7 July 2008, added eight new cultural sites from the Straits of Malacca, to Papua New Guinea and San Marino to UNESCO’s World Heritage List and this included Penang, or more specifically, George Town, the city founded in 1786 by Captain Francis Light and named after Britain's King George III. The city has mutlicultural heritages, having influences of both Asia and Europe said to be due to over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West, but for Penang in particular, I suppose it would be more accurate to say that it was due to all those years of colonisation by the British. British used to be the colonial masters in this part of the world and elsewhere too in Asia making it at one time,The Empire where the sun does not set. But, of course the sun will havt to set. And now that it had, that ended one day in Penang!
At the top of Komtar Tower...
...you'll get to have a view of Penang...
At the top of Komtar Tower...
...you'll get to have a view of Penang...
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