Year 1 Semester 2 Study Trip to Penang

We went to Penang, Malaysia for an architectural study trip during Year 2 Semester 2, from 31/12/2022 to 3/12/2022.

Day 1

On the first day, we went to the Penang Hill and Kek Lok Si before we checked-in to our hotel.

We managed to "climb" up to the peak of Penang Hill, which is a bridge called "The Habitat". One of my classmates were scared to death with her Acrophobia, but and we persuaded her and take her along to see the breathtaking view on the top of Penang.

The Habitat, Penang Hill.

As we were going to the hotel for check-in, we stopped by the Kek Lok Si temple, which is the largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia to take some photographs, but the weather was cloudy and it rained and it was getting late, so we didn't get to visit the temple inside.

Kek Lok Si, Air Itam, Penang.

Day 2

We started our second day of the trip with our assignment that required us to find street arts and have ourselves photographs with them around Georgetown. After that, we went to visit the Khoo Kongsi clan and Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion (known as the Blue Mansion).

Georgetown, Penang.

The Khoo Kongsi clan is the largest Hokkien clanhouse in Malaysia with elaborate and highly ornamented architecture, a mark of the dominant presence of the Chinese in Penang, Malaysia. The famous Khoo Kongsi is the grandest clan temple in the country.

Khoo Kongsi clan, Penang.

The Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion is a government gazetted heritage building located on Leith Street in George Town, Penang, Malaysia. The mansion's external decorations and indigo-blue outer walls make it a very distinctive building, and it is sometimes referred to as The Blue Mansion.

Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion, Penang.

Day 3

On Day 3, we took a break and went to Penang Escape water park for refreshment.

Escape Penang.

Day 4

On the last day of our restless trip, we took it easy and chill on our way back to campus. We went to a heritage Buddhist temple called Wat Chaiyamangalaram to observe about religious architecture and stopped by in Ipoh for a few hours before we our study trip ends.

Wat Chaiyamangalaram, better known as the Reclining Buddha Temple is a Thai Buddhist temple.  The temple was built in 1845 by a Thai monk on a piece of land donated by Queen Victoria.  The temple was visited by King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit in 1962.

Wat Chaiyamangalaram, Georgetown, Penang.

The Town Hall, as with the Railway Station and the High Court, has been designed in an Edwardian Baroque architectural style which is a departure from the Indo-Saracenic architect A.B Hubback used in his more famous designs such the Old Kuala Lumpur Railway Station, the Jamek Mosque near Merdeka Square and the elaborate and highly under-rated Idris Memorial Mosque (also known as the Ubudiah Mosque) in Kuala Kangsar.

Ipoh Town Hall