Coming back to Penang Island late at night, one is met by an incredibly picturesque scene of Penang Harbour...
As one crusies along the Penang bridge...on your right towards the north, one can see the harbour lights romantically flickering from Prai Port to the North Butterworth Container Terminal and with the sea reflecting these lights back...it gives a festive atmosphere to the place... the reflections along the shoreline leads north towards the sands along the Mata Kucing beaches ...
And on the Georgetown side...you can see the once majestic Komtar...with its 48th floor restaurant lights on, the most iconic of Penang's structure..beaming across a wave of welcome...and the sodium lights of the Jelutong Expressway beckoning you back home....
Towards to south, you see nothing at first, almost pitch black except for the lights directly across the bridge, that comes from the Marine Police Base.....but as you get nearer to Penang Island suddenly, the southern lights break out.....revealing the gem of Penang's drive towards industrialisation...the lights of Bayan Lepas.....Yes the bright lights along Queensbay Mall and Gold Coast greets you....although at first blocked by the ex-penal island Jerejak...the lights of the south will suddenly beam on you as you drive past Jerejak island...
A harbour cruise on stop of a sailing ship....will be a fine way to dine and charm your friends or have a romantic interlude...
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Hi,
Nice write up.
Do you know the phone number to contact them? I am planning to take my wife along. Is there any entertrainment on board?
I did read about a company that offers Penang Harbour cruise...but i don't know whether they still exist... but you can get a "simulated" cruise driving across the Pg Bridge around mid-nite before they started adding the 3rd lane..
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