In honor of Penang finally being listed as a UNESCO Heritage Site yesterday (July 7/08), I present this photo journal full of typical heritage buildings, especially Chinese shophouses, in Georgetown's Chinatown. (Shophouses have the business on the lower level & the living quarters on the upper level.) Carnavon Street runs east>west between Chulia Street & Jalan Lim Chwee Leong (behind Komtar). At Chilia Street, it becomes Jalan Masjid Kapitan Keling. The other streets & lanes in this journal branch off a block or ... (more)