Heritage Festival

Trip Start Feb 18, 2010

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Flag of Malaysia Georgetown, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Shadow Puppet Craftsman

Because Georgetown is a listed UNESCO World Heritage City, they have an annual festival where the "streets come alive". Local merchants, artisans, hawkers, and dancers come out to showcase their specialties that make this diverse city truly special. We watched them flip roti dough, pour teh tarik, make batiks, do high pole lion dancing, and many other things. It was a really fun day/night getting to know our new favorite city a little better.

VIDEO: High Pole Lion Dance 2

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Celebrating Heritage	Stretching the tea for teh tarik	Flipping the Roti Dough	Local Spices
Pepper	Cinnamon	Local Spices	Local Spices
Local Spices	Local Craftsman	Handmade Wooden Tongs	Making shadow puppets from goatskin
Trying my hand at needlepoint	Needlepoint craftswoman	Bead holder	Layouts for traditional beaded Nyonya shoes
Indian dancers	Chinese girl performer Comments!	Indian dance troupe	Man and baby checking out the festivites
Old Volvo and Mini Comments!	Chinese Ancestry Temple	Chinese Temple	D Learning to Batik Comments!
Applying the Wax	I've attracted a crowd Comments!	Very hot wax used for drawing on fabric for Batik	D and Fadzil, the Batik master Comments!
Painting on the fabric	Photo shoot Comments!	Nutmeg	Chinese Temple
D's First Batik Comments!	Compulsion on Growing the Beard? Comments!	Noodle Making	Cooking Show
Chinese Temple Roof	Cheah Si Sek Tek Tong Temple Comments!	Cheah Si Sek Tek Tong Temple Doors	Adorable little girl inside temple
Cheah Si Sek Tek Tong Temple	Cheah Si Sek Tek Tong Temple	Cheah Si Sek Tek Tong Temple	Bollywood Dancing Comments!
High Pole Lion Dance	High Pole Lion Dance	High Pole Lion Dance Comments!	High Pole Lion Dance
High Pole Lion Dance	Lion Guardian	Old Lady inside Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple	Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple
Weeping Willow at Hock Teik Cheng Sin Temple	Intricate Shadow Puppets	Very large local Mosque	VIDEO: Bollywood Dancing Comments!
VIDEO: High Pole Lion Dance	Chinese Theater	Chinese Theater