Reverse Genting Trail
Reverse Genting Trail
The place
Reverse Genting Trail (hiking trail) on Penang Island, George Town/Bayan Lepas area (Southern Penang, Malaysia), at 20 m elevation, Penang Hill foothills. New Malaysia cluster appeared in batch 360. COUNTRY ANOMALY: Malaysia missing from the country database. Small shelter/rest stop on the Reverse Genting Trail (popular weekend trekking route for George Town/Penang Hill hikers, Bukit Bendera 833 m, Penang Hill Railway 1923, the first funicular in Southeast Asia), a tropical rainforest zone + Penang UNESCO 2008 George Town/Kuala Lumpur, historic Straits Settlements, Sino-British trading colony 1786, Francis Light, British EIC + Peranakan heritage (Baba-Nyonya, Chinese-Malay intermarriage, 400 years, Straits Chinese Melaka/Penang/Singapore, distinctive cuisine and culture) + Malaysia 30 M, 60% Malays bumiputra "sons of the soil" affirmative-action policy 1970 + 30% Chinese + 7% Indian Tamils, migration under British rule in the 19th century for rubber and tin plantations).
The setting
Penang George Town/Bayan Lepas S Penang Malaysia 20 m Penang Hill foothills, new cluster batch 360, shelter/rest stop Reverse Genting Trail weekend trekking Bukit Bendera 833 m Penang Hill Railway 1923 1st funicular in SE Asia, tropical rainforest + Penang UNESCO 2008 George Town KL Straits Settlements Sino-British 1786 Light EIC + Peranakan Baba-Nyonya 400 years Straits Chinese Melaka/Penang/Singapore distinctive cuisine + Malaysia 30 M 60% Malays bumiputra sons of the soil 1970 affirmative action + 30% Chinese + 7% Indian Tamils British 19th c. rubber/tin plantations, ANOMALY Malaysia missing.
