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Penang’s cemetery tours spur interest in pioneers, colonial history

 05/05/2026 10 Views
Penang’s cemetery tours spur interest in pioneers, colonial history


The sounds of passing cars and birds chirping broke the morning stillness at Penang’s Northam Road Protestant Cemetery as visitors began filtering in after 8am.

Tour guide Zul Harris arrived in a purple shirt, grey trousers and a black flat cap to greet seven tourists waiting at the gate.

Inside, a narrow laterite path ran through the cemetery beneath old frangipani trees, whose dense canopy cast a muted green light over weathered headstones tilting at uneven angles.

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