Aside from having interesting history and amazing food, it turns out that George Town also has some really fantastic street art. Our first morning in George Town while Shan and I were having breakfast, the hostel manager came over to chat with us to see what we were planning to do. When he found out that we didn’t have much of a plan, he grabbed a bunch of pamphlets to help us out. One of them was all about the street art in the city. We flipped through it, but decided to stick to our original plan of just walking around and exploring.
While we were wandering through the streets, we stumbled on the one that was on the cover of the pamphlet. There was an old bicycle bolted to the wall and some children riding on it. It was like finding a hidden treasure in the city.
We didn’t even need to pull the pamphlet out to find more, it seemed that every time we turned the corner we stumbled on to a new piece, even better than the last. My favourites were the welded iron wall caricatures, they all creatively pointed out fun little facts about the area that you were in – like our own little cheeky tour guide of the city.
“Win Win Situation”
“Jimmy Choo”
“One Leg Kicks All”
“Kungfu Girl”
“Kids on Bicycle”
Shan playing some soccer
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