Your base for this sight is the city of Penang. For useful travel tips about Penang, visit Penang Travel Tips. To read about the tourist attractions in Penang, go through the George Town Travel Guide and Penang Travel Guide. For budget accommodation in Penang, use the Penang Budget Accommodation Map to find suitable places to spend the night.
The main stairway takes us to the three main halls.
The walls of the front corridor are covered with intricate carvings.
An ornamental windows is adorned with carvings depicting Chinese legends.
Another view of the front corridor to the main halls, with its intricately carved wall reliefs and columns.
The Hall of the Ancestors with the altar where ancestors tablets, called Sin Choo Pai, are placed. On the walls are plaques of Khoo clansmen who have distinguished themselves in academic excellence or public service.
Another view of the wall plaques in the Hall of the Ancestors.
The Sin Choo Pai or ancestral tablets are arranged in rows according to their generation.
Every inch of the clan temple is richly ornamented, even the roof, with its carvings and lanterns.
View of the columns that hold up the roof of the clan temple.
In the Central Hall of Khoo Kongsi, Cheng Soon Keong, is the Ong Soon Tai Sai altar, dedicated to the clan's patron saints, Ong Soon (The Nobel), and Tai Sai (The Great Duke).
The walls of the Central Hall are adorned with ink frescoes depicting the 36 heavenly bodyguards riding fantastic beasts.
The latticework on the timber panels in the Central Hall is exquisitely intricate.
Lanterns and worship paraphernalia hangs from the ceiling.
The latticework of the Central Hall panels.
Members of AsiaExplorers join me in the visit to Leong San Tong Khoo Kongsi. The door plaque reads Leong San Tong, right to left.
Finding Accommodation in Penang
If you're going to Penang, you now have the option of finding accommodation in a hotel, or look for one in hostels and guesthouses. To book a room in a star-rated hotel, use the Penang Hotel Guide for Budget Travelers. To find accommodation in a Hostel or Guesthouse, use the Penang Guide to Hostels and Guesthouses. Each link provides detailed listing of the type of accommodation you can expect in Penang. Be aware that you get what you pay for. If you need a certain degree of comfort, then a star-rated hotel may be an ideal option for you. On the other hand, if you are able to forego a bit of creature comfort, then hostels and guesthouses are clean, safe, and incredibly good value for money. For accommodation in other destinations, visit Hotel Guide for Budget Travelers or Hostels & Guesthouses Accommodation Guide.
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