Pesta Pulau Pinang, Hangzhou Acrobatic Troupe

Date: 9th to 13th December 2010
Location: Pesta, Sungai Nibong
Time: 6pm to 11.30pm
Admission: RM3 per adult and RM1 per child


This year, Pesta Pulau Pinang is proud to announce that an acrobatic troupe from Hangzhou will be performing 5 nights at Pesta site, Sungai Nibong, Penang.


Source & Photo Credit

All-Star National Chingay Competition

Date: 18th Dec 2010
Venue: City Hall, Esplanade
Time: 7pm to 11pm
Entrance: FREE admission

This year, look forward to see 9 teams Chingay star contestants from Sarawak, Perak, 2 teams from Kedah, and 5 teams from Penang showing off their creativity, flexibility and superb skills with stunts in balancing the towering flag poles on their fingers, foreheads, shoulders and teeth.

The teams will be given a time duration of 8-minutes to perform for the crowd and judges. The participating teams will be judged based on their discipline, their uniform, team spirit, skill stunts and overall performance. The results were given on score cards by each judge and were then tabulated for an average result which determined the results of each team.

Source & Photo Credit : Penang Tourism

Penang Pesta Dragon Boat Race, Teluk Bahang Dam ( 11th & 12th Dec 2010)

Date: 11th & 12th Dec 2010
Venue: Teluk Bahang Dam
Time: 9am to 6pm
Entrance: FREE admission
This holiday season promises to be an action packed one, and an action packed one it will be.


The Penang Pesta Open Dragon Boat Race, highlights the pounding of the drums, one at each boat, spurs the rowers as the 28 teams strive to compete each other for a race that is expected to be neck to neck until the very end.


Come witness as the teams from Russia, Brunai, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Perak, Melaka, PDRM Bukit Aman, Navy and Penang teams like Pacific West, Penang Forward, Anak Malaysia Batu Uban Dragon Boat Team, Kelab Pendayung Taman Perbandaran and many more taking on the challenge to compete each other at the Teluk Bahang Dam, Penang.


Source : Tourism Penang

Penang Pesta Dragon Boat Race,
Teluk Bahang Dam ( 11th & 12th Dec 2010)