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Clan Jetties
Seven wooden stilt villages on Weld Quay, each built and lived in by members of a single Chinese clan.
- Editor's score
- 4.4
- Visit
- 1 h
- Price
- Free
About
The Clan Jetties are a waterfront neighbourhood of wooden houses on stilts along Weld Quay. Each of the seven surviving jetties belongs to residents of one Chinese clan: Ong, Lim, Chew, Tan, Lee, Yeoh and a mixed clan. The settlements grew between the 1880s and the 1960s, and nine were built in total. Since George Town became a World Heritage Site in 2008, the jetties have become a heritage attraction.
Best time to go: Visit in the late afternoon for sunset over the water, and keep voices low: these are people's homes.
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