9.00 am - 10.30 am : Breakfast at Ferrenghi Coffee Garden
A contemporary dining experience amongst a rustic environment filled with greenery and recycled hard wood. Serving breakfast, lunch, tea and dinner with charcoal toasted bread, burgers, fresh scones and kebabs accompanied with Italian style espresso coffee.
11.00 am - 12.00 pm : Forest Museum & Recreational Park
The 32 hectares Teluk Bahang Forest Park is a popular recreational park among the locals. It showcases an interesting introduction to the Malaysian forest with a well manned forestry museum located within the park. The museum provides details of the forest’s features, history and many varieties of local and exotic flora and fauna while the arboretum presents the interesting pine trees plantation. A network of trails crisscrossed the park providing good hiking trails for nature lovers and foresters alike.
Forestry Museum within the park
The park is located beside the main road skirting Penang Island. Although it is situated almost half way round the island, there are bus and taxi services plying along this route. In the park: There are extensive trails in the park. Most of them are forested trails suitable for adventurous hikers. Trails are well marked. There are 4 forest trails – Monkey Cup Trail, Simpoh Gajah Trail, Charcoal Kiln Trail and Ridge Top Trail. The forest trail can also leads to Bukit Laksamana and Penang Hill. There are bathrooms and toilets facilities within the park.
The Forestry Museum located within the park was opened to the public on 5th May 1983.
Teluk Bahang Forest Park is also known as Teluk Bahang Recreational Park.
Teluk Bahang Forest Park
Several wading pools have been an added facility for picnickers.
Filtered stream water
Teluk Bahang Forest Park provides the local community and town dwellers a suitable recreational park. The only forestry museum in Penang provides valuable educational material for the public on the importance contributions of the forestry sector to the social-economic development of the nation.
Forest trail found in the park.
A new reptile exhibit for exotic lizards in the forest park.
View from Bukit Laksamana overlooking Teluk Bahang Dam and Teluk Bahang Recreational Forest. Background is Penang National Park.
12.30 pm - 2.00 pm : Pantai Keracut & Monkey Beach (Pantai Hoping)
ways to Pantai Keracut |
Pantai Keracut |
Pantai Keracut |
Monkey Beach |
Monkey Beach |
Monkey Beach |
4.00 pm - 6.00 pm : Gurney Plaza
GURNEY PLAZA – Penang’s Premier Lifestyle Shopping Mall. Gurney Plaza is a nine storey shopping complex with two levels of basements comprising nine floors of retail space from basement 1 to the 7th floor and car park spaces at the two basement levels, the 4th to 8th floor and on the rooftop. As Penang’s premier shopping mall, it houses various well-known brands for shopping, dining and entertainment.
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