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Penang Hills and Trails - Hikes by Starting Point, Part 1

Click here for the Penang Hills and Trails index.
Click here for Penang Hills and Trails 2024 - Paradise Lost? (updated 27th November 2024)
Click here for a guide to Penang's Peaks (16th March 2020)
Click here for the Top Ten Walks.
Click here for a list of further Selected Walks.
Click here for information on Rain Gauges, Catchment
Areas and Fire Hydrants (updated 1st March 2025).
Click here for the introduction.
Click here for Penang's Rubber Heritage (updated 28th February 2025).


Each walk has instructions on how to get to the starting point and almost all have a sketch map to show its route. The other parts of this list are given below:


North Coast, Teluk Bahang to the Tropical Fruit Farm


(A) Botanical Gardens 

(B) Tanjung Bunga 

These walks start in the vicinity of the PBA installation at the north west corner of the area.

(C) Batu Ferringhi 

The starting point is best reached from the Chin Farm track opposite the Bayview Beach Hotel.

The starting point is best reached from the Golden Sands Hotel traffic light

The starting point is from Jalan Pantai Batu, the road up from Shamrock Bay

(D - F) Teluk Bahang 

(G) Tropical Fruit Farm (east / north side destinations) 

The first walk starts some 200 metres north of the summit of the round-the-island road, the other two about 400 metres south of it. 


Introduction to these lists.

Part 2 Tropical Fruit Farm - Balik Pulau

Part 3 Balik Pulau Area

Part 4 Pondok Upeh and Sungai Ara Hills

Part 5 Pulau Betong, Gertak Sanggul, Teluk Kumbar and Bayan Lepas

Part 6 Relau - Air Itam


Click here for the Penang Hills and Trails index.
Click here for Penang Hills and Trails 2024 - Paradise Lost? (updated 27th November 2024)
Click here for a guide to Penang's Peaks (16th March 2020)
Click here for the Top Ten Walks.
Click here for a list of further Selected Walks.
Click here for information on Rain Gauges, Catchment
Areas and Fire Hydrants (updated 1st March 2025).
Click here for the introduction.
Click here for Penang's Rubber Heritage (updated 28th February 2025).


I strongly recommend using buses to get to the starting points and back from the end of these walks.
I have written a short guide to Penang's Buses (updated 6th October 2022) for hikers although directions are included in individual hikes.


Rob and Yuehong Dickinson

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