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Accommodation🏡 - Hillside Retreat

The oldest colonial hill station and was expanded by the British during the 18th century. Hillside Retreat is the century-old bungalow. The surrounding is the mystery of the 130 million-year-old rainforest. Jot it down and come discover the wonders of it one day!

Here are the details of the Hillside Retreat:

- 4 deluxe boutique & 4 bunkers
- 14 camping tents obtainable ( 3 to 4 pax per tent)
- Capacity: 1 to 4 people
Price range: RM50 to RM250 per night

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Accommodation🏠 - Bellevue Hotel

It stands out as the only hotel at Penang Hill which is also the bungalow-style. Bellevue hotel has a sum of 12 rooms The visitors who stay there get to enjoy the extensive sky views of George town city during dusk and dawn.

Here are the details of the Bellevue hotel:

- 12 units of limited Single, Twin and Three bedded family rooms
- Capacity: 1 to 3 people
- Price range: RM320 to RM470 per night

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Night views 🌙

Here are some charming night view photos from the top at Penang Hill, how beautiful the George town city at night, truly takes your breath away!

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Nature & Wildlife🐵 - Fauna

Nocturnals are the most common bird types that you'll be definitely seeing at Penang Hill. Which also include flying lemurs, civets, bats and flying civets.

The Dusky Leaf Monkey, you'll only spot it when you're lucky enough during your visit to Penang Hill! 😍 Not only this, some other rare animals, Greater Racked-Tailed Drongo and Black Giant Squirrel will be spotted as well! Easily be seen especially during mid-mornings and late-afternoons~

Penang Hill is full of bird fauna. It was recorded that there are over 100 types of species can be found here with ranging to normally seen to rare species.

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Nature & Wildlife🌺 - Flora

Most of the Malaysian plant species are at Penang Hill. Before that, there were botanists came to the hill and collected plants for herbaria. You can even find the tree fern, which are usually high altitudes here. Some of the endangered species such as parasitic plant, also known as the Exorhopalia ruficeps, which grow in the shadowy and moist environment.

The forest that you'll find at Penang Hill is the most common forest, known as the hill dipterocarp forest.

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Attraction Place🛕 - Sri Aruloli Thirumurugan

The oldest Hindu Temple within Penang Hill, which is the Gun Hill. It was built by Indian sepoys and the chair transporters during the 1800's as a small temple of the Hindu deity Murugan.

There's a style known as the Dravidian style which is how this temple was built. It focuses on four main parts, called the Vimana (temple with tower), a porch, gate towers and chawadis. For hygiene purpose, normally there'll be water tank during worships.

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Attraction Place🕌 - Penang Hill Mosque

It stands out as the only mosque at Penang Hill, with another name as Masjid Bukit Bendera. The working muslims were used to live there. It is located just few distance away from the Hindu Temple. The stalls workers and helpers of government are the main users of the mosque.

It's uniqueness are the Islamic architecture done to the premises and the slender tower and the cupola.

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Attraction Place🌇 - Sunset Walk

If you're a huge fan of watching sunset, then you must not miss the charming view from the Tree Top Walk! With the rays of golden sunlight shining down onto the rainforest. I believe it definitely gives you a wonderful evening!

After that, with the guide of Night Walk by lantern lights, you can even see few of the exotic animals such as Flying Lemur, Penang Gecko and many more.

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Attraction Place🍀 - The Habitat

For those who like the beauty of nature, here's another place you must go to when you're at Penang Hill! The Habitat gives a 1.6 kilometers long walk for everyone to have a tour around the rainforest at their footstep.

Throughout the way, you'll also find some of the endearing gardens. For example, Fragrant Garden and Palm Grove. There're signboards beside as you walk along to know about the types of flowers.

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Attraction Place🌳 - Tree Top Walk

Another name for it is called, Curtis Crest. It is a platform that is best known for it's 360 degree viewing. When you're walking on top of this, you'll see an impressive Island view.

And if you're lucky, during clear days, you can even see Langkawi far away!

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Attraction Place🌁 - Canopy Walk

The length of it is around 230 meters and the height is 40 meters upon the ground. Walking on it feels like you're walking through the rainforest and believe me, this is another level of experience! On this walkway, not only you can enjoy the stunning overview of the forest but also you can get to adore the various layers of it from it's ground floor to the beginning of this canopy.

The bridge is suspended of sleek concrete and metal wire-made. This is also the main walking stream, which passed top of deep vale filled with top trees and old ferns. You can even feel your surrounding around them.

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How to get up there? - The Iconic Funicular Railway 😍

For the first timers, you must be wondering how to reach the summit right? You'll find the answer when you click in the picture of the railway! 😆

The train starts it's operation at 6:30 a.m. and the journey to the summit takes approximately 5 to 10 minutes. It'll be very crowded and long lines queueing up especially during holiday seasons and weekends. To avoid crowds and long queue, I suggest you to come early. Tickets for fast lane are also available there for people who want to skip the queueing lanes.

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History 👀

Now, take some times to have a read on the brief history of Penang Hill. In Southeast Asia, the oldest British hill station was at Penang Hill in the late 1700's. There were also 52 bungalows that were more than 100 years old located at Penang Hill. Which the oldest was being built in 1789! The Penang Hill Railway funicular train service, which is the principal transportation, started the functioning back in 2011 until today. But the first ever train service was introduced in 1923.

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A ride up to beat the summer heat! 💥

Penang, a small island which is well known for it's local delicacies and of course the exhilarating attractions. You must've heard about Penang Hill - One of the most popular attractions in Penang Island. It is located just 6km away from it's capital city, Georgetown. Not gonna lie, it is definitely worth visiting when you have a chance to get there!

There are a wide range of hills that made up what is called as Penang Hill today. Most of them are even taller than 700 meters to 800 meters, wow! The average temperature up there can range from 20 degree celsius to 27 degree celsius, you will literally feel cool and refreshing in this stunning nature.

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George Town
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