Penang Botanic Gardens (solo trip)

This is a large botanic gardens that has been around for decades in Penang. It's very popular with the locals and tourists. It's next to Penang Hill, another popular place. When we visited, we noted construction of cable car system for Penang Hill going on. I believe project is going to take a number of years. In the meantime traffic restrictions are in place, which means you can't get to the c...

Really nice botanical gardens. Well maintained. Greenhouses are open Tuesdays and Thursdays Monkeys hang out at the lower level by the entrance and also near top. Nice walking trails

Absolutely loved it here. A great place to spend a couple of hours walking and admiring the amazing scenery. There's a massive variety of interesting plants and trees. We saw asian water monitor lizards, dusky leaf monkeys, long tailed macaques, olive ridley turtles, plantain squirrels and lots of interesting birds. We explored every different path and crossed every bridge. As others have said, ta...

This place is very calming and stress free environment.. Is very close to mother nature and suitable for kids too.. Recommend place for morning joggers.. The only downside is we have to walk all the way in because there's closure road due to construction but overall is a nice place..

Really beautiful gardens to walk around and search for wildlife. Don’t expect banks of flowers as there are very few, but lots of amazing forest trees and some narrow paths winding through the trees and following water ways. Great to spend 2 or so hours enjoying the stunning scenery. Please don’t feed the monkeys and if photographing the them do not get too close to younger ones as their elders ma...