Back to Penang for business trip for a week. Today is the IHEP Batch-5 Korean students Day-6 in Penang. After lunch I brought them to Penang botanical gardens for a walk. Despite the humid weather - well it's 2pm when we arrived, they enjoy the walk with beautiful landscape and fresh air. The only complaint probably is they didn't expect they need to hike-up a little when we go round the park. lol. From the Main Gate, we first ride on the tram and go round in the Botanical Gardens. Tram ticket is RM2 per adult. The tram will go round the park via the Lower Circular Route. Basically the park is divide into 2 circular routes:
1. Higher Circular Route :-
Begin from the main gate, head straight until the two-way junction, keep LEFT and hike-up a little on a winding road, you will pass by the hiking route via staircases to Penang Hill, waterfall and reservoir. Keep going until reach a T-junction, keep left and you will pass by Orchidarium and various gardens along the way till you back to the beginning point.
2. Lower Circular Route :-
The garden tram's route - the ground is flat and less slope compare to higher circular route. Begin from the main gate, head straight until the two-way junction, keep RIGHT and head straight all the way and you will pass by the T-junction that connected from Higher Circular Route, Orchidarium and various gardens till you back to beginning point.
After the tram ride, we further walk via the Higher Circular Route for more views! There is a short up-hill part on the winding route however is not that tough as you think. It will make you breathing hard and sweat a little when you walk-up but you will find the view and landscape is rewarding! It is my most favourable landscape site inside Botanical Garden.
Tips: Go clockwise (from the divide point) if you wish to avoid walk up-hill yet don't want to miss all the views along the Higher Circular Route. The up-hill will become down-hill which make the walking more easy. The route for both higher or lower circular is not entirely flat but you probably won't feel it much since it's going up gradually.
Share with you another favourite spot of mine inside the botanical gardens - a hidden Lily Pond inside the lush jungle. Take the paver paths on the left or right hand side of Orchidarium (Rumah Orchid) and walk up a little and you will find this secret garden.
Beautiful isn't it? I love to stop by here for a while to calm my mind and soul however the mosquitoes attack can be somehow disturbing.. especially when we sweat a lot due to exercise lol. Thanks to the students, I able revisit this place where I used to came for exercise sometimes after works. These pictures will preserve my memories of Botanical Gardens forever.
Last but not least, one of the attraction point of Botanical Garden ~ Monkeys! Though I have seen monkeys regularly in the garden, I still wary of them as they can be fierce and often showing their "ready-to-attack" face and action when pass-by. Feeding the monkeys is not allowed so beware of monkeys especially you have food on your hand, they might steal from you.
How to get here:
Take Rapid Bus No.10 to Botanical Garden
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