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Explore the best things to do in Northeast Penang Island! Uncover top activities and experiences for an unforgettable visit.
Updated Sep 2024
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    "If you visit Penang, make sure you don't miss this. It's truly worth at any cost."
    Northeast Penang Island
    5.7km from downtown
    No.1 of Night Attractions in Northeast Penang Island
    Highlights: Penang Hill is also called Penang Hill. The summit is about 821 meters above sea level. The climate is cool and pleasant, and it is a cool summer resort. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see the whole island, not only Penang, but also the green Malay Peninsula in the distance. When the weather is good, you can take the famous cable car on Penang for a trip up the mountain. The endless blue sea and the lush Malay Peninsula are extremely harmonious in color and beautiful. Only here can you experience the true charm of "Oriental Pearls". After dark, the lights of Penang and the ship are as bright as jewels, which is even more enjoyable and unforgettable.
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  • top_2
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    "As the sun dipped toward the horizon at Pantai Batu Feringghi, the sky transformed into a canvas of vibrant hues—warm oranges, pinks, and purples reflecting off the tranquil waters. I enjoyed the serene beauty of the sunset, feeling the cool breeze against my skin. Afterward, I ventured into the gentle waves, letting the water splash around me and embracing the refreshing, playful experience. The combination of a stunning sunset and the joy of the sea made for a truly memorable evening."
    Batu Ferringhi
    11.3km from downtown
    No.1 of Water Fun Attractions in Northeast Penang Island
    Highlights: Batu Ferringhi Beach is a very beautiful sandy beach in Penang, located in the north of Penang. The beach has clear water and fine sand, and has long been famous in Southeast Asia. The beach resort of Batu Ferringhi is famous for its combination of mountains and seas, including continuous golden beaches, vast seas, and beautiful and quiet mountains. It concentrates more than ten high-end hotels, which can overlook the 3-kilometer sandy beach on the north coast of Penang Island. Batu Ferringhi's beautiful waterfront is an excellent location for a variety of water sports such as: paragliding, water skiing, windsurfing, fishing, snorkeling, and even diving in the nearby islands! There are many seafood restaurants, bars, photo printing shops, currency exchange centers and markets behind the beach road. You can also see a stilted house called "MalayKampong" on the seashore, which preserves the traditional living style of the Malays more than 100 years ago: the house is elevated to keep it cool and dry, and the clean yard is planted with various tropical flowers and trees. Put a basin of water in front for taking off your shoes and washing your feet before going upstairs and entering the house. The indoor windows are clean, neat and comfortable.
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  • top_3
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    "we’ve arrived in penang after another train journey and have strolled around georgetown all evening. you can spotted a lot of street art along the road. i really like it when i visited 10 years ago and it’s a mix of colonial building, vibrant street art, varied food influences is a winner for me"
    George Town
    1.1km from downtown
    Highlights: A few years ago, most tourists came to Penang to find all kinds of food, but now many tourists come here to find those famous murals and iron sculpture cartoons in the historical area, and queuing to take pictures with them has become a It is a must-have item for many tourists to come here. About 5 years ago, Ernest Zacharevic, a Lithuanian artist, came to the century-old street in Penang. At first, it was just an unintentional backpacking trip, but he did not expect it to become his creative base, and even more unexpectedly gave Penang Old Street different from the vitality of the past. His mural is a work of art from MirrorsGeorgetown. In 2012, in order to coincide with Penang's celebration of the 4th anniversary of George Town's entry into the World Cultural Heritage, the Penang Arts Council listed "George Town Mirror" as one of the celebration activities. Officially, because of such a celebration, so many works of life are displayed in front of us. Penang's murals are scattered in the streets and alleys of George Town, and you can see it when you walk around the streets. According to the map, you can connect some scenic spots and murals to design a reasonable play route. If you don’t have enough time, you can also choose to ride a bicycle or take a human-powered tricycle. The cost of renting a bicycle is about 70 yuan a day, and the cost of a tricycle is 40 ringgit an hour. The advantage of the rickshaw is that the drivers are all locals, who are relatively familiar with these murals, and it saves time to play. Tour Guide Whether it is from the Everbright Building, Surname Bridge or Love Lane, it is a good sightseeing route. At present, there are more than 20 murals and 52 iron sculpture cartoons in George Town, which are distributed on the streets of LebuhChulia, LebuhAhQuee, LebuhVictoria and LebuhArmenian. Ernest Zacharevic has 8 murals here. "Photo with the Old Man" on LebuhArmenian Street, this is his first work, the fresco has begun to fade due to the age. There is also a well-known copy of "Sister and Brother Riding Together" on this street. In the picture, an older sister who is not very skilled in driving takes her excited and nervous younger brother on a bicycle and does not know where to go. Many tourists will put out the action of pushing the back seat of the bicycle, or the action of actually riding the bicycle behind them, which is very interesting. In addition, several well-known works are "Broken Heart" by Love Lane, "Kung Fu Girl" by LebuhMuntri, "The Boy Who Chased the Wind" by LebuhAhQuee Street, and "The Resting Tricycle Driver" by PenangRoad Wait. Today, in addition to the original murals, Chinese painter Chen Yukang has created many art works about cats together with the "101 Lost Cats" organization. In addition, Penang also has a "Sign George Town Project", which uses comic-style iron sculpture murals to tell the legends of the old street or the life of the citizens. A total of 52 iron plastic cartoons for the "Sign George Town Project" are the works of SculptureAtWork, a local art group that won the "Sign George Town Project" competition. As long as you walk on the streets of Penang, you will always find many vivid and interesting cartoons, which will add some childishness to the nostalgic Penang.
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    "It is definitely worth going. You can see the panoramic view of Penang. There are not many people so the photo is great. The Rainbow Sky Trail is a short curved glass plank road. You have to bring a shoe cover or bare feet. The scenery is beautiful. The top restaurant is very general, but you can punch in the rainbow cheese bread."
    George Town
    134m from downtown
    No.2 of Night Attractions in Northeast Penang Island
    Highlights: TheRainbowSkywalkandObservatoryDeck is a new location for high-altitude sightseeing in Penang, where you can enjoy a 360-degree panoramic view of Penang.
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    4.3/5
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    "Penang Everbright is a theme entertainment mall with a very good experience. I especially like the Jurassic Experimental Factory, state gallery and rainbow skywalk. There are also a small part of 3D art photo spots in the Zhouli Museum, which makes Penang's history very clear! The scenery on the sky trail is beautiful, you can see the most beautiful sunset! The only trail on the road did not know whether it was Bangladeshi or Indian staff who kept saying "Chinese guys..." felt that they had opinions on the Chinese!"
    George Town
    145m from downtown
    Highlights: Komtar Tower is a landmark building in Penang. It is a 65-storey building rising from the ground. The downstairs is the largest shopping mall in Penang, and the upstairs is the office area. Every bus will pass here to reach Komtar station.
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    "A cultural heritage building, built by Kapitan Cheong Keng Kwee, the head of Hai San Group, with rich Peranakan Cultural Relics to be admired by tourists."
    George Town
    1.5km from downtown
    Highlights: This traditional indigenous Chinese residence is a typical 19th century Baba Nyonya house decorated with Chinese hardwood furniture inlaid with mother-of-pearl and carved with a mix of Chinese, Victorian and Dutch patterns. Since Zheng Chenggong's voyage to the West, a large number of Chinese have arrived in Nanyang and settled down. Chinese men married mixed-race children born to Malay women. The men were called Baba and the women were called Nyonya. At the same time, the fusion of traditional Chinese culture and Malay culture came into being. A new cultural system is Nyonya culture. The Nyonya Museum is the filming location of Yue's family in the TV series "Little Nyonya". It is the ancestral home of a famous local Baba family. The first-generation owner started out selling spices, and the current owner is the fourth-generation Baba. The whole family lives in Kuala Lumpur and took out their ancestral home to build this private museum.
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    "This Jetties very popular and all visit penang will go to take a look how the local fishermen stay and work at penang. Their house also very unique and all above the seawater."
    George Town
    1.2km from downtown
    Highlights: The surname bridge does not refer to a single bridge, but a general term for many bridges. Back then, the Chinese went to Penang to engage in trade and fishing, and lived on the sea, so they built bridges and built houses on them, forming unique small villages. Because people with the same surname live in the same bridge, it is called the surname bridge. The houses of the family are built on the sea, the bottom is supported by piles, and the bridges are laid with wooden boards as the streets of the village, connecting with the land. A hundred years later, these huts still exist, next to the Penang port, watching the ships come and go, and continue to write legends. Now there are surnames Wang Qiao, Lin Qiao, Zhou Qiao, Chen Qiao, Li Qiao, miscellaneous Qiao Qiao and Yang Qiao. This surname bridge has survived to this day amid the constant debate over whether it should be demolished or not.
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    "Jile Temple Temple of Ultimate Happiness, located in the foothills of Baihe Mountain in Penang. In 1889, it was built by Miaolian Buddhist monk abbot of Yongquan Temple in Gushan, Fuzhou, and served as a courtyard of Yongquan Temple. In 1884, Miaolian was selected as the abbot of Yongquan Temple, and the next year he went out of the Yangyu Law. In 1887, he went to the abbot of Guangfu Palace in Penang Island. In 1889, Miaolian built a temple called Jile Temple. After five years of building, local overseas Chinese launched an expansion of the temple, and Miaolian also stepped up fundraising to all parts of Nanyang. After years of efforts, the Temple of Heavenly Kings, the Hall of the Great Hall, the Fatang, the Tibetan Economic Building, the Xiangji Cabinet, the Bell Tower, the Drum Tower, the release pool and the flower dock are spectacular. Now the mountain is in the trend, the magnificent temple has covered an area of 12 hectares. On the left-back hill platform of the temple stands a 10,000 Buddha tower about 30 meters high. The tower is divided into 7 floors, and its design combines three different architectural styles of China, Thailand and Myanmar. A large view of the sound is carved on a hill not far from the tower, which is more than 10 meters high and has a beautiful posture. There is a release pool on the side of the Dashi Temple. The pool is divided into two levels, the upper and lower are fish ponds and the lower are turtle ponds. The turtles in the turtle pond are huge in shape and dense in size, with hundreds of them attracting countless tourists to watch and feed."
    Ayer Itam
    6.3km from downtown
    Highlights: The Kek Lok Temple in Penang was first built in 1890 and took 20 years to complete. It has since been expanded and is still being rebuilt. There is an inscription "Haitian Buddha Pond" on the forehead of the courtyard, and there are many inscriptions on the stone wall. A large stone in the center of a lotus pond in Huawu is engraved with "Don't Forget Your Homeland", which was written by Kang Youwei in June 1900. The colorful buildings in the temple are row upon row. There are ten thousand scriptures in the Tibetan Sutra Building. The Ten Thousand Buddhas Pagoda in the backyard has a very wonderful design. The Leifeng Pagoda in the legend is similar. There are marble Buddha statues and Buddha statues with gold foil all over the tower on each floor. The Four King Kong and Maitreya Buddha are quite eye-catching, with different sitting, standing and lying postures. Penang Kek Lok Temple, as a place for Internet celebrities to take pictures, is very popular with tourists from all over the world.
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    4.9/5
    107 Review
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    "This is a virgin forest. The ecology inside is very good and there are not many people. I am particularly surprised that the whole plank road is on the tree end. It is really a canopy walk. There should be quite a lot of animals inside, but we went in the afternoon. I heard that it was too hot. The animals came out at night. It is worth visiting slowly in the woods, deep breathing negative oxygen ions, very relaxing and comfortable!"
    Northeast Penang Island
    7km from downtown
    Highlights: • Get up close to nature and visit world-class eco-tourism attractions.• Take a stroll on the canopy trail and breathe in the fresh mountain air.• Go deep into the rainforest reserve and appreciate the beauty of the ancient virgin tropical rainforest.△ Get close to nature and learn about the rich and diverse ecology of animals and plants.How to get there:△ Embark on the canopy trail and take in the spectacular scenery around you from the best viewing position.△ Enjoy the breeze and views as you zipline across the rainforest.
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    "It's a nice visit. Nice views from the top. You can buy tickets including only the top, no need to pay for entering the amusement park things."
    George Town
    210m from downtown
    Highlights: TheTOPPenang, where you can go to Tech Park, Jurrasic Park, and have fun with the kids. There is the small Penang Architecture Museum and the durian museum. There are different playgrounds to enjoy. After playing with all the equipment, you can go to the 65th and 68th floors and enjoy the view from the very tall buildings in Penang.
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FAQ

What Best Things to Do are there in Northeast Penang Island?
These are all Best Things to Do in Northeast Penang Island:Penang Hill, Pantai Batu Feringghi, Penang Street Art, Rainbow Skywalk, Penang Attractions, Komtar
What are some highly-rated Best Things to Do in Northeast Penang Island?
Some highly-rated Best Things to Do in Northeast Penang Island include:Penang Hill:4.4, Pantai Batu Feringghi:4.5, Penang Street Art:4.7, Rainbow Skywalk, Penang Attractions:4.7, Komtar:4.3
At what locations in Northeast Penang Island can Best Things to Do in Northeast Penang Island be found?
The Best Things to Do in Northeast Penang Island are mainly located in:Penang Hill:Northeast Penang Island, Pantai Batu Feringghi:Batu Ferringhi, Penang Street Art:George Town, Rainbow Skywalk, Penang Attractions:George Town, Komtar:George Town
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