Private Tour: Full Day Center Penang Island Tour
Description
Enjoy the best of Penang on a private day tour with a local English speaking guide. Discovering its heritage buildings and temples and enjoy the fantastic aerial views at Penang Hills. With a knowledgeable guide, admire Buddhist temples, see beautiful Kuan Yin Statue at Kek Lok Si Temple and admire local market with various delicious hawker food.
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Itinerary
Our tour guide will pick you up around 9am from your hotel lobby head to Wat Chayamangkalaram, located at George Town. The Reclining Buddha Temple is also known as the Sleeping Buddha by the locals. Behind the Reclining Buddha, you can see there are many niches, containing the ashes of devotees. There is also a small Thai village and Thai cemetery just behind the temple. You will spend some time here to appreciate this beautiful temple and peaceful atmosphere before proceed to Dhammikarama Burmese Buddhist Temple.
Dhammikarama Burmese Buddhist Temple, the first Buddhist temple in Penang, built in 1805. There's a series of panel paintings on the life of the Buddha lining the walkways, the characters dressed in typical Burmese costume, while inside typically round-eyed, serene-faced Burmese Buddha statues stare out at worshipers.
Next, proceed to Penang Botanical Garden, also known as the Waterfall Gardens because of the cascading waterfall nearby. Many visitors and locals visit the garden to escape the heat of the busy city and enjoy walks or relax in the tranquil gardens.
After lunch, we continue our day tour to Penang Hill. Upon arrival, you will take a funicular train up to the hill top and get a bird eye view of Penang Island. Habitat is located next to the Hindu temple and we strongly recommend you go there and look carefully for the breathtaking views. Once we return back to the ground, we visit to Ayer Itam Market to experience the local lifestyle or buy some souvenir. If time permitting, stop at the hawker stall for famous Penang Assam Laksa (at your own expenses).
Next move on to Kek Lok Si Temple, you will see the 36.5 meter high bronze statue of Kuan Yin (Guanyin), the Goddess of Mercy. After spending some time walking around the Kuan Yin statue, you can take the road to walk down towards the pagoda, which is officially known as Bon Po Thar. Be amazed with the Kek Lok Si Pagoda as how it was built. The base of the pagoda was built in a Chinese style, the center part is Thai and top part is Burmese. Take some beautiful photos, enjoy the peaceful and calm atmosphere with cool breeze before we head down to the ground.
Lastly visit the Pinang Peranakan Mansion, the former house of a Chinese Captain, and see a remarkable collection of memorabilia and artifacts. Once you finished above things our guide will drop off at your hotel/ Cruise port safely.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
We do offer Pickup & drop off all hotels around George town area, Cruise Ship port, Airport. Outside of George town pickup required extra payment.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Reviews(35)
Such a fantastic day. We were greeted on time with a clean car. Mathew was so knowledgeable and accommodating. When we return we will be booking in again
We gave the tour a 4 because the driver was very nice. I had an issue with my eye and he took us to a clinic, which was very helpful. He took us to all the places except the botanical gardens because it was closed due to road construction. We would have liked to learn about the temples we went to, but he was a driver and not a guide. Penang hill had a very long wait time, so we paid extra at the ticket counter for the express line.
It was great to learn more about the city, visit temples and best part was Penang Hill. My tour was from 9:30am to 1:30pm. Enough time to see the sites if it’s your first time.
A very good experience. Matthew was an excellent guide and driver. He was punctual, courteous and showed us everything that we were supposed to see.
Joseph Panf was the best tour guide that we have on this trip. He was very knowledgeable and leaned a ton of the Penang history and culture. The Asam Laksa was out of this world and so delicious. We had two bowls each!! We were lucky to have him as our private tour👍👍🙌
Great tour visiting many different locations throughout Penang. Matt was a wonderful tour guide! He was a great guide, knowledgeable and punctual.
The driver was very good and very accommodating He did everything to make the trip interesting and easy Totally recommend this as the way to see the Island
Very thorough, very knowledgeable, very kind. Very safe driver and works with your preferences. Highly recommend Cheam!
My driver was so helpful and he tailored my day to accommodate my interests as well as my mobility issues.
We had a very dedicated guie, Cheam, who really could tell us about the history of the town, and the history of the buildings and almost everything else. The visit at the mansion was very interesting, beacuse we had so much information. We made good relations with our guide, and had a wonderfull and long day, almost 9 hours. The waiting time at Penang Hills is not good. Please find a better way there and find another place in the city to get the same view. E.g. at the Kek Lok Si temple.
