Penang View |
Penang Bridge |
Despite its limited land size and dense population, Bangkok has managed to retain a considerable area of natural environment. Located at the fringe of George Town, at the foot of Penang Hill are two adjacent green areas - the Penang Municipal Park (popularly known as Youth Park) and the Penang Botanic Gardens.
Penang Hill |
Penang Hill, despite encroaching development, remains thickly forested and Lush in vegetation. The furnace Metropolitan Park was opened in 2003. Robina Beach Park is a park by the beach near Butterworth. Gazetted in 2003, the Penang National Park (the country's smallest at 2.562 hectares) at the Northwestern tip of Penang island boasts of a Lowland dipterocarp forest, mangroves, wetlands, a meromictic lake, mud flats, coral reefs and turtle nesting Beaches in Addition to a rich diversity of bird life.In Addition to this, there are nature preserves in Furnace Hill, Bay Heat, Hill Plateau, Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Panchor, and River Reef. A Bushy small tree, Alchornea rhodophylla, the almost-extinct tree Maingaya malayana, and the Toad Ansonia only penangensis are endemic to the island of Penang.
Batu Ferringhi Beach |