Penang Hills and Trails - East Central Area

Penang Hills and Trails - East Central Area
Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

Click here for the Penang Hills and Trails index.
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and Catchment Areas (updated 1st March 2025).
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Plastic Pollution - An unacceptable way of marking trails (updated 12th February 2023)

East Central Area

Bukit Relau (February 2013)	University Challenge (February 2013)	The Dogs' Home (February 2013)	Pulau Jerejak South East 1 (14th March 2017)	Pulau Jerejak Hike (14th March 2017)
Pulau Jerejak North West (14th March 2017)	Pulau Jerejak South East 2 (11th December 2017)	Pulau Jerejak Misguided Tour (10th February 2020)	Bukit Mertajam (18th February 2020)	Bukit Kukus (5th March 2020)

The aim of these pages is to record our pleasure, encourage others to repeat or even improve the experience and provide sufficient information for locals and visitors to follow the trails from scratch. Hence, there are far too many pictures of junctions in concrete trails! These trails are best enjoyed in small groups of no more than half a dozen with eyes and ears wide open and mouths firmly shut. Several can be, and are, used by mountain bikers, but if you have a motorbike please leave it at home or park it at the start of the trail; definitely do not take it (as I have read on the web) on trails which are not sealed, they will rapidly degrade if abused in such a manner.

I strongly recommend using buses to get to the starting points and back from the end of these walks.
I have written a short guide to Penang's Buses for hikers (updated 6th October 2022).