Location : 7km from Penang Bridge Toll Plaza ; 7km from Butterworth Ferry Terminal
Parking : Free Parking for coaches and cars
Admission Fee : Adults RM20.00, Children RM10.00 (under 12 years), Camera RM1.00
Opening Hours : Open daily 9am-7pm ( Last entry at 6.30pm)
Bird Park Restaurant (Flamingo Cottage) : Open daily 9.30am-6.30pm
Address : Jalan Todak, Seberang Jaya, 13700 Perai, Penang Malaysia
Tel : 604-399 1899
Fax : 604-399 1898
Bird Show Daily : at 11.30am & 3.30pm , followed by photography session.

Transportation :

# Transit Link ply regularly from Butterworth Ferry Terminal to Penang Bird Park
# Buses also ply regularly from KOMTAR to Penang Bird Park

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The mainland section of Penang state is a thriving industrial area built and is nearly twice as large as the island. Seberang Perai (Butterworth) has become one of the world’s leading producers of microchips, disk drives and other computer parts. Both sides of the North-South Highway and the approach to the Penang Bridge are covered with sprawling high-tech factories. Amid the factories, in Seberang Jaya, east of Seberang Perai, is the Penang Bird Park.

Transportation :
It can be reached in 10 mins from the Ferry terminals by bus, or 5 minutes drive from the Penang Bridge toll plaza. Driving along the North-South Highways - turn off at Seberang Jaya interjuntions, following the road signs to Butterworth. Or take special bus from Komtar direct to Seberang Jaya. Free parking for all cars and coaches.
Admission Fee :

Adult - RM 10
Children (below 12 year-old) - RM 5
School Children (with school uniform) - RM 2
Camera - RM 1
Physically and/or mentally handicapped & under privileged persons are allowed free entrance

Opening Hours : 9.00am - 7.00pm including weekends & all Public Holidays.
Address: Jalan Todak, Seberang Jaya, 13700 Perai, Penang, Malaysia.
Tel : 604-399 1899
Fax : 604-399 1899

It is a lush garden with over 200 species of tropical birds from around the world. The birds are all housed in specially designed homes, including a hugh walk-in aviary and geodesic domes.

Another patch of green is the 37-hectare (92-acre) Bukit Mertajam Recreational Park, about 18km (11 miles) from the Penang Bridge. It has numerous walking trails for trekkers and rest huts when you tire. Near its entrance is the stark white St Anne’s Church, a well-preserved 19th-century colonial relic. It is the site of a candlelight procession each year on the Feast of St Anne’s in late July.

St Anne’s Church

Heading north from Batu Maung, you will pass behind the airport and cut through the Bayan Lepas Free Trade Zone, the Silicon Valley of Malaysia. The high-technology industries ranging from microchip-manufacturing multinationals such as Intel, to success-hungry export-orientated local giants.

These factories have now completely hemmed in the Temple of Azure Cloud, more popularly known as the Snake Temple. Here, venomous pit vipers, doped perhaps by the incense, lie coiled around everything : altars, shrines, incense burners, candlesticks, vases, tables, underfoot and overhead. However, the air mystery surrounding the temple, and the reason why the reptiles would congregate here has vanished, together with the lush jungle behind it ; today the temple is now just another commercial attraction.

Snake Temple

Heading to east coast, you will reach Batu Maung which is located about 3km (2miles) from the Bayan Lepas Airport. At there, you will see a shrine built around a footprint in stone, believed to that of Admiral Cheng Ho, the Chinese Columbus. The well-kept shrine sits in a beautiful Chinese garden that overlooks the jetty and fishing boats of the village.

Villagers belive that Cheng Ho called at this spot on one of his seven voyages to Southeast Asia. On Pulau Langkawi, 96km (60miles) further north, is a similar footprint. The two are believed to be a pair, and anyone who lights incense sticks and places them in the urns at the shrine will enjoy good luck and great fortune.

There are couples of large restaurants here which are famous for their seafood. Walk down from the shrine past the eatery next door, and you’ll come to a garden of incongruous statues, ranging from mythical Indian and Chinese gods, to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the Statue of Liberty. The garden is neglected, which is sad, for the choice and juxtapositioning of these figures is an ironically accurate summary of Malaysian life.

If you are heading south of Penang Island, the scenery gives way to paddy fields. Several small roads branch off to the coast, usually the commercial link between a fishing village and the trunk road. It was in small villages such as these that the few Malays lived when Francis Light established the first settlement.

The kampung houses still look like the same as they did 100 years ago even though they are updated with brick. It is worth-while turning off into the coconut tree-lined paths to explore a village. Malays are proud of their homes, and many have pretty courtyards planted with flowers and fruit trees.

The winding and sometimes mountainous round-island road runs for 74km (46miles), a journey you can cover in air-conditioned buses with guides, or rented chauffeured cars with or without guides.

The road throught the rolling hills offers striking views of the island dropping to the sea far below. Dense, damp jungles are interspersed with the plantations of pepper, clove and nutmeg that lured Arab, Spanish, Portugese and other Western traders to this part of the world long ago. When in season, nets are spread out below the durian trees in the orchards, to prevent damage to the fruit, which drops when ripe. Visitors throng the temporary roadside stalls, savouring the pungent flesh or haggling over prices.

At Titi Kerawang, there are waterfalls and a serene view of the Indian Ocean. The natural freshwater pool is filled from the waterfalls, and is suitable for bathing, although a big water pipeline mars the scenery.