Kek Lok Si Temple, Air Itam

Great and really beautiful temple. All entrance is free. You only need to pay for parking and if you want to use the cable cars. But everything is also walkable and there is a bus station close. The view to the city is also worth the little hike. The big statue is really big and tall. Which makes it hard to see it fully close as the platform is to small in ratio to the height of the statue. To see all plan around 2 hours. Down besides the first car park is a turtle pond.

Kek Lok Si is a nice and impressive temple that is definitely worth a visit. The temple consists of several layers and is very easy to reach with small elevators (paid). There are men who drive back and forth with electric vans. In the high season I wonder if it is worth visiting the temple, we were there outside the main season and it was already a long wait for the elevators. Once at the top you have a beautiful view of the city and there are ponds with dozens (perhaps hundreds) of turtles to see.

A beautiful Buddhist temple complex with a great view of Penang. It’s worth a visit. Free of charge, however you have to pay to get to the top if you want to get there with an elevator. Still affordable, though. It wasn’t crowded when we were there. Perfect time to visit.

This is a must to visit place! huge Temple, beautiful structures & green forest 🌳 surrounding on the mountain 🏔. Due to the short of timing, I didn’t have enough time to explore everywhere but good enough to share with everyone. I took the cable/elevator up there with paid a small fee. Suggested for those with children & elderly. I was able to see the few big Statuses on top of mountain & few small/big temples in different level grounds. Beautiful mountain view & garden 🪴. Actually there were so many things to see. Quite attractive to me that was a turtle 🐢 pond at the front entrance, so impressive to see such a big population of these ❤️🐢! I would suggest to spend entire day to enjoy this temple & street food vendors surrounding areas.

I didn't expect this temple area to be that huge & so inclined. It has several separated areas that are connected by asphalt road (no pedestrian), but you can definitely ask the grab driver to drive you directly to the top, the main pagoda. When I went there, there was a location that was burnt & renovated...so we couldn't see anything on that part. The top pagoda was really huge and the view from the top was amazing. But other than that, I didn't really find this place to be a must-see...