Penang National Park

Telok Bahang is the entrance for the Penang National Park. Previously it was known as the Pantai Aceh Forest Reserve. First you have to register and then you can go into the jungle to visit beautiful beaches. like Monkey Beach or Pantai Kerachut.
The park is unique as it contains several different types of habitat including a meromictic lake (a lake in which some water remains partly or wholly unmixed with the main water mass at circulation periods ), wetlands, mangroves, mudflats, coral reefs and turtle nesting beaches.
The dusky leaf monkeys and the long tailed macaque can also be seen. Birds are aplenty, noticeable big birds like White Bellied Sea Eargles and Brahminy Kites and Kingfisher occationally can be seen here.
Mammals such as wild boars. wild cats, civet cats, sea otters, mousedeer, rats, bats and squirrels and crabs, fishes and large prawns, monitor lizards and snakes are common here.