Bujang Valley, Sungai Batu and Mangrove Discovery
0800 hours - Pick-up from hotels around the Georgetown area.
0830 hours - Depart for Bujang Valley. The journey takes about 1.5 hours.
1000 hours - Visit the archaeological museums and the remnants of the Chandi, ancient Hindu and Buddhist temple structures built between the 5th and 10th centuries as Buddhist stupas, and later between the 11th and 14th centuries as Hindu shrines.
1130 hours - Visit the Sungai Batu archaeological site, a highly structured industrial hub for iron smelting and production. Dozens of clay-brick smelting workshops and earthen kilns were found here. River jetties and administrative port buildings were also discovered, indicating that this was once an important trading hub.
1245 hours - Depart for lunch.
1415 hours - Depart for a short visit to the nearby mangrove swamp.
1530 hours - Depart back to Penang Island.
