{"id":4659,"date":"2026-01-10T12:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/?p=4659"},"modified":"2026-01-10T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T04:10:46","slug":"visiting-penang-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/2026\/01\/10\/visiting-penang-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting Penang Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of my visit to Penang last year, I took a trip to Penang Hill. Locally, it was spring, and the morning mist hung thick in the air, meaning that visibility was poor; we could certainly not see any of the surrounding area below the hill or out to the horizon. After disembarking from the tram at the top of the hill, there was lush foliage\u2014and no small amount of flowers\u2014everywhere.<\/p>\n

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Penang Hill rainforest, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Penang Hill flowers, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Penang Hill flowers, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill flowers, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill flower, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are several buildings at the top of the hill, including various temples. The area is moderately level, with narrow roads and some vehicles. A mild breeze was blowing, and I managed to get a picture of a Malaysian flag through the mist.<\/p>\n

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Malaysian flag on Penang Hill, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Further walking revealed more jungle and more flowers. Perhaps it was the elevation, but it did not feel as humid here as it did closer to sea level.<\/p>\n

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Penang Hill rainforest, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill rainforest, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill ferns, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill flora, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill flowers, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill flora, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill flowers, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penang
Penang Hill flowers, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The mist cleared by late morning, and I was able to shoot the city below the hill on the way back down to the town centre.<\/p>\n

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Penang cityscape, October 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For those of you with a technical interest in photography, you will have noticed how smoothly the Nikkor AF-S 18\u201370 mm f\/3.5\u20134.5 lens rendered out-of-focus areas (the quality of ‘bokeh’) in the flower photographs above. Part of this will be down to using the lens appropriately (e.g., lighting falling evenly onto the background) and part of this will be down to the optical design and construction of the lens itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As part of my visit to Penang last year, I took a trip to Penang Hill. Locally, it was spring, and the morning mist hung thick in the air, meaning that visibility was poor; we could certainly not see any of the surrounding area below the hill or out to the horizon. After disembarking from… Continue reading Visiting Penang Hill<\/span> →<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[324,59,173,503,510],"class_list":["post-4659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-flowers","tag-malaysia","tag-nikkor-afs-18-70-3-5-4-5-dx","tag-penang","tag-penang-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4659"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4659\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ywo.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}