Tua Pek Kong Temple Tanjong Tokong — Local services in George Town

The Tuan Pek Kong/Thai Pak Koong [the spelling varies depending on which Chinese dialect one speaks!! The seaside area has amazing historical, gastronomic, cultural as well as religious elements... The temple-- founded in 1799-- is located before as well as in the large car park. On the western side of the car park are restaurants and food stalls specialising in fish and seafood [there is a substantial fishing village there]! One the white sand beach there are "plant sculptures" of animals and birds/peacocks. The are also many "Chinese and animal themed "stone sculptures. Of historical interest, there are several concrete "bunkers" built by the Japanese as coastal defences. Two can be readily accessed, and are a great place to avoid the hot sun and take interesting photos! Anyone who says there is nothing to see is "very short sighted"!!! IT IS A...

At night, the rope-like-lights attached to the trees will be turned on. This will made it looked like a surreal bioluminiscent world, drawing comparison with the fictional moon Pandora as depicted in James Cameron’s 2009 blockbuster flick ‘Avatar’. This has become an attraction for the temple, drawing hundreds of locals and tourists a day. Beside that, there's a beach with a tower beside it for you to take the picture of the beach/sea from a higher angle. But of course, to park here you must pay a parking fee of RM 5.00. But however, if you park and visit Thai Pak Koong Temple in the morning, there's no need to pay the parking fee. I hope this review will help you in planning your trip to...

I think all visitor can totally banned《Avatar Garden》now, it is totally not worth for photoshooting, From start i thought the guy there just taking parking fees only, RM3 is reasonable & i'm ok with it. Later up he open his big mouth ask is it shoot model, prewedding or any shooting, later up he open the price as below:-

Rm3 morning parking Rm5 afternoon parking Rm30 seaside shooting Rm50 Avatar Garden shooting Rm300 prewedding shooting

To a open seaside nearby they also consider is their coverage area, really stupid to said that it is a NOT to promote 《Avatar Garden》 anymore. Really dissapointed about Penang deers so called...