Countryside Cycling Tour. T1.0 by Matahari

We uphold originality, quality, safety, companionship, and trust, and maintain a passion for being the best. We are here to make something rarely offered in Malaysia conveniently available to you. The brand is a small, 100 percent locally-owned company representing a team of highly motivated, innovative, adventurous, experienced, and fun-loving people. The dazzling line-up cares for local communities, wildlife, mountains, jungles, forests, and rivers. Our team’s primary focus is the rural livelihood and real-life outdoor experiences. Our tour products provide authentic local offerings, creating profound holiday encounters and ensuring a meaningful and transformative travel experience. We chose a more challenging field of responsibility and sustainability. We honour ordinary rural matters by making vital recognition to their economic sectors. When joining our tours, you use tourism to create an undeniably positive impact and value social benefits to our local communities.

1. 1

   Balik Pulau

   1 hour

   Join this exceptional Malaysian cycling adventure that lifts you off on an endless parade of rustic experiences. Your escapade through the bucolic side of Penang Island provides breathtaking scenery with the opportunity to connect with ordinary folks, taste the simple lifestyle or even try out your hands on local tasks and trades. Your cycling adventure in the first sector sets you off with a gradual approach and provides you with a rare opportunity to witness our diverse culture and ethnic race. Navigating on trails and back paths that run along waterways towards contrasting hamlets, villages, and farmlands lands you an opportunity to witness the local community while being entertained by our guide and the ever-gracious countryside folks.

2. 2

   Balik Pulau

   1.5 hours

   After a short stop for coffee at a Hakka Chinese hamlet, the second sector restarts with an approach to the fisherman's outpost at a river mouth. The trip turns around to cover further distances as we set you to encompass different landscapes. Roam on the extensive network of trails snaking the palm oil estate in search of the labourers to get an inside story about the two-edged tales of this controversial commodity. Watch out! Herds of wild cows can easily get startled, stampede alongside us, and sometimes might change their direction into crossing our path. We then cross a Hokkien Chinese hamlet famed among locals for its cuisines. Viral by social media, at times this place is bustling with local visitors from across the country as they try to get a taste of all the exquisite assortments this place has to offer.

3. 3

   Balik Pulau

   1.5 hours

   Getting off to a calmer side, we ride to the rice field. The vast plains composed a picturesque view intensified by the species of birds dotting the muddy paddy plots, others flying across as raptors circling in the skies. Identify the different types of birds and have our guide reveal each of them to you from the endemic to the migratory species. A cosy little hut built for the farmers to rest is our setting of choice to arouse your taste buds. Situated amidst the rice field, you can reach there by the normal route or choose a more fun way by riding on the bund separating the paddy plots. On the menu, the dishes introduced to you are carefully chosen and each of them is from our selected vendors. These are the best from Balik Pulau and top those found in the other parts of the island. Some mentioned that this tour is partially a food tour and it is the only food tour that you needed to experience in Penang.

4. 4

   Balik Pulau

   30 min

   Relaxing and soothing at this cosy little hut, claim your deserving time by spending some precious moments refreshed by the tranquillity with the absence of the tense world outside. Restart your ride to end your journey with fond and nostalgic memories. Oh ya! If it rains, it will add a lot more fun to your activity.

• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Children Friendly
• Childs Bicycle Seat available upon request

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.