The most misleadingly named destination in Penang is about 3km before the airport. Yes, there are snakes at the temple but, c'mon, with a name like that you expect beating drums and mad monks wielding 20-foot vipers. In reality it's just a temple with some snakes sleeping on sticks. The several resident venomous Wagler's pit vipers and green tree snakes are said to be slightly stoned by the incense smoke drifting around the temple during the day, but at night they slither down to eat the offerings and apparently throw a huge party, leaving them too messed up to do anything but lay around all the next day. There's a very depressing snake exhibition with tanks containing various snakes in a walled-off section, and a few bored-looking snake handlers who will charge RM30 for taking your photo holding a snake.
Bus 302 runs every 30 minutes from Weld Quay and Komtar and passes the temple (RM4).
