Air Hitam Dalam Educational Forest or popularly known as Air Hitam Dalam Recreational Forest is a fresh water swamp with a size of approximately 11 hectres. Air Hitam Dalam literally means Deep Black Water. The name could probably meant the river beside this park was deep and bottomless.
Facilities available are Walkway, resthut, hanging bridge, observation towers, toilet and shed.
Located at Sungai Dua, Butterworth, in the Seberang Perai North District of Penang or North Province Wellesley.
Hanging bridge at the park
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Source : The Star
Wednesday January 2, 2008
Park opening delayed until April
Park opening delayed until April
THE RM650,000 upgrading work on the Air Itam recreation park near Sungai Dua, Butterworth, which is home to some 100 species of flora and fauna has been completed but it is still closed to the public.
Sungai Dua assemblyman Datuk Jasmin Muhammad said the park could not be opened to allow construction of an underpass along the new Jalan Nyior Sebatang road leading to the park.
He said the underpass costing about RM125,000 was expected to be ready in April.
Jasmin (foreground)walking on the newly refurbished canopy walk at Taman Rekreasi Air Itam“We hope to open the park to the public when the underpass is ready. The state Forestry Department will manage the park.
“Previously, it was managed by the Air Itam Village Security and Development Committee which charged RM1 each for those wanting to visit the park.
“However, they were unable to maintain it as maintenance was too costly,” he said during a visit to the park recently.
Jasmin said the wooden beams supporting the 1,000m walkway within the park had been replaced with concrete beams.
He said he had also applied for allocations to tar the parking area in the park to accommodate more vehicles, including tour buses.
“We also want to build public toilets and stalls selling souvenirs at the entrance of the park,” he said. He said visitors to the park would not be charged any fee.
He added that he would propose to the state Forestry Department to allocate some area within the park for the construction of chalets and a multi-purpose hall.
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