The pavement ends abruptly at the west end of Gertak Sanggul village in the southwest corner of the Penang Island, Malaysia. Here begins an overgrown path, first paved with concrete the width of a foot or two, but thereafter the pavement deteriorates and eventually disappears altogether. In places there are piles of broken concrete suggesting a paved path once lead all the way across this remote southwest corner of mountainous terrain contouring high above the sea.
There are no villages, only an occasional solitary homestead or a cabin deep in the jungle, where a handful of local farmers grow nutmeg and bananas.
At the tail end of the path where it begins to zig zag downhill to the first settlement, there is a rubber plantation, and past it at km 13, once down from the hills, a paved road (P234) brings you to the village of Betong. Past Betong, P234 becomes P16, which at Tamang Sempurna merges with H6.
From Cycling Malaysia