Batu Caves

Trip Start Aug 19, 2006
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Trip End Sep 01, 2007


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Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Our first trip out of the city (well, 13 kilometres away) was to the Batu Caves, 'discovered' around 1880 by an Englishman and used by Hindus as a location for Malaysia's most important temple since then.

A huge statue and a marble-floored temple guards the entrance, and then it's up about 300 steps to the entrance of a huge 200m high cave in which there are several small temples, most of them looking quite new and not too exciting.

Once a year a festival procession sets out from central KL to here, with believers doing penitence themselves by sticking metal skewers through their tongues and cheeks or pulling chariots by hooks in their backs. Nothing of that when we visited thankfully, just some cheeky monkeys along the steps.
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