The temple is located on Penang Island near Georgetown. This is a large temple or really a series of temples and is still under contruction, and has been ever since the 1890's. It was too big to get a sense of with the camera.
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Batu Caves
A huge limestone cave, 400 metres long and 100 metres high, a sacred site for Hindus in Malaysia. This is where the Thaipusam festival is held and nearly a million visitors come to the caves, and pierce their skin (see link above). The festival had just ended few days before we arrived. There were still a few devotees climbing the 272 stairs to the entrance and lots of monkeys.
A huge limestone cave, 400 metres long and 100 metres high, a sacred site for Hindus in Malaysia. This is where the Thaipusam festival is held and nearly a million visitors come to the caves, and pierce their skin (see link above). The festival had just ended few days before we arrived. There were still a few devotees climbing the 272 stairs to the entrance and lots of monkeys.
Kuala Lumpur, capitol city of Malaysia
We stayed for four nights, it's a big, busy city that you get caught up in.
Street views, yes the cars just drive through the mobs of people.
The view of the street at dusk below our hotel, the Season's View.
An outdoor bar, where the men are indulged with excessive attention from the servers who sit with them. It was quite entertaining and they actually played some hip-hop.
Krista
Me
Malaysia is a multi-cultural muslim country, with native Malay, Hindu (Indian) and Buddist (Chinese) making up the population. Recent tensions caused the Indians to riot in November in Kuala Lunpur, against government policies that favour Native Malays for subsidized housing and government jobs.
We stayed for four nights, it's a big, busy city that you get caught up in.
Street views, yes the cars just drive through the mobs of people.
The view of the street at dusk below our hotel, the Season's View.
An outdoor bar, where the men are indulged with excessive attention from the servers who sit with them. It was quite entertaining and they actually played some hip-hop.
Krista
Me
Lizzie
To be fair, we got some atttention from other patrons...this is the cook who worked across the street and came over on his break, and a local fellow who insisted on buying us a beer.
The famous Petronas towers, until recently the tallest buildings in the world.
A building shaped like a traditional Malaysian drum.
A gymnastics performance at a huge mall. I am looking down from the fifith floor. Each foor probably had a thousand stores or kiosks. It was a bit overwhelming, it took Lizzie and I an hour to find a PC place, even with the help of directories and people pointing the way.
Twenty golden hula-hoops.
To be fair, we got some atttention from other patrons...this is the cook who worked across the street and came over on his break, and a local fellow who insisted on buying us a beer.
A building shaped like a traditional Malaysian drum.
A gymnastics performance at a huge mall. I am looking down from the fifith floor. Each foor probably had a thousand stores or kiosks. It was a bit overwhelming, it took Lizzie and I an hour to find a PC place, even with the help of directories and people pointing the way.
Twenty golden hula-hoops.
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